The American Way of Death
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Author | : Bernd Heinrich |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0544002261 |
From beetles to bald eagles, ravens to wolves, Heinrich reveals the fascinating and mostly hidden post-death world that occurs around us constantly, while examining the ancient and important role we humans, too, play as scavengers, connecting death to life. --
Author | : Bryan Mellonie |
Publisher | : Paw Prints |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 9781442004931 |
Explains that different plants and animals have different lifespans and grow up at different rates
Author | : Katy Butler |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451641982 |
Outlines a less invasive, more humane approach to end-of-life care, sharing the stories of the author's parents and explaining the political and technological factors that are interfering with patient preferences.
Author | : Eric Layer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2020-09-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781735610924 |
Funeral service is dying. Cremation rates are sky-high, new competitors pop up every day, and an entire generation of funeral home owners are considering closing shop. But a thriving future is still possible. Eric Layer paints a vivid picture of what's threatening death care and everything mortuary owners need to know about how to save it.
Author | : Mario Marazziti |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1609805682 |
Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of “justice” that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied. Yet the United States—along with countries notorious for human rights abuse—remains an advocate for the death penalty. In these thirteen pieces, Mario Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in this country, and urges us to join virtually every other industrialized democracy in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice belonging to a crueler time in human history. A polemical book, yes, yet one that brings together a wide range of stories to compel the heart as well the mind.
Author | : Robert Kastenbaum |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2004-05-20 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0520218809 |
A profound look at how death and dying is understood, negotiated, and experienced by different cultures.
Author | : Seneca |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-02-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1400889480 |
Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca "It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. How to Die gathers in one volume, for the first time, Seneca's remarkable meditations on death and dying. Edited and translated by James S. Romm, How to Die reveals a provocative thinker and dazzling writer who speaks with a startling frankness about the need to accept death or even, under certain conditions, to seek it out. Seneca believed that life is only a journey toward death and that one must rehearse for death throughout life. Here, he tells us how to practice for death, how to die well, and how to understand the role of a good death in a good life. He stresses the universality of death, its importance as life's final rite of passage, and its ability to liberate us from pain, slavery, or political oppression. Featuring beautifully rendered new translations, How to Die also includes an enlightening introduction, notes, the original Latin texts, and an epilogue presenting Tacitus's description of Seneca's grim suicide.
Author | : Jessica Mitford |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-11-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307809390 |
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade." Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb. "Brilliant--hilarious. . . . A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime."--New York Post "Witty and penetrating--it speaks the truth."--The Washington Post
Author | : Freeman Wills Crofts |
Publisher | : House of Stratus Limited |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2000-10-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781842323878 |
Work on the widening of the Southern Railway's south coast route results in two mysterious deaths. Murder becomes apparent. As evidence is sifted through and minute detail and data analysed, tension mounts ...