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  • Honest Endings
    Katherine Cullen M.S.W.
    HONEST ENDINGSDo You Have Worries or Fears about Witnessing the End of Life?Gain Freedom from your Anxieties and Fears about the Natural Dying Process Know what You Can Say or Do to Comfort the Dying Be Better Prepared for Attending a Death of a Loved OneWatching a Loved One Die is not Easy. It is Very Difficult.The good news is this: attending a death is a very special form ...
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    9,70 €

  • Death and its Mystery - Before Death - Proofs of the Existence of the Soul - Volume I;With Introductory Poems by Emily Dickinson & Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Camille Flammarion
    First published in 1920, this book contains the first volume of Nicolas Camille Flammarion’s “Death and its Mystery”, which deals with the age-old question of what happens when you die. In this volume, Flammarion concentrates on the soul and explores a variety of historical cases and investigations that purport to prove the existence thereof, examining their validity in light o...
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    27,50 €

  • Death and its Mystery - After Death - Manifestations and Apparitions of the Dead; The Soul After Death - Volume III;With Introductory Poems by Emily Dickinson & Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Camille Flammarion
    First published in 1923, this book contains the third volume of Nicolas Camille Flammarion’s “Death and its Mystery”, which deals with the age-old question of what happens when you die. In this volume, Flammarion concentrates on various time periods after death and the phenomenon of people experiencing visions, apparitions, and manifestations of the dying from a few minutes to ...
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    29,52 €

  • Some Light at the End
    Beth Cavenaugh
    In this tender yet transparent guide to your final days, experienced hospice nurse Beth Cavenaugh reveals what options you may have as a patient living with a terminal disease. With personal stories and a touch of humor, Some Light at the End provides information about hospice care, the practicalities of the dying process, nursing guidance about pain and symptom management, and...
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    23,90 €

  • Funerary Practices in Serbia
    Aleksandra Pavicevic / Julie Rugg
    Funerary Practices in Serbia is the first book to offer a concise yet highly informative study of the historical development and current state of funerary practices in Serbia. It explores the historical roots of contemporary funerary practices in the country and provides illuminating insight into how death is 'managed' in Serbia today. ...
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    80,71 €

  • Fractured
    Carole L Sanek
    Carole L. Sanek is a certified personal life coach who has also been a ghost writer for over 10 years for clients. She has blogged and written marketing pieces for social media for others and is an award-winning blogger herself. She has won awards for her wittiness and upfront style with her diagnosis of breast cancer years ago. When the sudden death of her beloved husband happ...
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    22,82 €

  • Introduction to Wills and Probate
    Siva Prasad Bose
    This book is an introductory guide to wills and probate as per Indian law. It covers topics such as what is a will, who can write a will, what is a valid or invalid will, what are the relevant Indian laws reated to wills and probate, format and steps of a probate application and so on.  It is meant to be helpful for all those who are thinking of making a will, those whose famil...
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    6,30 €

  • I Will Dance Across the Morning Sky
    Marcia McGee Ashford
    A celebration of life book for children and adults. Have you lost someone you love? Is your heart aching? Celebrate their life with comforting words and remarkable art by Sudipita Dasgupta.I Will Dance Across the Morning Sky takes you on a beautiful dream journey of the other side of life, after death. Where do we go? What do we do? Oh, imagine the fun we will have! A perfect g...
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    20,86 €

  • Funerary Practices in the Czech Republic
    Olga Nešporová
    Exploring the traditions, customs and contemporary legal framework of Czech funerary practices, this book analyses and interprets the high cremation rate, predominance of secular funerals and increasing popularity of cremation with no funeral ceremony against the background of the country’s historical development. ...
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    84,95 €

  • ’Heaven! A Would-Be Explorer’s Guide.’
    Antony Forster
    ’Heaven! A Would-Be Explorer’s Guide’Many if not most people on earth don’t think their life will be judged when an accident, illness or last breath means the end of life has arrived. Indeed, nearly all people imagine that what they remember before they were conceived (nothing) is the state to which they will return; again without intervening judgement.According to the author, ...
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    15,66 €

  • Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries
    Duncan Sayer
    This book moves beyond the examination of grave goods to place community at the forefront of cemetery studies. It reveals that early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries were pluralistic, multi-generational places where the physical communication of digging a grave was used to construct family and community stories. ...
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    42,55 €

  • Dying Well
    Richard Reoch
    A book of beauty, hope and dignity that can be given to anyone - at any stage.Advises and reassures people who are facing death, and their friends, families and carers.Charts pathways from fear to courage, loss to discovery and from denial to insight.Inspires with moving and powerful quotations from major religions and cultures.Offers complementary therapies such as massage, ar...
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    42,28 €

  • Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019
    Harris M. Lentz
    The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts...
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    139,74 €

