Sociología de la muerte y el morir

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  • American Hangman
    Tobin T. Buhk
    In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths. A former police chief who became the hangman of San Quentin due to an unfortunate turn of events, Lunt stood on the gallows alongside bank robbers, desperadoes and assassins for five years. This book follows Lunt’s trail fro...
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    42,59 €

  • A Sin Unto Death
    John Teague
    This book will answer the question in the Bible about what is exactly the sin unto death. ...
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    15,26 €

  • Last Scene of All
    Jessica Goodman
    Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any stage death is also a non-ending: just one in a series of repeated (re)presentations, by an actor who will live (and die) again. Spanning six centuries and seven countries, this study considers how different dramatic authors have ...
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    139,12 €

  • Embodying the Music and Death Nexus
    This edited collection offers a range of critical, analytic and personal reflections on how music provides a container and a medium for experiencing, processing and integrating embodied encounters with death. It showcases interdisciplinary case studies written by authors from across Australia, France, The Netherlands, Poland and the UK. ...
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    142,92 €

  • 安然告别 (It’s OK to Die , Chinese Edition）
    Kristian A Murphy / Monica Williams / Shuang Wu
    人生到了最终阶段时，现代医学多半会让病人失望。医生们不知怎么传达'你正在死亡，我们应该停止积极的无效治疗，让死亡自然的发生，让你能经历一个好死'这样的现实。人们不知道好死是什么模样，不知道一个好死的意义是多么重大。在这本书里，莫尼卡•威廉姆斯医生和她的丈夫克里斯蒂安•墨菲有说服力地指导我们：为什么会有一个正确的时刻让我们说出'现在是让我上路的时候了（时间到了，让我死吧？）', '现在时间到了，让我的爸爸（或妈妈）走吧'这样的话。死亡终将降临到每一个人的头上，但是我们太多地让我们正在走向死亡的亲人承受无效而痛苦的治疗手段的折磨。让我们在走到生命尽头之前读这本书，汲取这本书中的热情和信息， 为自己做准备。当那个时刻到来时为自己抗争，为自己争一个好死：在亲人的怀抱里，疼痛症状被控制，焦虑恐惧得到抚慰，说了要说的再见，如果需要则寻求谅解，获得内心的安宁。如果...
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    18,57 €

  • The Coming Death
    Richard F. Calichman
    Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema. ...
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    42,35 €

  • When the 'Dead' Rose in Britain
    Nicole C. Salomone
    Through a detailed and fascinating exploration of changing medical knowledge and practice, this book provides a timeline of humankind’s understanding of physiological death. Anchored in Early Modern Britain, it explains how evolving medical theories challenged the ambiguous definition of death, instigating anxieties over the newly realized potential for officials to mistake a p...
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    72,04 €

  • Amaneceres
    Jesús Francisco De Asís
    Estas páginas son una invitación a vivir reconciliados con el hecho de la muerte, como un aspecto intrínseco a la vida que experimentamos. Para ello es necesario mirarla de frente y escuchar todo lo que nos quiere decir; quizá entonces descubramos revelaciones que nos sorprenden que no estaban ocultas, sino que simplemente necesitaban que les prestáramos atención, y sintamos un...
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    14,00 €

  • Sailing into the Light
    Susan Highsmith
    There is no better time to read a story to a friend or a loved one than when they are leaving this body and making their transition into the next Life. It is a time that can frighten us or fill us with sadness for our impending loss. If we can fill our hearts and minds with loving words and images of a Life beyond this Life, it can soothe us and the dear one we wish to help on ...
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    25,45 €

  • A Life Continued
    Donna Marie Easter
    'Fear mixed with dread, combined with a heart racing, stomach-churning sense of panic . . .' Donna Easter’s reminiscence of her husband’s death to prostate cancer cuts deep. Even if you’ve never lost a partner, grief comes in all shapes, she explains in her memoir, A Life Continued: Living After Losing Your Best Friend. Whether you are working through divorce or a first respond...
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    24,61 €

  • Count the Dead
    Stephen Berry
    The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirding massive improvements in human life and lifestyles. In 1850, Americans died at an average age of 30. Today, the average is almost 80. This story is typically told as a series of medical breakthroughs—Jenner and vaccination, List...
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    28,17 €

  • Compassion Fatigue in the Funeral Profession
    International Grief Institute / Linda B. Findlay / Lynda Cheldelin Fell
    A noble profession, the funeral industry is known for its strong sense of decorum, compassion, empathy, and common sense. Such a busy profession leaves little time for self-care. Yet, when funeral professionals are unable to refuel between families and at the end of the day, the emotional residue of secondary traumatic stress can take a toll. Filled with 25 evidence-based strat...
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    37,87 €

  • VOICES-19
    Brenda Cortez
    Where were you when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the world stood still? None of us could have ever imagined the tragedy this virus would bring and how many lives it would take. It changed many of us, but for those who lost a loved-one to Covid, life will never be the same. As the months went on, all we heard about were the numbers, but behind these numbers are cherished human ...
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    21,59 €

