Death and Dying
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The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch  Publisher Comments "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." — Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while...
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Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
by Maggie Callanan Publisher Comments Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom Publisher Comments Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom Publisher Comments Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way...
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A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
by Stephen Levine Publisher Comments In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller Who Dies?, teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully--as if it were all that was left. On his deathbed, Socrates exhorted his followers to practice dying as the...
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Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
by Philippe Aries Synopsis "AriA]s traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in industrial societies, to hide death as if it were an...
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The American Book of Dying: Lessons in Healing Spiritual Pain
by Richard F. Groves Publisher Comments Dying raises fears and questions as old as humanity: What is a good death? What can the dying teach us? How do we prepare for death? How can you best support a dying friend on relative? Written for the non professional caretaker. THE AMERICAN BOOK OF...
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Spook (05 Edition)
by Roach 
Powells.com Staff Pick In her remarkable debut, Stiff, Mary Roach explored what happens to the body after death, and in the process brought the corpse to glittering life. In her follow up, she stakes out similar terrain. What happens to the soul after death? And how can you...
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick In her remarkable debut, Stiff, Mary Roach explored what happens to the body after death, and in the process brought the corpse to glittering life. In her follow up, she stakes out similar terrain. What happens to the soul after death? And how can you...
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A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice
by Richard (edt) Russo Synopsis Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo and five other Maine authors here prove the close of life need not be filled with darkness, when hospice help is at hand. These writers recount intensely personal and profoundly moving end-of-life accounts that...
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Questions and Answers on Death and Dying: A Companion Volume to on Death and Dying
by Elisabe Kubler Ross Publisher Comments On Death and Dying is one of the most important books ever written on the subject and is still considered the bench-mark in the care of the dying. It became an immediate bestseller, and Life magazine called it "a profound lesson for the living." This...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom Publisher Comments It’s been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world. Now–twelve million copies later–in a new afterword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie’s life lessons and the gentle,...
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Forever Ours: A Forensic Pathologist's Perspective on Immortality and Living From a Forensic Pathologist
by Janis Amatuzio
Publisher Comments Forensic pathologist Janis Amatuzio first began recording the stories told to her by patients, police officers, and other doctors because she felt that no one spoke for the dead. She believed the real experience of death - namely, the spiritual and...
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A Gradual Awakening
by Stephen Levine Publisher Comments Poet and meditation teacher Levine writes simply and gently about his own personal experiences with and insights into vipassana meditation. An inspiring book for anyone interested in deep personal growth....
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Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System
by Stephen Kiernan Publisher Comments • Half of people who die in hospitals today suffer severe untreated pain. • Residents were abused in one-third of U.S. nursing homes in 2003. • Health expenses are the nation’s leading cause of personal bankruptcy. • Only...
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Living with Death and Dying: How to Communicate with the Terminally Ill
by Elisabe Kubler Ross Publisher Comments In this compassionate and moving guide to communicating with the terminally ill, Dr. Elisabeth Küebler-Ross, the world's foremost expert on death and dying, shares her tools for understanding how the dying convey their innermost knowledge and needs....
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Working It Through
by Elisabe Kubler Ross Publisher Comments The companion guide to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's famous workshops on death and dying This remarkable guide to coping with death and dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's realization that she could help larger numbers of terminally ill...
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Embracing Our Mortality: Hard Choices in an Age of Medical Miracles
by Lawren Schneiderman Publisher Comments While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions. When you, a family member, or a friend are in this situation, what should you do next?...
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Exit Strategy: Thinking Outside the Box
by Michelle Cromer Publisher Comments A warmhearted, witty, and beautifully illustrated guide to the most important exit any of us will ever make: how we choose to leave this life. If you thought a dreary and expensive funeral arranged by professional morticians was your only option-think...
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The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change
by David E Stannard Publisher Comments The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and...
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