Sociology: Death & Dying

YOU ONLY DIE ONCE is a spirited and funny but also profound and highly practical manual for anyone who yearns to show up more fully and wholehearte...

Promoting Resilience offers a fresh perspective that views resilience through a sociological lens, emphasizing the significance of loss issues and ...

If ever there was an area requiring that the research-practice gap be bridged, surely it occurs where thanatologists engage with people dealing wit...

Human development is not simply about wealth and economic well-being, it is also dependent upon shared values that cherish the sanctity of human li...

Osteoarchaeology is a rich field for reconstructing past lives in that it can provide details on sex, age-at-death, stature, and pathology in conju...

Osteoarchaeology is a rich field for reconstructing past lives in that it can provide details on sex, age-at-death, stature, and pathology in conju...

Het is een wijdverbreid idee dat (post-)middeleeuwse steden een sterfteoverschot hadden en zij slechts in leven konden blijven door de toestroom va...

It is commonly believed that in medieval and post-medieval towns and cities death outnumbered births and that these urban centres could only surviv...

It is commonly believed that in medieval and post-medieval towns and cities death outnumbered births and that these urban centres could only surviv...

Het is een wijdverbreid idee dat (post-)middeleeuwse steden een sterfteoverschot hadden en zij slechts in leven konden blijven door de toestroom va...

How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives. Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has e...

In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevskys fiction prefigures Emile Durkheims etiology in Su...

Although school mental health specialists already understand that suicide and self-injury among students represents a significant and growing conce...

From the moment when we first open our homes - and our hearts - to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to watch this beloved animal age an...