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  • Education of a Hospice Doctor
    Gregory L. Phelps / Gregory LPhelps
    I was in a Panera’s taking a quick minute between patients to scarf down some food. Sitting alone, I was surrounded by the buzz of couples dining and friends meeting -- including an animated threesome of middle-aged women at the table next to me. My phone rang; it was one of my nurses calling about a patient in pain. I asked a few questions and then said, 'OK well increase the ...
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    17,57 €

  • Aftercare Solutions Manual
    Linda Findlay / Lynda Cheldelin Fell
    Aligned with the NFDA’s Pursuit of Excellence, the Certified Aftercare Specialist™ is the only accredited training developed exclusively for funeral professionals. Filled with quality aftercare components and how to implement each one, the certification gives funeral firms the tools and verbiage to connect with clients and extend a continuity of care that offers competitive adv...
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    77,21 €

  • Dancing Past the Dark
    MA Nancy Evans Bush
    Almost one in every five near-death experiences (NDEs) is not a visit to heaven. Some are marked by alarm, emptiness, threat, guilt, or even the terror of hell or psychosis. How to understand them? Here is a book that gives readers more to go on than old wives’ tales and medieval theological images.Dancing Past the Dark is a comprehensive overview of near-death experiences in g...
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    19,57 €

  • Till Death Do Us Part
    Contributions by Allan Amanik, Kelly B. Arehart, Sue Fawn Chung, Kami Fletcher, Rosina Hassoun, James S. Pula, Jeffrey E. Smith, and Martina Will de ChaparroTill Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed explores the tendency among most Americans to separate their dead along communal lines rooted in race, faith, ethnicity, or social standing and asks wha...
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    158,11 €

  • Till Death Do Us Part
    Contributions by Allan Amanik, Kelly B. Arehart, Sue Fawn Chung, Kami Fletcher, Rosina Hassoun, James S. Pula, Jeffrey E. Smith, and Martina Will de ChaparroTill Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed explores the tendency among most Americans to separate their dead along communal lines rooted in race, faith, ethnicity, or social standing and asks wha...
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    49,95 €

  • Funeral Customs
    Bertram S. Puckle / Bertram SPuckle
    First published in 1926, Bertram S. Puckle’s 'Funeral Customs' is a comprehensive account of traditional funerary traditions and customs throughout history and from all over the world. From lost ancient practices to the first graveyards and cemeteries, this volume sheds light on how we as humans have dealt with death and the dead over the ages. Contents include: 'The Provisions...
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    22,17 €

  • American Military Cemeteries, 2d ed.
    Dean W. Holt
    This updated edition of the 1992 reference work ('exhaustive...fascinating'--Library Journal) contains comprehensive information about United States military cemeteries, including how each cemetery was chosen, why it was established, and notable individuals buried therein. Covered are cemeteries operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of the Army, the Nat...
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    59,18 €

  • No More Gun Violence
    David Y. Weiss / David YWeiss
    Are we headed to doomsday or resurrection? Gun violence is an epidemic that will not go away, infect it will intensify with vengeance that we never experienced before; it is not a prophecy it is a fact of life! Culture, political and economic in-equalities will widen the gap between rich and poor that will result in unexpected rifts and conflicts that in turn will result in unc...
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    25,76 €

  • Caring through the Funeral
    Gene Fowler
    Caring through the Funeral is a guidebook to take pastors through the complete funeral process, from the moment the call is received to the weeks following the funeral. More than just a ''how-to,'' Caring through the Funeral uniquely addresses the funeral process from the perspective of pastoral ministry--of pastoral caring throughout the time of mourning, from the death throug...
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    21,04 €

  • Caring through the Funeral
    Gene Fowler
    Caring through the Funeral is a guidebook to take pastors through the complete funeral process, from the moment the call is received to the weeks following the funeral. More than just a ''how-to,'' Caring through the Funeral uniquely addresses the funeral process from the perspective of pastoral ministry--of pastoral caring throughout the time of mourning, from the death throug...
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    34,67 €

  • TWO DOGS, TWO GRIEFS
    Debra J. Bilton / Debra JBilton
    It was a difficult year. Her doctor diagnosed her with dementia caregiver burnout, while she was also experiencing workplace stress. And Toby, an elderly dog with colitis, became lame and then was dying. He died alone with her in her room.Debra lost two beloved canine companions in less than six years. Farley was the first and Toby was the second. The way she grieved the death ...
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    18,49 €

  • The Bereavement Code
    Jack Wilson
    That Gut-Wrenching, Agonizing Feeling – Can You Make It Go Away?When you feel like you can’t go on and the pain of grief actually turns into a powerful physical ache… Is there a way to start recovering and going back to life as usual after the loss of a loved one?The loss of a loved one always has a physical expression. There will be a huge void in your life that simply can’t b...
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    14,28 €

  • Principles and Practice of Grief Counseling, Third Edition
    This core introductory text, with a focus on clinical application, combines the knowledge and skills of counselingpsychology with current theory and research in grief and bereavement. The third edition is updated to addressissues related to the developmental aspects of grief, including grief in children and young people, grief as a lifespanconcept, and grief in an increasingly ...
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    102,72 €

  • Music and Death
    Music is often our companion when dealing with the incomprehensibility of loss. This edited collection speaks to the multifarious and complex ways in which music accompanies, supplements, and complements aspects of death and dying, whether this is the death of a loved one, or a celebrity from popular culture. ...
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    143,29 €

