Sociology: death and dying

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.

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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.

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.

Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement.

How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives.

To date, mourning has not featured prominently in studies of ancient Roman society, and this book redresses this by presenting a comprehensive analysis of who mourners were and what mourners did, as well as investigating the social, cultural and ritual significance of mourning.

How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives.

Since legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide as medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in 2016, Canada has witnessed an internationally unprecedented expansion of the practice, making it the country with the highest number of MAiD deaths.

Considering the potential and peril of Domestic Abuse-Related Death Reviews (DARDRs) in England and Wales as a way of learning from domestic abuserelated deaths, this book examines what DARDRs - first known as Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) - are understood as being for, what is used by and in DARDRs, and how DARDRs are themselves used.

William Wharton turns his microscopic gaze on his own life to narrate and scrutinize the untimely deaths of his daughter and her family.

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.

Whatever our background, bias, or beliefs, there is one truth to which each is bound and from which none can escape: sooner or later, we will die.

The man inside of this crepuscular husk is being methodically erased.

The Bell Jar (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Sylvia Plath Making the reading experience fun!

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

Its both moving and wonderful.

«Erneuerung von innen nach außen» ist ein umfassendes Paket für Seelsorge an sich selbst.

Dying a good death is Vee Rileys final wish, and she believes a good death is a conscious death.

Fascinating, bizarre and hilarious facts about the most universal of experiences of life - birth, death and matrimony .

Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology grad student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning death from the academic to the deeply personal.

Die Leiden des jungen Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Die Handlung des Romans ist insofern autobiografisch, als Goethe hier seine platonische Beziehung zu der bereits verlobten Charlotte Buff literarisch verarbeitete.

The Night Land William Hope Hodgson - The Night Land is a horror/fantasy novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.

Der rasante Wandel in der Sepulkralkultur äußert sich auch im Blick auf die Räume, die kulturell für Tote vorgesehen sind.

Raspberry Jam Carolyn Wells - Renowned detective Fleming Stone is back again in this captivating whodunit with some spooky supernatural elements.

"e;Can you be a witness?

In Remember Me, Time writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen has created a humorous and poignant chronicle of her travels around the country to discover how Americans are reinventing the rites of dying.

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 .

Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology.

'To Morrie, life was a process of opening oneself lovingly - to other people, to the world, ultimately to something larger than ourselves.

La reencarnación es un tema apasionante, contemplado por todas las religiones en sus orígenes, aunque algunas, por cuestiones jerárquicas, hayan desechado el tema o lo hayan vinculado con otro tipo de renacimiento, elevación e incluso castigo eterno, para ilusionar y contener a sus feligreses.