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This cultural encyclopedia examines customs and beliefs relating to death and burial in clear, well written articles covering most major religious and cultural traditions from prehistoric to modern times.

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This book considers the plight of the dying migrant as a situation that helps us to better understand some of the fundamental conditions of contemporary societies. The book aims to show how dislocated dying is very much a phenomena of our time, articulating foundational conundrums of community, belonging and citizenship.

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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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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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Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural investigates fundamental anthropological questions about humanity, the concept of dead, and how we relate to our own genders when using the supernatural to understand them.

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From the bestselling author of "90 Minutes in Heaven" comes this follow-up that offers readers the assurance that heaven is real and that they can survive whatever they are going through and grow in God's love through the experience.

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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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This book presents a sociological analysis of death and bereavement practices of American Indians with oral histories from select tribes describing their practices.