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After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head-on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death by investigating Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Mayan temples, Colorado cremation pyres, Day of the Dead celebrations, Maori settlements, and tourist-destination graveyards.

La médecine d'urgence n'est pas un travail sans histoires, le docteur Alain Vadeboncoeur en sait quelque chose. Exerçant ce métier depuis près de 25 ans, il a été le témoin de fins violentes, il a vu des personnes revenir de la mort, il a sauvé des vies in extrémis, il a été confronté à de coriaces malades imaginaires, mais surtout, il a accompagné la douleur de ceux qui perdaient un proche et la joie de ceux qui l'échappaient belle.

What is it like to survive a crash that kills your best friends, and how do you move on? From an exceptional debut author comes a stunning memoir about grief, perseverance and courage.

Thomas G. Long, one of America's most trusted and thoughtful pulpit voices, provides a much needed theological and cultural critique of today's Christian funeral. Long begins by describing how the Christian funeral developed historically, theologically, and liturgically and then discusses recent cultural trends in funeral practices, including the rise in number of cremations and memorial services. 

Planet Claire is the story of the untimely death of the author's wife and a candid account of the following year of madness and grief. With Claire's death, Jeff Porter tries to imagine life without her but struggles with the bewilderment that follows. There was no gradual transition, no chance to say good-bye or resolve unfinished business. The grief is crushing, her death the psychological equivalent of Pearl Harbor. But as Jeff's life unravels, he analyzes his sadness with growing interest. 

Packed with fun facts and presidential trivia, The President Is Dead! tells you everything you could possibly want to know about how our presidents, from George Washington to George H. W. Bush (who was the most recent president to die), met their ends, the circumstances of their deaths, the pomp of their funerals, and their public afterlives, including stories of attempted grave robbings, reinterments, vandalism, conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths, and much more.

A belief in the afterlife is common to almost every faith and culture around the world. Even people who don't consider themselves spiritual share a fascination in life after death. In this powerful guide narrated by Candida Gubbins, author and intuitive, Diane Ahlquist, shares her own knowledge...

Funeral homes are immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the history of this uniquely American architectural icon to explore the twentieth century's expanding consumer landscape and reveal how buildings can help construct identities.

Death is a fact of life, but the experience of grief is unique to each of us. This timely collection brings together a range of voices to offer reflections on death and dying, from individual losses to large scale catastrophes. Karin Schimke revisits her troubled relationship with her late father, a Second World War survivor ‘whose brain had been broken by violence’. Madeleine Fullard, the head of South Africa’s Missing Persons Task Team, draws us into the search for activists who were ‘disappeared’ or went missing in political circumstances between 1960 and 1994.

Death in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected, composted, dissolved, or tanned. Your family can incorporate your remains into jewelry, shotgun shells, paperweights, and artwork. Cremations have more than doubled, and DIY home funerals and green burials are on the rise. American Afterlives is Shannon Lee Dawdy’s lyrical and compassionate account of changing death practices in America as people face their own mortality and search for a different kind of afterlife.

Unlock life's full potential by embracing the unavoidable. In a world that often shies away from its deepest truth, The Death Mindset dares to explore the profound paradox at the heart of human existence: that our awareness of death is not a source of fear to be avoided, but a powerful catalyst for living a richer, more meaningful life.

La mort nous passionne, nous intrigue, nous inquiète. Guillaume Bailly revient dans cet ouvrage passionnant sur des anecdotes les plus marquantes de l'histoire de la mort dans le monde ! Au menu : le récit poignant du travail des croque-morts du Titanic, l'étonnante gare de Londres spécialement conçue pour soulager des cimetières pleins à craquer, les coutumes morbides tout autour du globe... Et des révélations comme celle portant sur la création des Catacombes ou celle revenant sur la première destination du cimetière du Père-Lachaise.

Deu anys després de la mort del seu pare, el narrador d'aquest llibre decideix escriure-la. Amb l'ombra del suïcidi que priva el dol, es pregunta: és possible trobar les paraules d'un comiat que no es va produir? Així, aquest relat personal i íntim esdevé una recerca per entendre com es forgen els vincles familiars, a què condemna el silenci, on s'amaga la veritat d'una història. Però l'escriptura falla, i l'autor recorre a les biografies d'escriptors que es van suïcidar i a les seves darreres notes per reconstruir un adeu possible, temptatiu.

One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016 “A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers...

In these extended talks, Ram Dass speaks at length about truth and divine love as direct experience rather than belief. He examines how the search for meaning often becomes entangled with ego, identity, and fear, and how those same obstacles can become the doorway to awakening when met with awareness. Love, in these reflections, is not sentiment or morality, but a state of being that arises when resistance softens.

Пока человек жив, он мало задумывается над тем, ЧТО ожидает его, возможно, уже в следующую секунду: ведь сколько прекрасных строк оборвалось на полуслове и скольким добрым делам так и не суждено было исполниться лишь только потому, что люди в суете житейской всё самое лучшее и необходимое постоянно откладывали и продолжают откладывать «на потом», забывая о том, что в следующее мгновение этого «потом» у них уже может и не быть вовсе.

2020 als globaler Wendepunkt - was das Virus mit der Welt gemacht hat Mit dem Ausbruch von Covid-19 markiert das Jahr 2020 das Ende einer Epoche. Lockdown, Social-Distancing und Isolation: Nichts war in unserem alltäglichen Leben mehr so, wie wir es kannten. Coronavirus: Ein Epochenjahr im...

When it comes to the end of a relationship, the loss of a loved one, or even a national tragedy, we are often told we need "closure." But while some people do find closure for their pain and grief, many more feel that closure does not exist and believe the notion only encourages false hopes. Sociologist Nancy Berns explores these ideas and their ramifications in her timely book, Closure.

"Mordantly wonderful." —CARL HIAASEN "I almost died laughing." —ROZ CHAST "My own departure would not be so bad if only Mr. Roberts could write the obit!" —KAI BIRD From celebrated New York Times obituarist Sam Roberts, the art of the obit: Who we remember, how we forget, and where we find...

صدر هذا الكتاب عام 1959، وفيه يتناول الدكتور مصطفى محمود قضية الموت ومفهومه الملغِز، انطلاقًا من الحياة وكيف تُشبِه عمليةَ شدٍّ وجذب بين الوجود والفناء، فالإنسان موجود على قيد الحياة، إلا أنه يموت كل لحظة عبر كُرَيَات الدم والخلايا التي تتجدد باستمرار. لذلك فالموت أشبه بالبُستاني الذي يقتلع النبات الذابل الفارغ من الحياة، حتى يُفسح المجال لرقيق البذور لكي تنمو وتكبر وتطرح الثمار. ويطرح الكتاب أسئلةً فلسفية حول كينونة الإنسان، وماهية الزمن، والحب، وغيرها من الأسئلة التي تتعلَّق بالوجود الإنساني.