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This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to approach, prepare for, and handle their ultimate destiny.

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Mecke (emerita, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stanford U.; emerita, educational psychology, California State U., Hayward) explores troubling cases in which suicide was provoked by a family member, or instigator.

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This is a defence of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death.

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Providing practical assistance to readers and their loved ones, this title incorporates the abstract and theoretical analysis essential to examining how we die in contemporary Western society. The author also presents the backgrounds of the Hospice and Right-to-Die ("Hemlock") Movements.

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This book offers a source of hope and healing for anyone experiencing grief.

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Addresses how funerals may be created which are not only relevant for the bereaved, but which also have theological integrity. This book addresses how funerals may be created which are not only relevant for the bereaved, but also have theological integrity.

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This book is a collection of mortality abstracts based on recent follow-up studies on the results of health disorders from the abstracts and articles appearing recently in the Journal of Insurance Medicine.

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The strange, startling, disturbing and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths.

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Zopf provides a comprehensive account of the biological components of mortality, its various forms and causes, and its many differentials.

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Perfect for school and public libraries, this is the only reference book to combine pop culture with science to uncover the mystery behind mummies and the mummification phenomena.

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She let me go and disappeared ... without a backward glance. And I, I turned away, sick at heart, but not knowing ... that I had said goodbye to her forever. Now I wish, as much as I have ever wished for anything ... that I had been able to cage those precious minutes within the nets of gold I could not recognise as such.

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By managing death issues in a planned purposeful manner, schools can reduce suicide and other harmful behavioral reactions substantially. Helping students to understand death and loss is part of assisting them to become resilient, proactive individuals.

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Provides an ethnographic study of the buffering effect of the Black church against suicide. Findings indicate a consensus within the black community in terms of its attitudes and beliefs toward suicide. The work concludes that suicide is alien to underlying African-American belief systems.

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An examination of death rituals in early Japan that finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 AD). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts, it argues that double burial was the center of a manipulation of myth and ritual for specific ideological and factional purposes.

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Introducing readers to morticians and embalmers, rabbis and doctors, coffin makers and gravediggers, this book reveals the fashions and the fads, the rituals and the deep emotion in life.

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This engaging and informative resource provides readers with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical influences that shape our encounters with death, dying, and bereavement-a universal experience across humanity.

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The 20th Century saw the mass production of corpses through war and the triumph of technology over the human body. The new millennium has opened with global terrorism and the suspension of all human rights in far-flung prison camps. This book analyses our exposure to death in modern culture.

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Western culture has always been obsessed with death, but now death has taken on a new, anonymous form. The 20th Century saw the mass production of corpses through war and the triumph of technology over the human body. The new millennium has opened with global terrorism and the suspension of all human rights in far-flung prison camps.

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The Last Choice establishes that preemptive suicide in advanced age can be rational: that it can make good sense to evade age-related personal diminishment even at the cost of good time left.