Death Books


Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying Best Price: $7.99 contains valuable information on what to expect emotionally from and how to interact with a...	On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss Best Price: $7.76 Book was in good condition! Arrived early. Would do business with this seller again.	I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye (Updated Edition): Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One Best Price: $10.30 This book touched on a lot of helpful topics following the loss of a loved one. I gave the book...	Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson Best Price: $1.00 Tuesdays with Morrie is about a professor (Morrie), his former student (Mitch), and their final...	Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon Best Price: $13.48 You have many ways to die in Grand Canyon: fall, jump, get pushed, clown around, drown, starve,...



The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying Best Price: $49.00 I have the third and seventh editions of this book and not surprisingly there is not much...	How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Best Price: $4.10 This book is both a description of the major ways human beings die, at least in developed...	Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, Second Edition Best Price: $8.25 I lost my Mom when I was an adult of 32. Even though this book goes through different age...	The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order Best Price: $5.29 Joan Wickersham's The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order is best described as...	The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds Best Price: $18.93 There are several reviews here about the Yaloms' (mother and son) book on American cemeteries....



The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying Best Price: $87.00 The best-selling textbook in the field, The Last Dance offers an interdisciplinary approach to...	On Death and Dying (Scribner Classics) Best Price: $13.87 Kubler-Ross does an outstanding job of synthesizing her years of observation and experience into...	The Denial of Death Best Price: $8.00 While difficult at times, this book is profoundly meaningful. The basic premise that I have...	The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead Best Price: $10.99 Rarely do I not finish a book. I made an exception in this book. I was expecting a book of...	Death Benefits: How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult's Life--For the Better Best Price: $14.50 This book does have some startling things to say, in the direction of getting us to think in new...

When Parents Die: A Guide for Adults Best Price: $7.90 This book saved my life and helped me grieve the loss of my father, nineteen years after my...	Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living Best Price: $6.49 I absolutely loved this book, It has so much useful life information, to me it is a must buy, I...	Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life Best Price: $4.89 I found this book to be inspirational. I also found it to be painful to read. The author faces...	Why Men Die First: How to Lengthen Your Lifespan Best Price: $17.41 This is not the first book on this topic. Dr.Philip Shore, also a medical doctor was a co-author...	The American Way of Death Revisited Best Price: $8.47 This book is perhaps the most informative one I've ever read--witty, sardonic, and...

Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die Best Price: $5.99 From suffocating on bean bag beads to sticking chicken bones up your hole this book has it all,...	My Brother Best Price: $7.27 I'd only ever read a short short story of Jamaica Kincaid's (that I wasn't too impressed by)...	We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love Best Price: $4.20 Loved this book. I learned so much about the history (and present) of South Africa. And what it...	Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner Best Price: $3.26 After you get past this author's overweening ego, he has a great story to tell. First, he...	Death, Society, and the Human Experience (9th Edition) Best Price: $51.99 This textbook explores many issues that people do not want to discuss but the material is...

The Bereaved Parent Best Price: $6.75 When my son died in 1988 I was given several books about death and dying but I could never get...	What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom For The End Of Life Best Price: $6.69 As pointed out in a previous review, this is not a book with the most up-to-date research and...	Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness Best Price: $8.80 As the wife of a young man dying of cancer, this book was an incredible aid to getting through...	Death and Dying: Life and Living Best Price: $114.56 I was really looking forward to the class this book was necessary for. And while I learned a lot...	The Settlement Game: How to Settle an Estate Peacefully and Fairly Best Price: $8.82 This book along with Grandma's Yellow Pie Plate are a must have if you are involved with an...

Mortician Diaries: The Dead-Honest Truth from a Life Spent with Death Best Price: $8.76 I really enjoyed reading this quick read biographical book as I am currently working on my own...	Nothing to Be Frightened Of Best Price: $15.99 Julian Barnes has long been a novelist preoccupied with death. Every one of his previous books...	Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics Best Price: $5.94 The other reviewers will speak better to the great qualities of this book, so I'll echo the best...	Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial Best Price: $5.75 Valuable both for individuals contemplating alternatives and for cemetery managers like myself...	Life and Death: Grappling with the Moral Dilemmas of Our Time Best Price: $58.74 This single-authored, brief text explores the moral dilemmas in our lives from a philosophical...

To Die Well: Your Right to Comfort, Calm, and Choice in the Last Days of Life Best Price: $8.58 This book should be on the shelf of everyone who thinks he or she might indeed die some day, and...	Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 Best Price: $4.05 My grandfather died in the Butte mines decades after the Speculator/Granite Mountain disasters. ...	Good Grief: Healing Through the Shadow of Loss Best Price: $4.89 We lost our 39 year old son in September. Although he had been ill for a number of years, his...	In the Checklist of Life: A Working Book to Help You Live & Leave Life Best Price: $8.00 This book was the most incredible blessing when we lost a loved one recently. The time of a...	The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries (P.S.) Best Price: $0.07 This is a great book for a lazy afternoon. It's amusing and amazing at the same time. Sort of...

Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death Best Price: $7.75 The jisei, known in English as a Death Poem, was an ancient custom in Japan, where literate...	The Archaeology of Death and Burial (Texas a&M University Anthropology, 3) Best Price: $19.36 Written as a great guide to world funerary practices for undergraduates and the curious...	Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death and Grief: Diversity in Universality (Series in Death Education, Aging and Health Care) Best Price: $30.97 This volume is directed towards professionals who work in the fields concerning death and dying....	Remembering Well: Rituals for Celebrating Life and Mourning Death Best Price: $12.13 Somewhat disappointed with the overabundance of examples that overpowered balance with...	Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System Best Price: $8.43 Our Mother recently passed away peacefully in the care of Hospice and my Brother. We had opted...

The American Book of Dying: Lessons In Healing Spiritual Pain Best Price: $11.99 This book gives great spiritual insight to end of life issues and offers alternative therapies.	The Dominion of the Dead Best Price: $8.28 As could be expected, Robert Pogue Harrison presents a thoughtful and elegant meditation on...	Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death Best Price: $6.95 I enjoyed reading this book, and to me the best part were the websites listed in the back....	Handbook Of Bereavement Research And Practice: Advances in Theory and Intervention Best Price: $42.17 In this state-of-the-art volume, leading international scholars and clinicians provide a...	The Healing Journey Through Grief: Your Journal for Reflection and Recovery Best Price: $16.46 I purchased this book three times, the first was when my sister passed; but,I never used it for...

Annual Editions: Dying, Death, and Bereavement 08/09 (Dying, Death, and Bereavement) Best Price: $25.59 This book is interest with articles about people dealing with death and dying. Very good.	And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life Best Price: $11.69 All that can be said about this book has been said already in other reviews. It is a well...	Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History) Best Price: $11.21 i had a certain agenda in reading this book . . . there is a conspiracy of silence regarding...	The Suicidal Mind Best Price: $11.40 Shneidman saves lives. He is a thanatologist: he studies death and specializes in suicide. He...	The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died Best Price: $3.89 The Portable Obituary (Michael Largo, 2007). The jacket of this book reads, "A luridly...

A Safe Place For Caleb: An Interactive Book For Kids, Teens And Adults With Issues Of Attachment, Grief, Loss Or Early Trauma Best Price: $21.72 An excellent guide for parents, children, foster parents, adoptive parents and anyone in general...

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