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Sorry for Your Loss
- By: Kate Marshall
- Narrated by: Catherine Harvey
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each month exploring the people she meets, in life and death, as well as her own growing awareness of life behind the veil....
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A great but repetitive story
- By Mrs P Teaches on 15-11-22
By: Kate Marshall
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Mortal Monarchs
- 1,000 Years of Royal Deaths
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths to present a humorous deep-dive into the varied—and oft-gruesome—deaths of the king and queens of England and Scotland....
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Superb but with some factual errors
- By Stevie on 07-06-23
By: Suzie Edge
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Buried
- An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
- By: Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead....
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Wonderful author narration
- By Dave Baker on 12-07-22
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Briefly Perfectly Human
- Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
- By: Alua Arthur
- Narrated by: Alua Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life....
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A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
- Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021
- By: Peter Ross
- Narrated by: Peter Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards....
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Poignant and moving
- By AmazonCustomer on 15-09-20
By: Peter Ross
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The Long Grief Journey
- How Long-Term Unresolved Grief Can Affect Your Mental Health and What to Do About It
- By: Pamela D. Blair PhD, Bradie McCabe Hansen MA
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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The Long Grief Journey, cowritten by a psychotherapist and a clinical psychologist who have both worked with grieving individuals for decades, is for the people who are past the acute pain and effects of a sudden loss and are now learning to live beyond that....
By: Pamela D. Blair PhD, and others
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Sorry for Your Loss
- By: Kate Marshall
- Narrated by: Catherine Harvey
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each month exploring the people she meets, in life and death, as well as her own growing awareness of life behind the veil....
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A great but repetitive story
- By Mrs P Teaches on 15-11-22
By: Kate Marshall
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Mortal Monarchs
- 1,000 Years of Royal Deaths
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths to present a humorous deep-dive into the varied—and oft-gruesome—deaths of the king and queens of England and Scotland....
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Superb but with some factual errors
- By Stevie on 07-06-23
By: Suzie Edge
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Buried
- An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
- By: Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead....
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Wonderful author narration
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By: Alice Roberts
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Briefly Perfectly Human
- Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
- By: Alua Arthur
- Narrated by: Alua Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life....
By: Alua Arthur
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A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
- Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021
- By: Peter Ross
- Narrated by: Peter Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards....
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Poignant and moving
- By AmazonCustomer on 15-09-20
By: Peter Ross
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The Long Grief Journey
- How Long-Term Unresolved Grief Can Affect Your Mental Health and What to Do About It
- By: Pamela D. Blair PhD, Bradie McCabe Hansen MA
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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The Long Grief Journey, cowritten by a psychotherapist and a clinical psychologist who have both worked with grieving individuals for decades, is for the people who are past the acute pain and effects of a sudden loss and are now learning to live beyond that....
By: Pamela D. Blair PhD, and others
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The Madness of Grief
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- By: Reverend Richard Coles
- Narrated by: Richard Coles
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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The Reverend Richard Coles's deeply personal account of life after grief will resonate, unforgettably, with anyone who has lost a loved one....
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Everyone needs this book
- By MS RUTH SHAW on 01-04-21
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Die Wise
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- By: Stephen Jenkinson
- Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
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Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well....
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Brilliant
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Ashes to Admin
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- By: Evie King
- Narrated by: Evie King, Stewart Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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What happens if you die without family or money? The answer to this very three-in-the-morning question is that Evie, or someone like her, will step in and arrange your funeral....
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Amazing and heartwarming x
- By Sallieann on 31-03-24
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Autopsy
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- By: Ryan Blumenthal
- Narrated by: Ettienne Durandt
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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As a medical detective of the modern world, forensic pathologist Ryan Blumenthal’s chief goal is to bring perpetrators to justice. He has performed thousands of autopsies, which have helped bring numerous criminals to book....
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Interesting to say the least
- By Ashen Gomes on 03-04-24
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The Unclaimed
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- By: Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed....
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Death by Shakespeare
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- By: Kathryn Harkup
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters. Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die....
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Fascinating!
- By Ian Smith on 31-03-20
By: Kathryn Harkup
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The Other Side of Sadness
- What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss
- By: George A. Bonanno
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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In this thoroughly revised and updated classic, a renowned psychologist shows that mourning is far from predictable, and all of us share a surprising ability to be resilient....
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Sounds like software
- By Emmet Cooke on 10-08-21
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- By: Anne Case, Angus Deaton
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....
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Authors exceed their field of knowledge
- By Customer on 30-06-20
By: Anne Case, and others
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Extra Time
- 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
- By: Camilla Cavendish
- Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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The Western world is undergoing a dramatic demographic shift. By 2020, for the first time in history, the number of people aged 65 and over will outnumber children aged five and under. But our systems are lagging woefully behind this new reality....
