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Death Books

The New Natural Death Handbook

Nicholas Albery Gil Elliot Joseph Elliot

Publisher:

Rider

ISBN:

0712671110

The ultimate reference work on natural death & funerals.


How We Die

Sherwin B. Nuland

Publisher:

Vintage

ISBN:

009947641X

Intimate Death

Marie de Hennezel Carol Brown Janeway

Publisher:

Warner

ISBN:

0751523321

On Death and Dying

E. Kubler-Ross

Publisher:

Routledge

ISBN:

0415040159

After a Death: Practical Problems and Sensible Solutions

Shelagh Clayton

Publisher:

Robson Books Ltd

ISBN:

0860519562

The book is a guide on how to organize a funeral, a grant of probate, the disposal of property, dealing with friends and relations. Also enabling particular attention to be paid to the practical and financial aspects of handling an estate.


Celtic Legends of the Beyond

Derek Bryce

Publisher:

Samuel Weiser

ISBN:

157863122X

A collection of unusual tales of death, dying and the Celtic cult of the dead, this text includes first hand reports of psychic phenomena as well as narratives passed from generation to generation and spread throughout Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and the Isle of Man.


Dying Well

Richard Reoch Yehudi Menuhin

Publisher:

Gaia Books

ISBN:

1856750191

A handbook for people confronted with terminal illness or life-threatening conditions, people caring for dying people or looking for new ways to support friends who are dying, and people who are seeking advice on how they can prepare themselves, their families and friends for encounters with death.


A Good Death

Julia Neuberger

Publisher:

Midwives Press

ISBN:

1898507260

This text looks at the various ways in which different professions, cultures, religions and people of opposing philosophical standpoints view death. It covers the hospice movement, euthanasia, living wills, advance directives and considers the pros and cons of medical intervention to extend life.


The Good Death Guide

Michael Dunn

Publisher:

Pathways

ISBN:

1857035593

Death is a practical fact of all our lives and this handbook aims to equip anyone to be less fearful, more dispassionate and better prepared for death and bereavement. This family reference aims to remove much of the mystique surrounding the subject of death and bereavement. It offers information about the facts, processes and the emotional implication of death and includes practical help on making a will, living wills, organ and body donation and funeral planning. It explores the consequences for others of different sorts of death such as the death of a parent or a child, miscarriage, suicide, HIV/Aids and discusses death in a variety of cultures and traditions. It also includes lists of addresses and direction for further information.



Funerals

Funeral Customs: Their Origin and Development

Bertram S. Puckle

Publisher:

Omnigraphics

ISBN:

1558887504

Dancing on the Grave

Nigel Barley

Publisher:

Abacus (Little, Brown)

ISBN:

0349107769

Seeking to merge the information of theologians and anthropologists, this book looks at the variety of ways in which cultures around the world deal with death and give it meaning.


The Dead Good Funerals Book

Sue Gill John Fox

Publisher:

Engineers of the Imagination

ISBN:

0952715902


Breavement

Living with Grief

Tony Lake

Publisher:

Sheldon

ISBN:

0859694267

Light and accessible - an easy read.


Grief Counselling and Grief Therapy

J.William Worden

Publisher:

ISBN:

0415071798

You'll get over it

Virginia Ironside

Publisher:

Penguin

ISBN:

0140236082

I don't know what to say

Robert Buckman

Publisher:

PaperMac

ISBN:

0333469836

Helping Children cope with Grief

Rosemary Wells

Publisher:

Sheldon Press

ISBN:

085969559X

The Bird of my loving

Mary Sheepshanks

Publisher:

Penguin

ISBN:

0140275207

Debrett's Guide to Bereavement

Charles Mosley

Publisher:

Headline

ISBN:

0747244251

A handbook on coping with bereavement, which focuses on the practical issues which arise, such as death duties, funerals, obituaries, probate, undertakers and wills.