Death Matters

Author : Tora Holmberg,Annika Jonsson,Fredrik Palm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030114855

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Death Matters by Tora Holmberg,Annika Jonsson,Fredrik Palm Pdf

This book investigates death as part of contemporary everyday experience and practices. Through a cultural sociological lens, it studies death as it remains constantly at the edge of our consciousness, shaping the ways in which we move through social reality. As such, Death Matters is a significant contribution to death studies, going beyond traditional parameters of the field by addressing the cultural omnipresence of death. The contributions analyse several death-related meaning-making processes, arguing that meanings emerging from culturally shared narratives, social institutions, and material conditions, are just as important as ’death practices’ in understanding the role of death in society. Drawing on the related themes of places of absence and presence, disease and bodies, and persons and non-persons, the authors explore a variety of areas of social life, from haunting to celebrity deaths, to move the notion of death from the margins of social reality to ongoing everyday life. This far-reaching collection will be of use to scholars and students across death studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, culture, media and communication studies.

Author : André Picard
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781771621557

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Matters of Life and Death by André Picard Pdf

Health issues have long occupied top headlines in Canadian media, and no journalist has written on public health with more authority or for as many years as André Picard. Matters of Life and Death collects Picard's most compelling columns, covering a broad range of topics including Canada's right-to-die law, the true risks of the Zika virus, the financial challenges of a publicly funded health system, appalling health conditions in First Nations communities, the legalization of marijuana, the social and economic impacts of mental illness, and the healthcare challenges facing transgender people. The topic of health touches on the heart of society, intersecting with many aspects of private and public life—human rights, aging, political debate, economics and death. With his reporting, Picard demonstrates the connection between physical health and the health of society as a whole, provides the facts to help readers make knowledgeable health choices, and acts as a devoted advocate for those whose circumstances bar them from receiving the care they need. Providing an antidote to widespread fear-mongering and misinformation, Matters of Life and Death is essential reading for anyone with an investment in public health topics—in other words, everyone.

Author : Georgia Simonis
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438940588

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Death Matters by Georgia Simonis Pdf

This book is inspired by true events. It is a daughter's emotionally thrilling story of her family's love for their father, his illness and eventual death. By the family's refusal to give up his body after his death they became aware of their strength and their moral and spiritual responsibility to him and his dying wishes. When death came, the on-call doctor passes his responsibility to the county coroner's office to declare the man legally dead. It causes unnecessary dangers and serious trouble for the family. When the over-zealous coroner gets involved all hell brakes loose and the family is surprised with an early Saturday morning unwarranted siege of police power to retrieve the man's body for what he calls "inspection." With the terrorizing dangers that were perpetrated by the police raid on this family, the family remained strong in their beliefs and triumphant in the end. Keeping their father's body and honoring his last wishes. The experience of caring for ones loved-one before and after death will hopefully inspire the reader with a spiritual awareness and promote the idea that spirit does live on and that there is life after death and "DEATH MATTERS" more than we sometimes know.

Author : Sally Petch
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Death
ISBN : 9781780883212

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Death Matters by Sally Petch Pdf

Death Matters is a unusual new book that encourages us to change how we think about dying. Throughout the book, author Sally Petch asks us to start talking about and planning our own death – so that we can reach a place of acceptance and lessen our fear of an event which is, ultimately inevitable. Taking a gentle, questioning format, Death Matters encourages us to pause and think about different aspects of dying. Sally poses several questions, encouraging us to note down our responses and consider our thoughts and feelings in response to specific topics. Death Matters also shares other people’s thoughts, anecdotes and experiences to help us feel more comfortable with discussing death openly.There are few books on this topic, fewer still that deal with death in this direct manner – all of which make Death Matters essential reading for everyone who wishes to embrace death positively.By overcoming our fear of death, we will release ourselves to live a fuller live. By changing our emphasis to accept death, we can journey towards dying with confidence and equilibrium.

