Showing titles in Death & Dying

Qu’est-ce qu’une expérience de mort imminente ? Comment expliquer ce phénomène ? 10 février 2004. Fabienne Raoul fait un malaise cardiaque sur son lieu de travail et bascule dans un « ailleurs » sans aucune limite. Enveloppée d’une onde d’amour, elle entre en contact avec des êtres lumineux emplis de sagesse. Bouleversée par cette expérience de mort imminente, elle revient métamorphosée.

Durch über 35 Jahre Erfahrungen in der Pflege und Begleitung von Sterbenden und deren Angehörigen erlebte die Autorin viele einschneidende Momente, die sie tief berührten. Im Laufe der Zeit wurde der Tod ihr Freund. Durch ihn erwachte ihr Bewusstsein, dass er auch sie eines Tages besuchen und von dieser Welt mitnehmen wird. Der Schmerz war jahrelang ihr Lehrer und sie machte sich selbst auf den Weg der Vergebung. Schritt für Schritt verstand sie immer mehr, wie wichtig es ist BEWUSST zu LEBEN - JETZT, um eines Tages glücklich zu sterben.

So many of us have lost someone or something we love, and have had to deal with the ups and downs of life. In this book, Renée R. Bridgewater shares how to effectively maneuver through the maze of emotions and rekindle your authentic joy, love, and peace of mind to live your life to the fullest.

Bringt uns die Medizin das ewige Leben? Wollen wir das überhaupt? Während die Religion von jeher ein Leben nach dem Tod anbietet, hat die Heilkunde dafür keinen Plan. Deshalb lautet das oberste Gebot der Medizin: Der Tod muss um jeden Preis bekämpft, das Sterben mit allen Mitteln verzögert werden. Die Gesundheitsindustrie dominiert unser Leben von der Zeugung bis zum Tod. Nun erweiterte sie ihr Angebot von der Heilung zum Versprechen der ewigen Instandhaltung.

Según datos de la OMS, el suicidio es la segunda causa de defunción entre las personas jóvenes, con un total aproximado de 800 000 muertes al año a nivel mundial. Esto lo convierte en uno de los problemas de salud mental más preocupantes del presente, situación que se agrava debido a la creciente desigualdad económica y social, así como a la depresión debida a la pandemia por covid-19.

Evelyn Amdur, a hospice social worker, began to write these stories midway through her career, collaborating with her daughter, Shelley. Many traditional cultures have a custom of "death songs", which rest on the idea that at one's last moment, one somehow sums up the essence of one's life in a phrase or a song. Woven into these stories are instructions on how to die well, not only in what spirit we face death itself, but also through instructions on what is necessary to prepare our families, to ready our estates, and to manage all the players who may be involved in our deaths.

Ein Notarzt und kein Buch vom "Leben retten". Viele "Retter", Ärzte, Krankenschwestern und –pfleger, kurz Menschen, die regelmäßig mit dem Tod anderer Menschen konfrontiert sind, pflegen einen eigenen Umgang mit dem Thema "Leben und Sterben": Während der Tod gesellschaftlich häufig keinen Platz im Alltag findet (oder finden darf) und daher aus dem täglichen Gespräch lieber ausgespart wird, sind wir es gewohnt, offen darüber zu reden.

British writer William Hazlitt was the most brilliant essayist of his day. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. During his last illness, Hazlitt wrote this essay on a topic that most people will recognize. Hazlitt did not fear his own demise, and in this thoughtful essay, he explains why no one needs to give in to such a fear.

Christy, a fourth-grade teacher, and her husband, Brian, are raising two adorable children ages 4 and 7 in Onalaska, WI. But Christy has two other children—twins—who died shortly after being born at 21 weeks.

The Tree of Life: What Earth Depends On by Karina Laranjeira is the author’s attempt to reach out to as many individuals as possible and help them understand why it is so important to change a very old habit to keep Earth healthy. Exploring the ins and outs of the funeral business, Laranjeira brings to light the incremental damage caused by environmentally unfriendly funeral rituals. Laranjeira talks about the toxins that run underneath the soil because of the terrible malpractices of the multibillion-dollar funeral industry and its terrible impact on climate change.

This book is about death: how we approach it, and how families, and those breathing their last, might deal with it. While the author has been surrounded by death for decades, putting these words to “paper” was the result of the impending death of a friend and colleague, a professor of political science and a fighter for social and economic justice. The book’s rationale is to assist the family of the dying human—and perhaps the dying person themselves—as they attempt to navigate our byzantine, inefficient, and, too often, inhumane health system.

Mary Artino is a medical social worker with a 15-year career in hospice. She feels that loss is a subject that isn't addressed often enough in American culture and that much more can be done to begin teaching children about loss and death. This book is a collection of short stories that begins with her own experiences with death and loss within her family. The author believes that death is one of our most profound teachers. In writing Lessons on Loss Not Taught, Mary hopes to demystify the end-of-life experience, making it less foreboding and more relatable.

Death in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected, composted, dissolved, or tanned. Your family can incorporate your remains into jewelry, shotgun shells, paperweights, and artwork. Cremations have more than doubled, and DIY home funerals and green burials are on the rise. American Afterlives is Shannon Lee Dawdy’s lyrical and compassionate account of changing death practices in America as people face their own mortality and search for a different kind of afterlife.

Memento vivere è una serie che esplora il tabù della morte nella nostra società, attraverso un viaggio che tocca diversi temi ma che punta a una sola destinazione: conoscere il senso della morte per imparare ad apprezzare più intensamente la vita.

È vero che la morte è diventata tabù, che la società moderna la nega e la nasconde più di quelle premoderne, condannando all'isolamento chi sta per lasciare questo mondo? Ed è forse per questo che i medici mentono al malato, e gli nascondono le cattive notizie sulla sua salute? È vero che la medicina moderna è rivolta solo al prolungamento della vita e all'ostinazione terapeutica, mentre trascura le esigenze e le sofferenze dei malati terminali?

Der Tod ist noch immer eines der größten Tabuthemen in Deutschland. In diesem Original Podcast widmen sich die Journalisten Christoph Schrag und Hendrik Schröder dem großen schwarzen Fleck.

The Widow's Survival Guide shows women that they are strong enough to survive and thrive in life after loss. Within The Widow's Survival Guide, Charity Pimentel-Hyams, a widow at 37 with children aged five, three, and one at the time of her husband’s tragic and unexpected death, takes women through the challenges and triumphs of young widowhood.

When journalist Tom Morton suffered a heart attack in 2015, his close encounter with death led him on an extraordinary journey into the world of the dead. He decided to train to become the only independent funeral celebrant on the remote Shetland islands. Armed with a new black suit and a second-hand undertaker's coat, Tom quickly learned that death requires you to think on your feet, and often to take a magpie approach to faith and philosophy.

We are all part of the circle of life; however most of us just go round and round each year until we die and fall off. To discover what else is possible, we need to find the way. Join Adrian Gilbert as he explains the circle, how to prepare for the journey, and what to look for along the way.

What is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers. Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, 20 writers face this fact.