Sociology: Death & Dying

From the hiding of the bones of Kamehameha the Great, to the half-mile-long funeral procession of King Kamehameha III, to the somber return of the ...

In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials - to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tri...

Edinburgh has a unique history, darker and more unexpected than you might imagine. Fortunately, it also has a set of graveyards to match. Ancient, ...

This book makes up a collection of cautionary tales about the undignified ways you can kick the bucket and they're all true! The vegetarian who wa...

The milkman cried when I told him you were dead.'Last night,' I said, 'Mark died.'This collection brings together 30 short stories and poems about ...

In this book, Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely tell the extraordinary story of life and death in Aotearoa New Zealand from first Maori settlement...

Whatever your age, making key decisions about your medical care now can help you maintain your dignity and autonomy for as long as possible. In Let...

Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through ...

In this interfaith book Lucinda Mosher investigates different understandings of destiny, loss, death, and remembrance in America's many religions. ...

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where h...

Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom''s husband and a passiona...

A Sunday Times Bestseller March 2022 (Ireland) Soon, the lockdown would start. People would die alone, without any proper ceremony. Charlotte's dea...

THE TERRIFYING FACT IS THIS: Huntington's disease leads to physical and mental deterioration. There is no cure. It is handed down genetically, with...

'Clever, compelling, canine and utterly mesmerising' - Helen LedererStupendo the dog has died. But that's just the beginning of his story.To love a...

The coronavirus pandemic has made society's relationship with death and dying everybody's business. We have had to confront new challenges around t...