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Very relevant
- By Carolyn Tsalos on 21-05-19
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Life Lessons
- Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living
- By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler
- Narrated by: David Kessler, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Here, in 14 accessible chapters, from the "Lesson of Love" to the "Lesson of Happiness", the authors reveal the truth about our fears....
By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and others
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The Weird and the Eerie
- By: Mark Fisher
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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What exactly are the weird and the eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes....
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A fantastic view into what makes up the uncanny aspects of our media landscape
- By Amazon Customer on 14-12-21
By: Mark Fisher
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Stiff
- The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- By: Mary Roach
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 8 hrs
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An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....
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This is so cool!
- By Ian on 13-03-16
By: Mary Roach
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When Your Soulmate Dies
- A Guide to Healing Through Heroic Mourning
- By: Alan D. Wolfelt
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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You were one of the lucky ones. You found a partner or friend with whom you shared a deeply profound connection. You understood, opened fully to, served, and challenged one another. But now that your partner has died, what felt like luck may have turned to wretched despair....
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Heavens on Earth
- The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
- By: Dr. Michael Shermer
- Narrated by: Dr. Michael Shermer, David Smalley
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality by radical life extentionists, extropians, transhumanists....
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Boring and distasteful
- By Amazon Customer on 15-01-18
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Confessions of a Funeral Director
- How the Business of Death Saved My Life
- By: Caleb Wilde
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
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Confessions of a Funeral Director is the story of one man learning how death illuminates and deepens the meaning of existence....
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Boring
- By Kindle Customer on 25-08-21
By: Caleb Wilde
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The Coffin Confessor
- By: Bill Edgar
- Narrated by: Bill Edgar
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest in peace....
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Fantastic
- By Amazon Customer on 26-01-24
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Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
- By: Sameet M. Kumar PhD
- Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare
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Grief is a personal journey, never the same for any two people and as unique as your life and your relationships....
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The Third Man Factor
- Surviving the Impossible
- By: John Geiger
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The Third Man Factor is an extraordinary account of how people at the very edge of death often sense an unseen presence beside them who encourages them survive....
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Wonderful examples used in this book.
- By Anonymous User on 30-12-23
By: John Geiger
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One Thousand Days and One Cup of Tea
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- By: Vanessa Moore
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Vanessa's husband, Paul, dies suddenly and tragically on their regular Sunday morning swim....
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compelling
- By Jane Francis on 27-10-22
By: Vanessa Moore
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Death Interrupted
- How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die
- By: Blair Bigham
- Narrated by: Robert Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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In Death Interrupted, Dr Blair Bigham seeks to help listeners understand the options facing them at the end of their lives....
By: Blair Bigham
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Savor
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- By: Fatima Ali, Tarajia Morrell - contributor
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A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in this stunning, lyrical memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to New York City and beyond....
By: Fatima Ali, and others
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A Short History of Falling
- Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying
- By: Joe Hammond
- Narrated by: Russell Tovey
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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In 2018, Joe Hammond, wrote a piece for the Guardian about the 33 birthday cards he was writing for his two sons....
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Awful awful
- By VRJust on 07-12-20
By: Joe Hammond
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Last Rites
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- By: Todd Harra
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Author and undertaker Todd Harra shares a fascinating and oft-surprising exploration of the history and meaning of funeral rituals....
By: Todd Harra
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Over Our Dead Bodies
- Undertakers Lift the Lid
- By: Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzie
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A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who has to make it all go as planned - even if it doesn't....
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Interesting but frustrating narration
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Your Last Gift
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- By: Matthew Hutton
- Narrated by: Matthew Hutton
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Matthew noticed a number of friends dying without leaving much vital information. In some cases, they had not even made a Will. The family was left to pick up the pieces. Death is challenging enough - and something we will all face - but by having your affairs in order, it will make the process a whole lot easier and kinder.
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Briefly Perfectly Human
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- By: Alua Arthur
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- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life. Warm, generous, and funny AF, Alua supports and helps manage end-of-life care on many levels.
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And Always One More Time
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- By: Margaret Mandell
- Narrated by: Margaret Mandell
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Every year, more than a million women find themselves grappling with the devastating loss of a life partner—a loss that shatters their present and leaves their future in doubt. At 65, Margaret Mandell faces this heart-wrenching reality when she loses her husband of 45 years to a fast-moving disease. The bed is now half-empty, her body betrays her, and laughter seems elusive.
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Preserved
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- By: Dean G. Lampros
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Funeral homes are immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the history of this uniquely American architectural icon to explore the twentieth century's expanding consumer landscape and reveal how buildings can help construct identities.
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Why We Die
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- By: Venki Ramakrishnan
- Narrated by: John Moraitis
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The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Our fear of death has underpinned our religions, inspired our cultures, and also driven our science. Today we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we age and die, and why some species live longer than others. Immortality, once a faint hope, has never been more within our grasp. Here, Nobel Prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan offers a definitive look at why we die - and whether we can do anything about it.
