Sociology: death and dying

Death comes for us all in the end.

Grief is a universal emotion.

'Too frequently, we leave it too late to start to think - but a crisis is never the best time for careful thought.

The basis for the wonderfully funny and moving TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions.

In his long and distinguished career, Irvin D.

Where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from?

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize ';The most entertaining writer in science' The Times, Books of the Year War.

How have people sought to understand loss and bereavement?

Does bodily death mean the complete destruction of a person?

Fear of death is primal and universal, an inexorable part of the human condition.

In dieser Arbeit werden die zentralen Bestandteile des Lebens - Tod, Verlust und Trauer – aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln beleuchtet.

Tod und Sterben sind noch immer Themen, welche in unserer leistungsorientierten Gesellschaft tabuisiert und gemieden werden.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling the construction of "e;digital ghosts"e;: algorithmic reconstructions of deceased individuals based on patterns of interaction in their text messages, social media posts, and other personal data.

Die offiziellen Debatten um Sterbehilfe offenbaren ein skandalöses Maß an Arroganz und Bevormundung seitens der machthabenden Eliten.

Este libro busca presentar, desde una perspectiva informada, todo lo que tiene que ver con un fenómeno difícil de explicar desde la comprensión humana, a saber, las experiencias cercanas a la muerte.

Are we accepting of death, or in denial of it?

This title was originally published in 1973.

This title was originally published in 1973.

Are we accepting of death, or in denial of it?

In Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and with the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis.

Since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic, the virus has caused more than 1 million deaths in the United States and 7 million deaths worldwide.

While death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place are fundamental in shaping how it is experienced by the individual.