Is there life after death? Near death experiences—people coming back from the dead with tales from the other side—have become a worldwide phenomenon. In this book, Rev John Spooner combines expert research, gripping first hand testimony, analysis of scripture and accounts
Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the People and Places We Love
How do we align our end-of-life choices with our values? In a world experiencing a climate crisis and a culture that avoids discussions about death and dying, environmentalist and educator Mallory McDuff takes readers on a journey to discover new, sustainable practices around death and dying.
With a focus on clinical application, this text combines the knowledge and skills of counselling psychology with current theory and research in grief and bereavement. This edition is updated to address issues related to the developmental aspects of grief, including grief in children, grief as a lifespan concept, and grief in an aging demographic.
Encompassing new content on the treatment of grief, loss, and bereavement, this updated and revised fifth edition delivers the most current research and practical information for upper-level students and practitioners alike. New to the fifth edition are updates to the author's Tasks and Mediators of Mourning, new case studies, and valuable ......
Some of the greatest writers in the history of the art-Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Jerzy Kosinski, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Virginia Woolf-all chose to silence themselves by suicide, leaving their families and friends with heartbreak and the world of literature with gaping holes. Their reasons for killing themselves, when known, were ......
A spirited look at how funeral homes impacted American consumerism, the built environment, and national identities.
Funeral homes—those grand, aging mansions repurposed into spaces for embalming, merchandising, funeral services, and housing for the funeral director and their family—are immediately recognizable ......
Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a portrait of the mourning process in children. The volume presents major findings from the Harvard Child Bereavement Study.
An extraordinary account of a Black church that gives its neighbors a space to share grief and find community, No One Left Alone offers a simple truth: the wounded heal best together. In the tradition of writers like Bryan Stevenson, Liz Walker joins healing to justice, showing how community helps us transfigure the traumas that encircle us.