A Different Death

Author : Nicky Huys
Publisher : Nicky Huys
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Different Death Rituals by Nicky Huys Pdf

"Different Death Rituals" is an enlightening exploration of the diverse ways in which cultures around the world approach death and honor the departed. From ancient civilizations to modern societies, this book delves into the rich tapestry of funeral customs, mourning practices, and commemorative ceremonies across various cultural, religious, and indigenous traditions. Discover the unique rituals, beliefs, and symbolism that shape these diverse death practices, offering profound insights into the human experience of loss, remembrance, and the eternal bond with the departed. Gain a deeper understanding of the power of cultural heritage, spirituality, and community in navigating the universal journey of death.

Author : Pittu Laungani,William Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134789771

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Death and Bereavement Across Cultures by Pittu Laungani,William Young Pdf

All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and though science has had a major impact on views of death, it has taught us little about the way to die or to grieve. Many who come into contact with the dying and the bereaved from other cultures are at a loss to know how to offer appropriate and sensitive support. Death and Bereavement Across Cultures, provides a handbook with which to meet the needs of doctors, nurses, social workers, counsellors and others involved in the care of the dying and bereaved. Written by international authorities in the field, this important text: * describes the rituals and beliefs of major world religions * explains their psychological and historical context * shows how customs change on contact with the West * considers the implications for the future This book explores the richness of mourning traditions around the world with the aim of increasing the understanding which we all bring to the issue of death.

Author : Hugo Adam Bedau
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : 1555530087

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Death is Different by Hugo Adam Bedau Pdf

Author : Judith Karen Fenley,Oberon Zell
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738755397

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Death Rights and Rites by Judith Karen Fenley,Oberon Zell Pdf

Reclaim the Right to a Sacred, Sustainable Death Exploring the spiritual and legal aspects of alternative death-ways, home funerals, and green burial Death Rights and Rites presents practical information and questions for approaching death and dying with a sense of sacred meaning. You will discover ideas for navigating the spiritual and legal issues related to home-based dying, home funerals, and alternative burial methods. Reverend Judith Karen Fenley offers insights into approaching relevant legal frameworks with respect while assisting your loved one in ways that support the best medical care, the natural environment, and the emotional needs of the community. Explore ideas for memorial services and ways to be open to spontaneous rituals for letting go, preparing for death, being at peace, and more. It is possible to manifest your deepest values before, during, and after death. Death Rights and Rites shares examples and provides support as you explore final transitions that are environmentally conscious and spiritually meaningful. Includes a foreword by Jerrigrace Lyons, founder of Final Passages: The Institute of Conscious Dying, Home Funeral & Green Burial Education and an epilogue by Oberon Zell, cofounder of the Church of All Worlds

Author : K. Krombie
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467149655

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Death in New York: History and Culture of Burials, Undertakers & Executions by K. Krombie Pdf

Like every aspect of life in the Big Apple, how New Yorkers have interacted with death is as diverse as each of the countless individuals who have called the city home. Waves of immigration brought unique burial customs as archaeological excavations uncovered the graves of indigenous Lenape and enslaved Africans. Events such as the 1788 Doctors' Riot--a response to years of body snatching by medical students and physicians--contributed to new laws protecting the deceased. Overcrowding and epidemics led to the construction of the "Cemetery Belt," a wide stretch of multi-faith burial grounds throughout Brooklyn and Queens. From experiments in embalming to capital punishment and the far-reaching industry of handling the dead, author K. Krombie unveils a tapestry of stories centered on death in New York.

Author : Helaine Selin,Robert M. Rakoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030188269

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Death Across Cultures by Helaine Selin,Robert M. Rakoff Pdf

Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and North America. These chapters address changes in death rituals and beliefs, medicalization and the industry of death, and the different ways cultures mediate the impacts of modernity. Comparative studies with the west and among countries are included. This book brings together global research conducted by anthropologists, social scientists and scholars who work closely with individuals from the cultures they are writing about.

