Sociology: death and dying

In a revised and updated edition, this book continues the debate on whether transplantable organs of executed capital felons should be used to save lives.

The Executioner's Toll, 2010 is a meticulous examination of every execution (and the details surrounding the execution) carried out in a single year--and a thought-provoking exploration into the minds of 46 killers as each plays the role of predator, quarry and condemned.

Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses.

For many, a mummy is an Egyptian pharaoh, wrapped in cloth, found thousands of years later in a pyramid by archaeologists.

This book explores conceptions of the soul and the afterlife that are consistent with the findings of modern science.

This book is a cultural tour of the burial places of Southern musicians.

Does bodily death mean the complete destruction of a person?

During his playing career, a baseball player's every action on the field is documented--every at bat, every hit, every pitch.

This work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the entertainment industry's trade journal), but also drawing attention from mainstream news media.

Between 1623 and 1960 (the date of the last execution as of 1999), Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont legally put to death more than 700 men and women for a wide variety of capital crimes ranging from army desertion to murder.

"e;Here lyes Buried the Body of MARTHA PERONNEAU.

The traditions associated with a pope's death have changed from when they were buried in the catacombs of Rome.

Death is a hard topic to talk about, but exploring it openly can lead to a new understanding about how to live.

Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?

As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies.

This is an in depth yet accessible study of human decapitation burials in Roman Britain.

This is an in depth yet accessible study of human decapitation burials in Roman Britain.

'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN'A marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their plans dissolve in dust' NEW YORK TIMESIn thirteen chapters, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal for their architects - architects who either killed themselves or are rumoured to have done so.

AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 'Start the Week' : 'very moving - brilliant and profound'"e;Brilliant - a grimly humorous yet humane account of the realities of growing old in the modern age.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken' Bernardine Evaristo'Vital, moving and courageous, this is a debut not to be missed' Guardian__________Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonc 's Lemonade and Black Is King.

In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs contemplates old age and death.

**Winner of Author of The Year at The Butterfly (Baby Loss) Awards**For all parents and family managing the emotional battlefield of baby loss.

'Utterly gripping' - The Guardian 'Fascinating' - The Sunday Times 'Moving' - Scotsman 'Engrossing' - Financial Times Sue Black confronts death every day.

'I have yet to come away from reading [Bering's] work and not feel considerably better informed than I was minutes before' (Forbes)__________________This penetrating analysis aims to demystify a subject that knows no cultural or demographic boundaries.

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**'Rattling.

Raymond Moody is the 'grandfather' of contemporary investigation into the Near Death Experience and the After Death Experience.

This early work by Sigmund Freud was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal Green, to melancholy islands and surprisingly lively ossuaries .

After a long, frightening journey, a Seeker of Truth reaches the top of a mountain and finds the cave of the Wise One.

Embracing the Teardrops: A Simple, Step-by-Step Guide to Planninga Funeral That Is Dignified, Memorable, and Affordable guides thereader through one of lifes most difficult experiences: handling the death,final arrangements, and funeral of a loved one.

"e;The word death is not pronounced in New York, in Paris, in London, because it burns the lips.

The terminal diagnosis is given, the knock on the door comes, and someone you love is dying or has just died.

"e;I thought you are stuck at the Railway Station.

'A refreshingly original meditation.

How many minutes can you survive after cardiac arrest?

This is a wonderful book: curious and insightful Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller s Guide to Medieval EnglandWe know what happens to the body when we die, but what happens to the soul?

From Dylan Thomas s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work.

Many books have been written on the subject of death and dying over the last twenty-five years, yet none provides a comprehensive spiritual paradigm combined with practical guidance for resounding effectively and compassionately to be most common difficulties and challenges of the dying.

Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live.

Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live.

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize'Unforgettable' - Anne Tyler'Stunningly original' - GuardianOne long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado.

Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director.

The facts of life and death remain the same.

Having a good death is our final human right, argues Sandra Martin in this updated and expanded version of her bestselling and award-winning social history of the right to die movement in Canada and around the world.

Moira Farr discovered Daniel Jones' body on Valentine's Day, 1994.

At the end of the First World War, countries across Europe participated in an unprecedented ritual in which a single, anonymous body was buried to symbolize the overwhelming trauma of the battlefields.

Death has popularly had the reputation of being the last of life's great mysteries, a subject of speculation, and as a foreboding event both inevitable, and feared.

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year.

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year.

Cemetery and landscape studies have been hallmarks of North African archaeology for more than one hundred years.