Being Dead Otherwise

Being Dead Otherwise
Author: Anne Allison
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2023-02-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478024410

With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many dead are no longer buried in traditional ancestral graves where descendants would tend their spirits, and individuals are increasingly taking on mortuary preparation for themselves. In Being Dead Otherwise Anne Allison examines the emergence of new death practices in Japan as the old customs of mortuary care are coming undone. She outlines the proliferation of new industries, services, initiatives, and businesses that offer alternative means---ranging from automated graves, collective grave sites, and crematoria to one-stop mortuary complexes and robotic priests---for tending to the dead. These new burial and ritual practices provide alternatives to long-standing traditions of burial and commemoration of the dead. In charting this shifting ecology of death, Allison outlines the potential of these solutions to radically reorient sociality in Japan in ways that will impact how we think about the end of life, identity, tradition, and culture in Japan and beyond.

Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation

Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation
Author: Franklin G. Miller
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 019973917X

This book challenges conventional medical ethics by exposing the inconsistency between the reality of end-of-life practices and established ethical justifications of them.

By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Author: Julie Anne Peters
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-01-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1423139399

A significant book about one girl's struggle with suicide, from National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters. Daelyn is fifteen years old, and in her mind she is a failure. She tried slitting her wrists, and she was rescued. She tried swallowing chemicals, and after burning through her esophagus enough to lose the ability to speak, she was rescued. But this time will be different. As readers see Daelyn's touching friendship with a quirky seventeen-year-old boy develop and her newfound willingness to share all of the pain she has held inside of her, they may just see a glimmer of hope. Will Daelyn see it though? Raw and heartfelt, this is an inside look into the mind of a teen who has lost the will to fight and the parents that will do anything they can to help her survive. Still, there are some things that even loving parents can't protect you from—yourself. Please note that due to the sensitive nature of the material in this book, we will be providing back matter from key experts. We hope that this book will help to open a dialogue about this increasingly prevalent issue.

Heritage from Below

Heritage from Below
Author: Iain J.M. Robertson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1317122445

Research into the ways in which the past is constructed and consumed in the present is now reaching a mature stage. This maturity derives from the general acceptance that heritage as a social and cultural construct is closely connected to the making and maintaining of identity at all spatial scales. This unique book contributes to the developing discourse by focusing on 'heritage from below' in a field where the literature on the relationship between heritage and identity has, rightly, been focused on national identity. Never before have the contemporary manifestations and the theoretical structuring framework of the idea of heritage from below been discussed in the depth offered by this book. The authors first establish the concept and then engage with the actual practice and practitioners of heritage from below in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America.

Somewhere Towards the End

Somewhere Towards the End
Author: Diana Athill
Publisher: Yayasan Obor Indonesia
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393067705

An esteemed memoirist and one of the great editors in British publishing examines aging with the grace of Elegy for Iris and the wry irreverence of I Feel Bad About My Neck.

Haunted

Haunted
Author: Kay Hooper
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0515153745

How do you make peace with the dead if the dead aren’t ready to forgive? The answer lies in this Bishop/Special Crimes Unit novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Hold Back the Dark. Trinity Nichols left a high-stress job for a quiet, small-town life in Sociable, Georgia. But a string of missing women in the area has left the town on edge. And then, a man is found dead right in town. There is nothing remotely ordinary about how he died, or about the prime suspect—a terrified young woman. Soon, Trinity’s investigation will yield much more than she bargained for. A group of strangers has descended on Sociable, some with abilities Trinity finds hard to believe, and agendas she refuses to trust. For some reason, they know a lot more than they should about the strange events in town. And what’s happening in Sociable is growing stranger by the minute.

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Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 658
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ISBN: 0357798767

Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science

Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
Author: V. Arvind
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2004-01-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540493824

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS'98, held in Chennai, India, in December 1998. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 93 submissions; also included are six invited contributions. The papers deal with theoretical topics ranging from discrete mathematics and algorithmic aspects to software engineering, program semantics and mathematical logic.