Sociology: Death & Dying

Sabarl island—created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent—is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The Sabarl speak of ...

Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the life course, from childhood to...

About 30 percent of hospice patients report a “visitation” by someone who is not there, a phenomenon known in end-of-life care as a deathbed vision...

Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the life course, from childhood to...

In the open access book, The Digital Logic of Death, Steven Pustay skillfully makes visible the immensely important but often overlooked role that ...

Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Mi...

From Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath’s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton’s ...

What happens to us as we die? Discover the answers in this exclusive 25th anniversary edition of Sherwin B Nuland’s seminal book ...

This cultural encyclopedia examines customs and beliefs relating to death and burial in clear, well written articles covering most major religious ...

This book provides an historical archaeology of death, burial and bereavement from the Reformation to the present.

Karl Marx is buried in London, John Keats in Rome and Leon Trotsky in Mexico. Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is today known for the graves of Jim ...