Sociology: Death & Dying

Originally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish tradition an...

First published in 1984. A common myth is that that young children (say around three years of age) do not understand death or give the death of fri...

Living With Grief: Children, Adolescents, and Loss, (2000) edited by Kenneth J. Doka, features articles by leading educators and clinicians in the ...

Clergy are in a natural position to help people who experience a variety of losses, including death, divorce, moves, and develop-mental transitions...

Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both ...

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the Ne...

While the religion of the Bible has long fascinated readers and scholars, the Israelite attitude toward death remains clouded in mystery even thoug...

At heart, suicide is a subversive act: the assertion of individual will against public authority. How is it, then, that the act of suicide–one with...

In the popular and scientific imagination, suicide has always been an enigmatic act that defies, and yet demands, explanation. Throughout the centu...

The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histor...

Focusing on the "long" nineteenth century, from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory...

Through firsthand accounts and research, Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly focuses on the education, training, and support of individua...

This work examines the relationships between John Milton and Charles Diodati, Thomas Gray and Richard West, and Alfred Tennyson and Arthur Hallam t...

Talking about death is now fashionable, but how should we talk? Who should we listen to - priests, doctors, cousellors, or ourselves? Has psycholog...

While grief is suffered in all cultures, it is expressed differently all over the world in accordance with local customs and beliefs. Music has bee...

Sorrow and Solace focuses on the importance of cemeteries in the lives of everyday mourners, and ways in which our bereaved give meaning to and dra...

Grief is frequently thought of as an ordeal we must simply survive. This book offers a fresh approach to the negotiation of death and grief. It is ...

Despite the recent history of violence and destruction, Bosnia-Herzegovina holds a positive place in history, marked by a continuous interweaving o...

Mourning and memorialization are at the very centre of literary culture. They take on forms deeply resonant of the sundry traditions of poetic eleg...

This book offers a theological foundation for engaging with the realities of suffering and dying. Designed particularly for practical theology stud...

The workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they pro...

Discover How To Lower The Cost Of Any Funeral Guaranteed Thinking about a funeral and discussing it now is a current act of compassion, which will ...

Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19...

This book provides detailed analysis of the manifold ways in which COVID-19 has influenced death, dying and bereavement. Through three parts: Recon...

Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger’s concept of ‘being-towards-death’ and proposes a new und...

New technologies and scientific imagination rearrange the boundary that we identify as the beginning and end of life. New techno-social constella...

Marilyn Monroe died at 36. Her death certificate lists "Acute Barbiturate Poisoning. Ingestion of Overdose" as the cause. Just below that line, ...

This book explores death in contemporary society – or more precisely, in the ‘spectacular age’ – by moving beyond classic studies of death that emp...

Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were to be discovered more than two mill...

Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) likely suffered from a manic-depressive disorder but in his time very little was known about mental illness,...

Recent research in the area of suicidology has provided significant new insights in the epidemiological,psychopathological,and biological character...

A source of comfort and expert guidance Like a knowing and sympathetic companion, this unique journal isdesigned to help you work through the pain...

Using the untimely death of the poet and friend, Sylvia Plath, as a point of departure, Al Alvarez confronts the controversial and often taboo area...