  • Final Wishes Planner
    Glenda Walsh Crouse
    The Final Wishes Planner is designed to help you plan your vigil, funeral and memorial options.My Personal Contact Information & DetailsMy Family InformationMy Vigil PlanAt The Time Of My DeathMy Disposition WishesMy Obituary WishesMy Viewing and Visitation WishesMy Funeral/ Memorial WishesMy Legacy Projects and WishesFinancial InformationOther Information ...
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    7,82 €

  • Saint Worm
    Hailey Leithauser
    Saint Worm, Hailey Leithauser’s second poetry collection, collects—sometimes warmly, sometime wickedly—glowworm, bookworm, earthworm, and other earthly and unearthly creatures, including human beings. Leithauser’s sparklingly inimitable style mates the serious with the playful, yielding a treasury of quirkiness, inventive turns of phrase, wordplay, and expansive diction, making...
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    23,68 €

  • Hospice
    Deborah Lee
    Hospice is often misunderstood. We humans do not like to think about our own deaths, or those of people we love. People who work in this medical specialty are characterized by some as angels performing super-human ministrations, and by others as macabre creatures who wish to hasten their patients’ deaths. But the reality of hospice work is complex, poignant, challenging, fulfil...
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    21,21 €

  • The Evening of Life
    Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, our cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate conception of the human person, which is based on a notion of absolute individual autono...
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    143,85 €

  • The Evening of Life
    Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, our cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate conception of the human person, which is based on a notion of absolute individual autono...
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    39,53 €

  • Death in Custody
    Dr Jo Easton
    Death in Custody shows that procedural justice theory is relevant for participation in processes investigating human rights violations. It includes key recommendations on how to ensure participation can be fair and effective. ...
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    142,77 €

  • Burial and Death in Colonial North America
    Robyn S. Lacy
    This book explores the relationship and organization of 17th Century burial landscapes within their associated settlements and the wider setting of colonial northeast British North America to provide readers with a more holistic understanding of settlers’ relationship with mortality. ...
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    84,98 €

  • Marble Girl
    Stephanie Josiah
    This is a book about family, trauma, dreams, disappointments, and internal struggle. I am a raw nerve... I would be dishonest if I didn’t put it plainly. I wouldn’t wish anything like this experience on anyone.To the fatherless... this one is for you. ...
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    28,34 €

  • Death, Culture & Leisure
    Matt Coward-Gibbs
    Death, Culture and Leisure: Playing Dead is an inter- and multi-disciplinary volume that engages with the diverse nexuses that exist between death, culture and leisure. At its heart, it is a playful exploration of the way in which we play with both death and the dead. ...
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    159,43 €

  • Corpse Encounters
    Chase Pielak / Jacqueline Elam
    This book sustains a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological burial. Through tracing the possible futures of the dead that haunt the living, th...
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    54,53 €

  • Angels Watching Over Me
    Linda Dipman / Pam Ware
    Inspired by their own stories of tragedy and miracles, Pam Ware and Linda Dipman wrote Angels Watching Over Me. It will help those who work in hospice and palliative care to those who have survived childhood abuse; to religious parents wanting confirmation that God made all LGBTQ children and it’s okay to love them. Health Care leaders will learn how to incorporate Christian va...
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    19,13 €

  • So We Live, Forever Bidding Farewell
    John Parratt
    A re-evaluation of assisted dying from a theological perspective, relating theological issues to scientific, pastoral and practical concerns about the subject. ...
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    18,83 €

  • Harnessing the Power of Grief
    Julie Potter
    In this book, Julie Potter traces back decades the research on understanding and coping with grief, which she describes as a natural human response to loss. Pulling from the work of Worden, the author prescribes four tasks for those in grief to use in managing their grief. She also walks the reader through special situations like tragic loss without warning. A book for those wh...
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    15,92 €

  • Missing Dan Nolan
    Mark Wheeller
    Set text for OCR GCSE 9-1 Drama examThis play tells the tragic true story of Dan Nolan, a teenage boy who went missing on the 1st January 2002 after a night out fishing with his best friends. ...
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    11,79 €

  • Photography and Death
    Jack Denham / Racheal Harris
    Examining a spectrum of post-mortem images, this volume considers what death photography communicates about attitudes related to dying, mourning and the afterlife. Focusing on American examples, topics are discussed alongside contemporary representations of death, as seen in celebrity death images and forensic photography. ...
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    84,85 €

  • The Final Choice
    Caralise Trayes
    A Kiwi journalist on the hunt for the truth about assisted dying and the End of Life Choice Act. Join her on a journey of discovery as she tells the stories of those with terminal illness and interviews lawyers, doctors, ethicists and clerics around New Zealand and the world.'The decision about whether or not to legalise euthanasia is the single most important values decision o...
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    14,39 €

  • Love’s Last Act
    Deborah Price
    All of us will die. But have you ever truly thought about what you need and want as your death approaches? YOU CAN experience a peaceful comfortable death at home. In order to do that, you need to make your wishes known. NOW. Love’s Last Act is a practical guide to planning end-of-life care, for yourself and your loved ones. This book lays out how to talk with your family and d...
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    10,31 €


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