Author : Michael K. Bartalos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313364273

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Speaking of Death by Michael K. Bartalos Pdf

In the post-9/11 moments, months, and years, America has come to develop a new mortality awareness. Death, and our understanding that it can be sudden and is certainly inevitable, is being talked about more than ever before. As the team in this volume shows through groundbreaking research, surveys, interviews, and vignettes, death awareness has grown strong, and has changed the way we think and act, not only in relation to ourselves and our loved ones, but in relation to society overall. Those changes include nuances from increases in the number and size of college courses focused on death, rapid growth of death books, death photography, television shows dealing with death, as well as the recording and dissemination of death videos from those that show family members dying peacefully to the execution of terrorists or their captives. Impromptu street creations to memorialize common people who have died have emerged, as have new ways to dispose of dead bodies, including blasting ashes into space or placing them under the sea or giving them a green resting place in a natural forest. Our means of grieving, coping, and beliefs about afterlife have been altered, too. This work also includes a look at cosmologists and physicists who have revised their theories on humanity's legacy when our world meets a fateful end, who propose a means by which mankind's achievements might survive indefinitely, transporting from one universe to another without violating the known laws of physics. This book will intrigue all with an interest in considering not only death and how 9/11 changed America's views on and beliefs about it, but also considering what could lie beyond that end for all of us.

Author : Brandy Schillace
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1681773244

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Death's Summer Coat by Brandy Schillace Pdf

Death is something we all confront—it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances.We are living at a unique point in human history. People are living longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. Yet we, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire history. What led us to this point? What drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar?Schillace shows how talking about death, and the rituals associated with it, can help provide answers. It also brings us closer together—conversation and community are just as important for living as for dying. Some of the stories are strikingly unfamiliar; others are far more familiar than you might suppose. But all reveal much about the present—and about ourselves.

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393249903

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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Pdf

A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.

Author : Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405137508

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Death, Mourning, and Burial by Antonius C. G. M. Robben Pdf

In Death, Mourning, and Burial, an indispensable introduction to the anthropology of death, readers will find a rich selection of some of the finest ethnographic work on this fascinating topic. Comprised of six sections that mirror the social trajectory of death: conceptualizations of death; death and dying; uncommon death; grief and mourning; mortuary rituals; and remembrance and regeneration Includes canonical readings as well as recent studies on topics such as organ donation and cannibalism Designed for anyone concerned with issues of death and dying, as well as: violence, terrorism, war, state terror, organ theft, and mortuary rituals Serves as a text for anthropology classes, as well as providing a genuinely cross-cultural perspective to all those studying death and dying

Author : SUSAN. LOWEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096517749

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NURSING CARE AT THE END OF LIFE by SUSAN. LOWEY Pdf

Author : Christopher Jay Johnson,Marsha G. McGee
Publisher : Charles Press Pubs(PA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0914783858

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How Different Religions View Death & Afterlife by Christopher Jay Johnson,Marsha G. McGee Pdf

This new second edition presents a clear, concise and comparative overview of the teachings and the death beliefs of the largest and fastest-growing religions in North America. Unlike many books on the subject of religious beliefs, the discourse here is refreshingly objective and nonproselytizing. Furthermore, each chapter is written by a different expert or scholar who is internationally recognized as an authority on a particular faith. - Back cover.

Author : Jennifer Lorna Hockey,Jeanne Katz,Neil Small
Publisher : Facing Death
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UGA:32108032562988

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Grief, Mourning, and Death Ritual by Jennifer Lorna Hockey,Jeanne Katz,Neil Small Pdf

It does this by combining substantial reviews with shorter illustrative examples of grief, mourning and death ritual as they are manifest in specific settings and with defined groups. These illustrative examples include personal and institutional responses to death at different points in the life cycle, and responses to different sorts of death - the death of children and death in disasters for example.

Author : Margo de Mello
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628952711

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Mourning Animals by Margo de Mello Pdf

We live more intimately with nonhuman animals than ever before in history. The change in the way we cohabitate with animals can be seen in the way we treat them when they die. There is an almost infinite variety of ways to help us cope with the loss of our nonhuman friends—from burial, cremation, and taxidermy; to wearing or displaying the remains (ashes, fur, or other parts) of our deceased animals in jewelry, tattoos, or other artwork; to counselors who specialize in helping people mourn pets; to classes for veterinarians; to tips to help the surviving animals who are grieving their animal friends; to pet psychics and memorial websites. But the reality is that these practices, and related beliefs about animal souls or animal afterlife, generally only extend, with very few exceptions, to certain kinds of animals—pets. Most animals, in most cultures, are not mourned, and the question of an animal afterlife is not contemplated at all. Mourning Animals investigates how we mourn animal deaths, which animals are grievable, and what the implications are for all animals.

Author : Tony Walter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134814633

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The Revival of Death by Tony Walter Pdf

Talking about death is now fashionable, but how should we talk? Who should we listen to - priests, doctors, cousellors, or ourselves? Has psychology replaced religion in telling us how to die? This provocative book takes a sociological look at the revival of interest in death, focusing on the hospice movement and bereavement counselling. It will be required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of death and caring for the dying, the dead or bereaved.