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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.

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How many minutes can you survive after cardiac arrest
What do new medical techniques teach us about consciousness
How will these change our views of who we are

In 2012, two football stars collapsed while playing.

(Paperback)

Throughout history, from the Ancient Egyptians to medieval saints and the remains of figures like Eva Peron and Lenin, mummies have held a place in our collective imagination. THE MUMMY CONGRESS is a survey of the history, science and popular culture of mummies and of man's ancient quest for immortality.

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Shows you how to do everything from ordering a coffin to hiring a horse-drawn hearse to finding a woodland burial ground (where a tree is planted for each grave instead of having a headstone). This book also explains how to arrange a burial on private land and how to set up a woodland burial ground as a business or charity.

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Separate chapters address alternative designs of social systems, the idea of viewing children as a form of human capital, the problem of motivating the politically powerful to support child-survival work, rethinking the meaning of national development, and the challenge of planning for children's survival in concrete, site-specific situations.

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(Hardback)

Discussing the sensitive legal and ethical issues surrounding an individual's right to die, this book integrates the ideas and experiences of ten authorities from different disciplines, cultures and legal systems. Appendices supply references, statutes and judicial decisions.

(Hardback)

This book offers an in-depth sociological analysis of parent and professional experience of baby loss, examining the role that post-mortem can play in the wider context of bereavement.

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(Hardback)

Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book deals with it.

(Paperback)

This book offers an in-depth sociological analysis of parent and professional experience of baby loss, examining the role that post-mortem can play in the wider context of bereavement.

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Aboriginal youth at risk are suffering more from social than from mental disorder. This title presents a study of youth who have, or feel they have, no purpose in life - or who may be seeking freedom in death. It title presents a portrait of life, and of self-destruction, by young Aboriginal men and women.

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First published in the UK and the US in 2015 by Thames & Hudson.

(Hardback)

A beautiful meditation on death as well as an actionable guide to all the logistics surrounding the end of a life - Being Mortal meets When Breath Becomes Air.

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Orwell Prize-nominated journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards.

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Orwell Prize-nominated journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards.

(Paperback)

'I have yet to come away from reading [Bering's] work and not feel considerably better informed than I was minutes before' (Forbes)
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This penetrating analysis aims to demystify a subject that knows no cultural or demographic boundaries.

Why do people want to kill themselves

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A beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last words and the many facets of how language begins and ends from a pioneering language writer.

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I tremble to say theres good in death, because Ive looked in the eyes of the grieving mother and Ive seen the heartbreak of the stricken widow, but Ive also seen something more in death, something good.

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An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.

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