Sociology: Death & Dying

For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed co-founder of Death over Dinner offers a practical, inspiring guide to life'...

What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult ...

The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the bod...

Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forg...

Where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from? As strange as it may seem to us now, there was a time when no one thought they would go to heave...

In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous dec...

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book e...

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronauts body if it was pushed out ...

Leesa Ross did not expect to write a book. Neither did she expect the tragedy that her family endured, a horrific and sudden death that led her to ...