  • Spectacle of Grief
    Sarah J. Purcell
    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 diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities. These funerals featured lengthy processions that sometimes crossed multiple state lines, burial ceremonies open to the public, and other cultural productions ...
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    121,38 €

  • Siempre Puedo Continuar
    Franklin Díaz
    Un libro que contiene las herramientas necesarias para superar, de manera exitosa, el proceso de duelo que sigue al fallecimiento de un ser querido, haciendo de este el motor impulsor para la obtención de objetivos muy superiores y hasta entonces inalcanzados.La pérdida de un ser querido es, quizás, una de las mayores adversidades que se pueda experimentar. El duelo y la recupe...
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    22,38 €

  • Death and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons
    Becky Aud-Jennison
    It’s Time to Invite Death Out of the Closet!The impending or actual death of someone close to you can be devastating. It doesn’t matter if you knew it was coming, or if it was a total shock-you’ll never be the same. There is no right way to grieve, and no appropriate time frame. It’s different for everyone.Author and therapist gone rogue, Becky Aud-Jennison, the creator of The ...
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    18,64 €

  • The Coming Death
    Richard F. Calichman / Richard FCalichman
    Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema. ...
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    122,05 €

  • The Book of the Dead (Hardback)
    E. A. Wallis Budge / EAWallis Budge
    The Book of the Dead was intended to assist the deceased in the afterlife and comprised a collection of hymns, spells and instructions to allow the deceased to pass through obstacles in the afterlife. ...
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    5,53 €

  • Haunted
    Violet Sherwood
    The disturbing experience of psychological infanticide reflects the darkest aspect of the wounding of the Sacred Feminine - the Death Mother archetype that annihilates rather than nurtures life. Through myth, story, classic literature, biography, poems, art and dreams, Dr. Violet Sherwood weaves together symbolic aspects of psychological infanticide with psychoanalytic theory o...
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    36,64 €

  • Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery
    Hal Bryant / Joe Depriest / June H Hobbs
    This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina’s historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States. The authors, an academic and a journalist, detail the lives and memories of people who are buried here, from Civil War soldiers to those who created the Jim Crow South and promoted the narrative of th...
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    58,51 €

  • The Future of the Corpse
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    95,28 €

  • The Rich Man
    James Olah
    This is a fiction story about a real place. It is a story created from the teachings of Jesus of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31. I base the book on His statement: "The rich man died… In Hades, where he was in torment." Jesus spoke about an actual place, and this story seeks to provide a realistic understanding of this place of suffering.Have you ever wondered what it...
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    9,24 €

  • Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
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    40,22 €

  • Roman Tombs and the Art of Commemoration
    Barbara E. Borg / Barbara EBorg
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    153,72 €

  • A Word On Death by Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov
    Anna Skoubourdis / Nun Christina / St George Monastery
    'The demons have the same deceit and goal when they work with thoughts or through men devoted to sensuousness and the world. The demons slander the monastic life calling it unnatural and impossible, by instilling these false concepts, they try to tame the ascetic’s zeal, plunge them into negligence of salvation, drown them in the carnal life and in pleasing the passions.' ...
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    23,63 €

  • Living with the Dying
    Amanda Neveu
    Have you thought about your future end-of-life journey? What does it look like, feel like, what are your desires and concerns? Join the Executive Director of the Schenectady Community Home Inc., Amanda Neveu, as she sheds light on the dynamic and groundbreaking mission of a non-profit comfort home and urges us all to consider our end-of-life wishes through compelling, powerful ...
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    27,99 €

  • Suffer Less in Death
    Vincent Dodd
    Death is a clear-cut objective moment, but the process of dying and the choices we make for our own death and others is a wholly different subject. Not becoming educated on your ability to influence your dying process is leaving that potentially long helpless period to fate. Raw and informative, this book explores the truth and asserts your right to knowledge and your right to ...
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    24,40 €

  • Let’s Talk About End of Life Psychotherapy
    Bido Aguessy
    Ones End of Life can be compared to a person being dropped off at the Train station, with a one-way ticket to a destination that is still unknown. While at the train station, the anxiety due to the fear of the unknown of the new destination, the discomfort of the station and the concern for the family left behind become the main causes of the person emotional and psychological ...
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    17,47 €

  • Fresh Air Volume Three
    Bishop M.E. Lyons / Bishop M.ELyons
    This book is set to minister and speak to the families who are left behind while highlighting and bringing to remembrance the good memories to enable them to focus on the rainbow rather than the storm! ...
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    17,06 €

  • The Art of Dying
    Rob Moll
    Death will come to us all, but most of us live our lives as if death did not exist. Medicine has made dying more complicated and more removed from the experience of most people. Death is partitioned off to hospital rooms, separated from our daily lives. Most of us find ourselves at a loss when death approaches. We don’t know how to die well. For centuries Christians have prepar...
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    22,26 €


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