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Mildly mis- titled
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After the Worst Day Ever
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- By: Duane R. Bidwell
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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As anyone with a chronic illness knows, hope can sometimes be hard to come by. For parents and caregivers of children with serious illness, there can be a real struggle to move beyond one's own grief, fear, and suffering to see what hope means for these kids.
By: Duane R. Bidwell
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Your Last Gift
- Getting Your Affairs in Order
- By: Matthew Hutton
- Narrated by: Matthew Hutton
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Matthew noticed a number of friends dying without leaving much vital information. In some cases, they had not even made a Will. The family was left to pick up the pieces. Death is challenging enough - and something we will all face - but by having your affairs in order, it will make the process a whole lot easier and kinder.
By: Matthew Hutton
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Briefly Perfectly Human
- Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
- By: Alua Arthur
- Narrated by: Alua Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life. Warm, generous, and funny AF, Alua supports and helps manage end-of-life care on many levels.
By: Alua Arthur
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And Always One More Time
- A Memoir
- By: Margaret Mandell
- Narrated by: Margaret Mandell
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Every year, more than a million women find themselves grappling with the devastating loss of a life partner—a loss that shatters their present and leaves their future in doubt. At 65, Margaret Mandell faces this heart-wrenching reality when she loses her husband of 45 years to a fast-moving disease. The bed is now half-empty, her body betrays her, and laughter seems elusive.
By: Margaret Mandell
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Preserved
- A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America
- By: Dean G. Lampros
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Funeral homes are immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the history of this uniquely American architectural icon to explore the twentieth century's expanding consumer landscape and reveal how buildings can help construct identities.
By: Dean G. Lampros
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Why We Die
- And How We Live: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity
- By: Venki Ramakrishnan
- Narrated by: John Moraitis
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Our fear of death has underpinned our religions, inspired our cultures, and also driven our science. Today we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we age and die, and why some species live longer than others. Immortality, once a faint hope, has never been more within our grasp. Here, Nobel Prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan offers a definitive look at why we die - and whether we can do anything about it.
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Mildly mis- titled
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After the Worst Day Ever
- What Sick Kids Know About Sustaining Hope in Chronic Illness
- By: Duane R. Bidwell
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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As anyone with a chronic illness knows, hope can sometimes be hard to come by. For parents and caregivers of children with serious illness, there can be a real struggle to move beyond one's own grief, fear, and suffering to see what hope means for these kids.
By: Duane R. Bidwell
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The Price of Life
- In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides
- By: Jenny Kleeman
- Narrated by: Jenny Kleeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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We say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice. In a world in love with data, it is possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on anything – including life itself. For philanthropists, judges, criminals, healthcare providers and government ministers, it’s just part of the job. In The Price of Life, journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on an adventure to meet some of the people who decide what we're worth.
By: Jenny Kleeman
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The Unclaimed
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- By: Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
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In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.
By: Pamela Prickett, and others
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Cloistered
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- By: Catherine Coldstream
- Narrated by: Catherine Coldstream
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Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, and a haven after the loss of her father, Catherine Coldstream trusts herself to a group of twenty silent women, believing she is trusting herself to God. As the beauty and mystery of an ancient way of life enfolds her, she surrenders herself wholly to its power, only to find that all is not as it seems behind the Order's closed doors. Cut off from the wider world for decades, the community has managed to evade accountability to any authority beyond itself.
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An insight into a closed world
- By Andy on 12-03-24
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Waiting for the Monsoon
- By: Rod Nordland
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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For thirty years, Rod Nordland shadowed death. As one of his generation's preeminent war correspondents, he reported in over 150 countries, many of which were in violent upheaval, and was no stranger to witnessing tragedy. But in summer 2019, during the height of India’s erratic monsoon season, Nordland was suddenly faced with a tragedy of his own: he collapsed in the middle of a morning jog, was rushed to the hospital, and diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor.
By: Rod Nordland
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Our Ghosts Were Once People
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- By: Bongani Kona
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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Death is a fact of life, but the experience of grief is unique to each of us. This timely collection brings together a range of voices to offer reflections on death and dying, from individual losses to large scale catastrophes. Karin Schimke revisits her troubled relationship with her late father, a Second World War survivor ‘whose brain had been broken by violence’. Madeleine Fullard, the head of South Africa’s Missing Persons Task Team, draws us into the search for activists who were ‘disappeared’ or went missing in political circumstances between 1960 and 1994.
By: Bongani Kona
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A Spectrum of Legacies
- The Gifts You Leave for Your Children and the Community
- By: Mark A. Weber
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Weber offers listeners practical advice about how to use family meetings to provide financial education for children and strengthen family ties. A Spectrum of Legacies includes case studies, sample worksheets, and letters from Weber’s long experience as an advisor to affluent families. Listeners can use A Spectrum of Legacies to create legacies that pass their financial assets in a way that reflects their personal values, teaches their children, and benefits their communities.
By: Mark A. Weber