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Offers insight into healthcare practices, identifying the cellular sources of aging and illness and revealing that aggressive treatments provide an illusion of control and survivability at the cost of life quality.
"Bestselling author ... Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, NATURAL...
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"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people--morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners--who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
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Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks...
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"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the...
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The prospect of death requires more than messages that console us or philosophies that immunize us from its actual implications. Whether you are approaching your own death, facing the death of a loved-one, or are simply wanting to understand the purpose of this brief and mortal life, you will find unique and transformative help in these pages. Easy Death-described by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross as a "masterpiece"-offers real wisdom from one who is...
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Very often, when the subject of funerals comes up, the direction of the conversation tends to lead people to discuss what they would want for their own funeral. "I just want a big party," "I'd really like Father Patrick to perform the Mass," "I want to be buried in my Vikings jersey." People frequently have very specific wishes that never become more concrete than being briefly mentioned in these conversations. It is amazing how a little bit of thought...
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No one who reads this book will ever again think of his or her own death in the same way. The first part of the book consists of a thought-provoking essay, in which Fingarette examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as the denial of death, and selflessness as a kind of consolation. He also thinks through some of the more illuminating metaphors: death as the end of the world for me, death as the conclusion...
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Thoughtful, amusing, and provocative, Making an Exit will transform the way you look at life's last passage. Because, as Murray discovers, death is, for many, not an ending but the start of something new.
Author and journalist Sarah Murray never gave much thought to what might ultimately happen to her remains-that was, until her father died. While he'd always insisted that the "organic matter" left after a person takes their last breath had no significance,...
10) Fearing Death
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The Holy Spirit said about Philemon, "I gave Paul the exact words to use (pun intended). See verse 10. Onesimus was fine. His masters weren't too happy with him. But all worked out well in the end." When I was learning more about the Holy Spirit, I wondered what His role was in creating the Bible. So, I asked Him. And He answered. This Volume VIII is a compilation of what the Holy Spirit said about Paul's letters. I discovered that He really enjoys...
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An unusually comprehensive study of death as both a social and scientific phenomenon, When We Die is as frank as it is informed. This far-reaching discussion considers mortality from the personal and the universal perspective, generously citing past and present poets and physicians from a diverse and telling range of traditions. Mims, who for two decades served as Professor of Microbiology at London's Guys Hospital, brings a humane, inquisitive, and...
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Au Québec, la formation pratique occupe une place centrale dans le parcours scolaire des étudiants en travail social. Elle se situe au cœur du processus d'intégration théorie-pratique et s'avère essentielle au développement de praticiens réflexifs, engagés et critiques. L'accompagnement en formation pratique est complexe, notamment au regard de ses enjeux, diversité des lieux de stage, nombre élevé d'acteurs impliqués, situation de vulnérabilité...
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"The word death is not pronounced in New York, in Paris, in London, because it burns the lips.The Mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it, it is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love."Thus Octavio Paz describes a cultural phenomenon that has for centuries fascinated scholars and aficionados of virtually every field of Mexican studies, "el culto a la muerte," the cult of...
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When her daughter's fiancé died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg was surprised to see how her daughter intuitively re-created the traditional rituals of mourning, even those of which she was ignorant. Intrigued, Ashenburg began to explore the rich and endlessly inventive choreographies different cultures and times have devised to mark a universal and deeply felt plight.
Contemporary North American culture favors a mourning that is private and virtually...
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David Welborn has a unique profession. He transports the dead from where they fell, and in whatever condition they passed. Car accidents, suicides, homicides, and drug overdoses become common place for him as he grapples these horrors. He soon realizes that this tight knit profession is unknown to most of the world. Few people think of who gathers the deceased when they see a fatal car accident or hear of a murder. Often sent on the worst of the worst...
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The strength of the right-to-die movement was underscored as early as 1991, when Derek Humphry published Final Exit, the movement's call to arms that inspired literally hundreds of thousands of Americans who wished to understand the concepts of assisted suicide and the right to die with dignity. Now Humphry has joined forces with attorney Mary Clement to write Freedom to Die, which places this civil rights story within the framework of American social...
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Get the Summary of Margaret Renkl's Late Migrations in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Late Migrations" by Margaret Renkl is a poignant exploration of the interconnectedness of life, death, and the natural world. Renkl weaves together a rich tapestry of personal anecdotes, family history, and observations of nature. The narrative spans from her childhood memories in Alabama to her experiences as a mother in Tennessee,...
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Within most disciplines, there are those who are recognized by their colleagues as being exceptionally competent practitioners. These individuals do their work in such a remarkable way as to become a model for others. This book is based on a study of the beliefs, actions, and interactions of a group of extraordinary oncology nurses-the people their peers would choose to have care for them if they were diagnosed with cancer. Perry's weaving of interviewee's...