Author : Robert Baldwin
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1603061568

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Life and Death Matters by Robert Baldwin Pdf

Dr. Robert Baldwin would be the first to tell you that he used to be an average white Southern male; a family man with conservative ideals and a growing medical practice, he was living out his life without too much introspection. In 1997, however, Baldwin was diagnosed with the auto-immune disease, myasthenia gravis. In his compelling new memoir Life and Death Matters, Baldwin discusses his health scare and his subsequent search for truth in both the Christian church and society at large. Baldwin goes on to tackle one of the most precarious moral issues of our time—the death penalty—with statistical fact and thoughtful religious sympathy. While volunteering as a prison minister, Baldwin immerses himself in this issue, proving himself to be a most thoughtful individual with an eye for social injustice and an ear for those in most need of counsel.

Author : Barbara Rose Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315425351

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Life and Death Matters by Barbara Rose Johnston Pdf

The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens important pathways for further research. Authors reassess the state of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within post-9/11 security and biosecurity frameworks, when global warming and resource scarcity are not fears but realities, when global power and politics are being realigned, and when ecocide, ethnocide, and genocide are daily tragedies. This bold new edition of Life and Death Matters will be a widely used textbook and essential reading for students, scholars, and policy makers.

Author : Barbara Rose Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 1598743392

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Life and Death Matters by Barbara Rose Johnston Pdf

This book demonstrates how the life and death struggles of people across the globe matter, to those involved, to those immediately and distantly responsible, and to us, who will experience similar difficulties, unless solutions are found.

Author : Maggi Savin-Baden,Victoria Mason-Robbie
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000026627

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Digital Afterlife by Maggi Savin-Baden,Victoria Mason-Robbie Pdf

Despite the range of studies into grief and mourning in relation to the digital, research to date largely focuses on the cultural practices and meanings that are played out in and through digital environments. Digital Afterlife brings together experts from diverse fields who share an interest in Digital Afterlife and the wide-ranging issues that relate to this. The book covers a variety of matters that have been neglected in other research texts, for example: The legal, ethical, and philosophical conundrums of Digital Afterlife The ways digital media are currently being used to expand the possibilities of commemorating the dead and managing the grief of those left behind Our lives are shaped by and shape the creation of our Digital Afterlife as the digital has become a taken for granted aspect of human experience. This book will be of interest to undergraduates from computing, theology, business studies, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and education from all types of institutions. Secondary audiences include researchers and postgraduate researchers with an interest in the digital. At a practical level, the cost of data storage and changing data storage systems mitigate the likelihood of our digital presence existing in perpetuity. Whether we create accidental or intentional digital memories, this has psychological consequences for ourselves and for society. Essentially, the foreverness of forever is in question. Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor of Higher Education Research at the University of Worcester. She has a strong publication record of over 50 research publications and 17 books. Victoria Mason-Robbie is a Chartered Psychologist and an experienced lecturer having worked in the Higher Education sector for over 15 years. Her current research focuses on evaluating web-based avatars, pedagogical agents, and virtual humans.

Author : Bronnie Ware
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401956004

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Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Pdf

Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

Author : Mary Terrall,Helen Deutsch
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442642584

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Vital Matters by Mary Terrall,Helen Deutsch Pdf

Published in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Author : David Orentlicher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0691089477

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Matters of Life and Death by David Orentlicher Pdf

Orentlicher uses controversial life-and-death issues as case studies for evaluating three models for translating principle into practice. Physician-assisted suicide illustrates the application of "generally valid rules," a model that provides predictability and simplicity and, more importantly, avoids the personal biases that influence case-by-case judgments. The author then takes up the debate over forcing pregnant women to accept treatments to save their fetuses. He uses this issue to weigh the "avoidance of perverse incentives," an approach to translation that follows principles hesitantly for fear of generating unintended results. And third, Orentlicher considers the denial of life-sustaining treatment on grounds of medical futility in his evaluation of the "tragic choices" model, which hides difficult life-and-death choices in order to prevent paralyzing social conflict.

Author : Salman Akhtar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429916120

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Matters of Life and Death by Salman Akhtar Pdf

This book focuses on the intrapsychic vicissitudes of what it means to be truly alive and how death accompanies us at each step of our life's journey. It shows that, psychologically-speaking, death is always present in life and life in death.

Author : Elizabeth A. Murray
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761338512

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Death by Elizabeth A. Murray Pdf

Examines the different ways people die, the role of the medical examiner, and what happens to the body after death.

Author : Tom Bleecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0965313204

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Unsettled Matters by Tom Bleecker Pdf

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Green Harbor, MA : Wampeter Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015004319920

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Matters of Life and Death by Tobias Wolff Pdf