Living Your Dying

Living Your Dying
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Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 0394487877
ISBN-13 : 9780394487878
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Living Your Dying by : Stanley Keleman

"This book is about dying, not about death. We are always dying a big, always giving things up, always having things taken away. Is there a person alive who isn't really curious about what dying is for them? Is there a person alive who wouldn't like to go to their dying full of excitement, without fear and without morbidity? This books tells you how." -- Front cover.

Birth and Death of Meaning

Birth and Death of Meaning
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9781439118429
ISBN-13 : 1439118426
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Birth and Death of Meaning by : Ernest Becker

Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.

Death and Denial

Death and Denial
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Publisher : Praeger
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015056281382
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Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Death and Denial by : Daniel Liechty

The theory of Generative Death Anxiety (GDA) suggests that at the deepest level, human behavior is motivated by the unavoidable need to shield oneself from consciousness of human mortality. Recognition that fear of death and its consequences necessarily colors the affairs of humans clearly runs through the history of religion and philosophy from the most ancient sources to the present. GDA theory is a developing body of research and writing that stands in this line of human thinking about death, giving prominent focus especially to pervasive human mortality anxiety in the range of its symbolic expressions and the behavioral consequences of this anxiety.

With the End in Mind

With the End in Mind
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Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9780316504539
ISBN-13 : 031650453X
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis With the End in Mind by : Kathryn Mannix

For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying. Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar, peaceful, and gentle -- if sorrowful -- transition, death has come to be something from which we shield our eyes, as we prefer to fight desperately against it rather than accept its inevitability. Dr. Kathryn Mannix has studied and practiced palliative care for thirty years. In With the End in Mind , she shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying, and makes a compelling case for the therapeutic power of approaching death not with trepidation, but with openness, clarity, and understanding. Weaving the details of her own experiences as a caregiver through stories of her patients, their families, and their distinctive lives, Dr. Mannix reacquaints us with the universal, but deeply personal, process of dying. With insightful meditations on life, death, and the space between them, With the End in Mind describes the possibility of meeting death gently, with forethought and preparation, and shows the unexpected beauty, dignity, and profound humanity of life coming to an end.

Deceit and Denial

Deceit and Denial
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : 9780520275829
ISBN-13 : 0520275829
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Deceit and Denial by : Gerald Markowitz

Environmental Health I Health Care Policy I History Of Medicine --

Escape from Evil

Escape from Evil
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105000008818
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Escape from Evil by : Ernest Becker

An exploration of the natural history of evil.

Freedom and Destiny

Freedom and Destiny
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0393318427
ISBN-13 : 9780393318425
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Freedom and Destiny by : Rollo May

The popular psychoanalyst examines the continuing tension in our lives between the possibilities that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny. "May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a reputation among both general and critical readers as an accessible and insightful social and psychological theorist. . . . Freedom's characteristics, fruits, and problems; destiny's reality; death; and therapy's place in the confrontation between freedom and destiny are examined. . . . Poets, social critics, artists, and other thinkers are invoked appropriately to support May's theory of freedom and destiny's interdependence."—Library Journal "Especially instructive, even stunning, is Dr. May's willingness to respect mystery. . . .There is, too, at work throughout the book a disciplined yet relaxed clinical mind, inclined to celebrate . . . what Flannery O'Connor called 'mystery and manners,' and to do so in a tactful, meditative manner."—Robert Coles, America

Religion and the Meaning of Life

Religion and the Meaning of Life
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9781108421560
ISBN-13 : 1108421563
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Religion and the Meaning of Life by : Clifford Williams

Explores life's meaning through the lens of belief in God and lived realities including boredom, denial of death, and suicide.

Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology

Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0939165724
ISBN-13 : 9780939165728
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology by : Barbara Roberts

When former Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts' husband, State Senator Frank Roberts, was dying from lung cancer, she had to look inside of herself as well as beyond herself to find ways to survive what felt unbearable. What Barbara Roberts learned during the final year of her husband's life, and her subsequent years of grieving, fill the pages of this honest and inspiring new book. At the time of Frank's cancer recurrence, Barbara was governor of Oregon, and Frank was an Oregon State Senator both passionately committed to their work and to one another. They also strongly supported Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, which allowed physician-assisted death. The law had not yet passed, and their was lively debate throughout Oregon whether or not to permit this law. Together they had faced many challenges, but Frank's impending death would be their final, and perhaps their most trying and enriching journey. The Robertses turned to hospice for guidance and assistance once Frank decided to stop medical intervention. This practical and compassionate guide looks at the personal as well as the societal issues surrounding death and grief. Written for both the individual facing death and for those who must grieve after a death, Roberts offers readers enthusiastic support to abandon the silence that too often accompanies impending death and those who must grieve. Chapter titles include "A Culture in Denial," "Hospice," and "Permission to be Weird.""

There Are No Dead Here

There Are No Dead Here
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Publisher : Bold Type Books
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9781568585802
ISBN-13 : 1568585802
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis There Are No Dead Here by : Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno

The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters -- a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator -- whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror. Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end with Pablo Escobar's death in 1993. Just when Colombians were ready to move past the murderous legacy of the country's cartels, a new, bloody chapter unfolded. In the late 1990s, right-wing paramilitary groups with close ties to the cocaine business carried out a violent expansion campaign, massacring, raping, and torturing thousands. There Are No Dead Here is the harrowing story of three ordinary Colombians who risked everything to reveal the collusion between the new mafia and much of the country's military and political establishment: JesúríValle, a human rights activist who was murdered for exposing a dark secret; IváVeláuez, a quiet prosecutor who took up Valle's cause and became an unlikely hero; and Ricardo Calderóa dogged journalist who is still being targeted for his revelations. Their groundbreaking investigations landed a third of the country's Congress in prison and fed new demands for justice and peace that Colombia's leaders could not ignore. Taking readers from the sweltering Medellístreets where criminal investigators were hunted by assassins, through the countryside where paramilitaries wiped out entire towns, and into the corridors of the presidential palace in BogotáThere Are No Dead Here is an unforgettable portrait of the valiant men and women who dared to stand up to the tide of greed, rage, and bloodlust that threatened to engulf their country.