  • Journey Home
    Dan Gaffney
    Journey Home is a set of essays about living and dying with an open heart. While many of us fear death and dying, these essays argue that embracing life and death can help us reclaim a richness we’re denied in a death-phobic culture. What’s more, opening our hearts can help us celebrate the preciousness of life and craft a life-affirming legacy for our families and loved ones.S...
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    11,86 €

  • Coping with Dying
    George A. F. Seber
    A valuable booklet which describes in detail what a caregiver can expect when a person is dying.This end-of-life process can be unsettling if you don’t know what is going on. For example, some symptoms may appear to be more serious than they really are. Information is given about the availability of Hospice care.Also described are all the legal and other things that need to be ...
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    9,07 €

  • The Deritualization of Death
    Charles Lynn Gibson
    The problematic field of investigation for this study was for the care of bereaved human beings in the context of significant cultural shifts now shaping the twenty-first century. Deritualization was identified as a significant interdisciplinary concern that contributes to potential distress in processes of grieving. The objective of the research was the development of a practi...
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    131,63 €

  • the Light
    Jim Alexander
    ‘the Light’ explores a world where you wake up and know this is the day you die. How would such a world shape the way we think, our views on each other and society, how we conduct our personal and financial affairs; how we live and how we will die?On a daily basis, people are required to take the Light; a device that ascertains whether this will be their last day. Between inves...
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    10,63 €

  • Executioner’s Hill
    Stephen J. Vicchio / Stephen JVicchio
    Strange things comin’ and goin’ on that hill . . .The guillotine challenges the axe-wielding executioner’s craft. This exploration of capital punishment set in a small Dutch town in 1799 sears with the immediacy of today’s current debate.A play in three acts, Executioner’s Hill explores the dynamics of the death penalty, and challenges attitudes from both sides of the issue. ...
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    13,53 €

  • A Funeral Service
    Paul Hickman
    When grief hits, it’s personal. It can shred your emotions, turn your world upside down, and you may struggle to cope.The sting is with those left behind, and when faced with this extremely personal and painful situation, it can be hard to know what to do next, which is how this book will help.A Funeral Service is a practical guide that can ease families through the process of ...
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    18,58 €

  • Death
    Joan Tollifson
    This book celebrates the great stripping process of aging, dying and spiritual awakening. Beautiful, poignant, at times humorous, transcendent, messy, down to earth, refreshingly honest—the book explores death, and more importantly, being alive, through a rich mix of personal stories and spiritual reflections.Joan writes about her mother’s final years and about being with frien...
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    17,85 €

  • Organ Donation in Japan
    Maria-Keiko Yasuoka
    Organ Donation in Japan: A Medical Anthropological Study by Maria-Keiko Yasuoka reveals insight into Japan as the country with the most severe organ shortages and the lowest numbers of organ donations among medically advanced countries. The history of organ transplantation in Japan is a unique and troubled one. Many academic hypotheses such as cultural barriers, the Japanese co...
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    54,54 €

  • 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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    16,08 €

  • Funerary Practices in the Netherlands
    Brenda Mathijssen / Claudia Venhorst
    This book explores the funerary culture in the Netherlands through a mixture of photographs, figures and case studies. The nine chapters demonstrate the process of funeralising and ideas about death in the Netherlands, providing an overview of contemporary funerary practices and their changes over time. ...
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    84,65 €

  • Vital Signs
    Lee Humber
    Nature is no longer the leading cause of death; society is. This makes health care one of the most important political issues today. This book looks at the reasons behind the declining condition of our bodies, as governments across the world choose to neglect the health of the majority of their citizens.Using hard data taken from service users, Lee Humber constructs a sharp ana...
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    127,33 €

  • Vital Signs
    Lee Humber
    Nature is no longer the leading cause of death; society is. This makes health care one of the most important political issues today. This book looks at the reasons behind the declining condition of our bodies, as governments across the world choose to neglect the health of the majority of their citizens.Using hard data taken from service users, Lee Humber constructs a sharp ana...
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    30,63 €

  • Twilight
    Greg Cornwell
    A nursing home in a rural town. Residents are inexplicably dying earlier than expected, much to the concern of Twilight’s Board.  Who is behind these mysterious deaths? And why? How will they be held to account? And when will the Australian public be given a voice in this crucial issue of end-of-life choice and empowerment.A story that unashamedly promotes death with dignity, c...
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    13,07 €

  • A Dignified Ending
    M.D. Lewis M. Cohen / M.DLewis MCohen / MD Lewis M. Cohen
    Each year, more than one million people and their loved-ones arrive at a decision to cease attempts at curative medical treatments and shift to hospice care, while one-in-five Americans now live in in geographical regions that have established lawful protocols allowing medical aid in dying-also known as assisted suicide. In this powerful new work, Lew Cohen, a psychiatrist and ...
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    41,40 €

  • Mortuary Dialogues
    Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations. The book's key concept, "mortuary dialogue," describes the dif...
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    44,48 €

  • Articulate Necrographies
    Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and its interactions with the living. Traditional anthropology has tended to dichotomize societies where death "speaks" from those where death is "silent" - the latter is deemed "scientific" and the former "religious" or "magical". The collection int...
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    184,16 €


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