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"A short, accessible book on issues of death and dying from the perspective of the medical professions"--

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Attitudes towards death are shaped by our social worlds. This book explores how beliefs, practices and representations of dying and death continue to evolve and adapt in response to changing global societies. Introducing students to debates around grief, religion and life expectancy, this is a clear guide to a complex field for all sociologists.

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The first book to explore the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death becomes closer.

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This work faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some populart errors in our thinking about death. It examines the metaphors which can mislead us: death as parting; death as sleep; immortality as the denial of death; and selflessness as a kind of consolation.

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A clear-eyed survey of our how we deal with death around the world.

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The seminal thinker offers a new understanding of our bodies, our selves and our powerlessness in controlling either.

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Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair, but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide. This work was the result of his research.

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"Originally published in French as Au bonheur des morts, Recits de ceux qui restent. Copyright Editions La Decouverte, Paris, 2015, 2017."

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A marvellously macabre look at how some of the world's favourite historical figures got even more interesting past their expiration dates with their corpses in part or in whole going onhilarious and horrifying adventures!

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Journalist Erica Buist travels to seven death festivals around the world (Mexico, Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan, Indonesia) in search of better attitudes towards mortality

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A major exploration of the science of why and how we age and die - from a Nobel Prize-winning biologist and former president of the Royal Society.

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Offers an account of the many terminally ill people whom the author has assisted to end their lives. This book is a moving journey with those who came to him for help and a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. It is also a doctor's personal story about the moral dilemmas and ethical choices.

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This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element in both Western culture and the individual, and how to treat it.

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Most studies of human development in developing societies have focused on the childhood stage, and in a few cases exploration has extended up to adolescence, since this age group represents about half the population in developing societies.

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This book takes a critical glance at the ritualized practices of deathcorpse preparation, disposal, and aesthetic representationand examines the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization.

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This book takes a critical glance at the ritualized practices of deathcorpse preparation, disposal, and aesthetic representationand examines the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization.

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A burgeoning body of literature on death and dying is organized into a comprehensive, carefully outlined, annotated list in this volume, which cites more than 2200 books, articles, chapters, monographs, and reports primarily concerned with the counseling and theological aspects of death and dying.

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Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise analyzes the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, throughout various media and cultural contexts in order to show how the two subjects are intertwined and prevalent throughout the worlds cultures.