Sociology: death and dying

Choosing How We Die compels the reader to see his or her own journey through the dying process as something we can only consider when we are healthy and as a gift to those we leave behind after we are physically dead.

A shocking and powerful account of lynching written by activist, journalist, and former slave Ida B.

Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying.

In a single decade, AIDS has grown to pandemic proportions.

Social Palliation is a pioneering study on living and dying as articulated by first-generation Iranian and Ismaili Muslim communities in Canada.

Social Palliation is a pioneering study on living and dying as articulated by first-generation Iranian and Ismaili Muslim communities in Canada.

Dying and Death in Canada provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective.

Dying and Death in Canada provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective.

"e;An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss"e; from the National Book Award-winning author of Becoming a Man (Publishers Weekly).

The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity.

Mortality remains a taboo topic in much of Western society, but death and violence continue to be staples of popular television.

Through a detailed and fascinating exploration of changing medical knowledge and practice, this book provides a timeline of humankind's understanding of physiological death.

In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths.

This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina's historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States.

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew.

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2018, including movie icon Burt Reynolds, "e;Queen of Soul"e; Aretha Franklin, celebrity chef and food critic Anthony Bourdain, bestselling novelist Anita Shreve and influential Chicago blues artist Otis Rush.

Nineteenth-century Victorian-era mourning rituals--long and elaborate public funerals, the wearing of lavishly somber mourning clothes, and families posing for portraits with deceased loved ones--are often depicted as bizarre or scary.

The theme of death is an essential component of film narrative, particularly in how it affects the hero.

The bones of Hawaii's King Kamehameha the Great were hidden at night in a secret location.

In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture.

When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind.

North Carolina sent more than 125,000 men and boys to fight the Civil War.

In the five state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri, 1027 men and women are known to have been legally hanged, gassed or electrocuted for capital crimes during the century after the Civil War.

In the state of Georgia, 1025 men and women are known to have been hanged or electrocuted for capital crimes in the century after the Civil War.

The long history of medical care for the dying has largely been neglected.

For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood.

In the century following the Civil War, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia legally executed hundreds of men and women convicted of capital crimes.

Presented in chronological order, this book provides essential details about the 1,152 men and women who were legally put to death in North and South Carolina during the century after the Civil War.

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.

Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology.

Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology.

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.