Sociology: Death & Dying

In 1971, Laura and Guy Waterman left New York City for thirty-seven acres in Vermont, where they would live in a hand-built cabin without running w...

War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the warsor more precisely the memories of warof the twentieth century, images of the deaths of c...

A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive usJust as surge...

Winner of the 2020 Stand-Out Graduate Research Award Winner of the August 2020 Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et culture (FRQSC) Prix Relèv...

Discover how the bonds of life and love transcend death Explains the phenomenon of crisis apparitions: visions of loved ones that are experienced s...

'Remarkable and complex' GEORGE MCGAVIN A memoir and investigation exploring loss, community and the climate cris...

'Remarkable and complex' GEORGE MCGAVIN A memoir and investigation exploring loss, community and the climate cris...

Tod und Sterben gehören zu den existentiellen Grunderfahrungen des Menschseins, die seit jeher Gegenstand kultureller Deutung sind. Der erste Teil ...

A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our lives takes place onlinebut wh...

This unique book recounts the experience of facing one's death solely from the dying person's point of view rather than from the perspective of car...

Drawing on the event of Queen Elizabeth IIs death in 2022 as a central case study, this book explores the way we navigate the relationship between ...

This innovative volume examines the phenomenological, existential and cultural dimensions of grief experiences. It draws on perspectives from philo...

An inevitable and universal experience, dying is experienced by individuals in different ways, often related to the character of our relationships,...

Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case stu...

We live in a society that is bombarded by news of accidents, disasters and terrorist attacks. We are obsessed by the presence of death. It is commo...

This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a div...

This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrializationspecifically, the decline of the textile industry in ...