Thoughtful insights on dying, near-death experiences and life after death. How can we change the way we think about dyin......more
Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death ri......more
Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death ri......more
’Powerful, humane and deeply affecting, Lister’s wise and truthful writing makes this essential reading for anyone touch......more
An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death’s existe......more
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This book makes a strong case that Turkey’s regime and its vicissitudes are dependent on a necropolitical undercurrent. ......more
Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the lif......more
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African American Grief is a unique contribution to the field, both as a professional resource for counselors, therapists......more
magine being at peace with death. . . . . . and not having to be afraid of that sacred journey. This is a book of storie......more
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This book provides detailed analysis of the manifold ways in which COVID-19 has influenced death, dying and bereavement.......more
"One of our greatest thinkers" on death presents a radical new approach to thinking about dying and the human corpse (Ca......more
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Decades after Jessica Mitford stunned America with vivid accounts of corruption and abuse in the death industry, not muc......more
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"Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you’ve never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last ......more
"The demons have the same deceit and goal when they work with thoughts or through men devoted to sensuousness and the wo......more
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Taking its cue from Michel de Montaigne, this book asks what COVID-19 can teach us about the ’art of living’. It examine......more
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A heartbreaking grief memoir, One Thousand Days and One Cup of Tea uncovers the process of healing from a personal and p......more
With science denial as a rising danger to public health, Sara E. Gorman and Jack M. Gorman analyze society’s resistance ......more
What leads us to respond politically to the deaths of some citizens and not others? This is one of the critical question......more
What leads us to respond politically to the deaths of some citizens and not others? This is one of the critical question......more
This book offers a multifaceted exploration of death and the possibilities for an afterlife. By incorporating a variety ......more
This book offers a multifaceted exploration of death and the possibilities for an afterlife. By incorporating a variety ......more
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For the thousands of readers of various editions of THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD Gives a real and an intimate insight i......more
Death will come to us all, but most of us live our lives as if death did not exist. Medicine has made dying more complic......more
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This book explores how post-death existence is represented in popular film, looking at issues such as continuity, person......more
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This is a book about death, comprehensive in its discussion of strategies for coping with loss and grief in rural northe......more
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Dealing with the age-old question of what happens when you die, this volume concentrates on various time periods after d......more
First published in 1920, this book contains the first volume of Nicolas Camille Flammarion’s "Death and its Mystery", wh......more
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Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 ......more
Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 ......more
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Funerary Practices in Serbia is the first book to offer a concise yet highly informative study of the historical develop......more
"These are the conversations that will help us to evolve." --Arianna Huffington on Death Over Dinner "Wise, poignant, co......more
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from di......more
A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beauti......more
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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. In The Dig......more
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*Stars of the hit television series The Casketeers, as seen on Netflix* Francis and Kaiora Tipene aren’t your typical fu......more
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This book explores the experiences of Muslims in the United States as they interact with the health care system during s......more
This book explores the ways in which medieval Christians sought to memorialize the deceased: with tombs, cenotaphs, alta......more
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"Losing a parent addresses the loneliness that a person bereaved of a parent may be feeling. It offers support for deali......more
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The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with......more
Exploring the traditions, customs and contemporary legal framework of Czech funerary practices, this book analyses and i......more
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Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence explores how family and family activism work at the intersection of p......more
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This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence. Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their g......more