Death, Dying, Transcending

Death, Dying, Transcending
Author: Richard Kalish
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351852094

Every living thing must die, but only human beings know it. This knowledge can bring to the living, anxiety and despair or new richness and meaning. This volume explores the problems and possibilities of coping with this universal experience.

Grieving Beyond Gender

Grieving Beyond Gender
Author: Kenneth J. Doka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1135844291

Grieving Beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Women Mourn is a revision of Men Don’t Cry, Women Do: Transcending Gender Stereotypes of Grief. In this work, Doka and Martin elaborate on their conceptual model of "styles or patterns of grieving" – a model that has generated both research and acceptance since the publication of the first edition in 1999. In that book, as well as in this revision, Doka and Martin explore the different ways that individuals grieve, noting that gender is only one factor that affects an individual’s style or pattern of grief. The book differentiates intuitive grievers, where the pattern is more affective, from instrumental grievers, who grieve in a more cognitive and behavioral way, while noting other patterns that might be more blended or dissonant. The model is firmly grounded in social science theory and research. A particular strength of the work is the emphasis placed on the clinical implications of the model on the ways that different types of grievers might best be supported through individual counseling or group support.

Religion without Transcendence?

Religion without Transcendence?
Author: T. Tessin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1349259152

What can transcendence mean for us? We live in a world in which there are many conceptions of transcendence. Some philosophers say that they all point, in their way, to a transcendent realm, without which death and life's sorrows have the last word, while their opponents argue that since this realm is an illusion, we must use our own resources to meet life's trials. Others argue that moral and religious concepts of transcendence are obscured by philosophical notions of transcendence, and must be rescued from them. These conflicting views on a central issue in our culture are brought into sharp relief in the present collection.

Easy Death

Easy Death
Author: Adi Da Samraj
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2005
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781570972027

"New talks and essays from the Avatar Adi Da on death and ultimate transcendence; accounts of profound events of yogic death in Avatar Adi Da's own life; stories of his blessing in the death transitions of his devotees" -- Cover.

Dying to Be Me

Dying to Be Me
Author: Anita Moorjani
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1401937527

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "I had the choice to come back ... or not. I chose to return when I realized that 'heaven' is a state, not a place" In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down—overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized her inherent worth . . . and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was released from the hospital within weeks—without a trace of cancer in her body! Within this enhanced e-book, Anita recounts—in words and on video—stories of her childhood in Hong Kong, her challenge to establish her career and find true love, as well as how she eventually ended up in that hospital bed where she defied all medical knowledge. In "Dying to Be Me," Anita Freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, "being love," and the true magnificence of each and every human being!

Death Attitudes and the Older Adult

Death Attitudes and the Older Adult
Author: Adrian Tomer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317714644

This innovative and informative new text bridges the fields of gerontology and thanatology.

Living Your Dying

Living Your Dying
Author: Stanley Keleman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1975
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780394487878

"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.

The Final Choice

The Final Choice
Author: Michael Grosso
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781786770295

The meaning of death changes from culture to culture, and is evolving as we speak. The modern near-death experience transforms the meaning of death into something quite different from the mainline view of death as the extinction of consciousness.

A Social History of Dying

A Social History of Dying
Author: Allan Kellehear
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2007-02-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139461427

Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehear takes the reader on a 2 million year journey of discovery that covers the major challenges we will all eventually face: anticipating, preparing, taming and timing for our eventual deaths. This book, first published in 2007, is a major review of the human and clinical sciences literature about human dying conduct. The historical approach of this book places our recent images of cancer dying and medical care in broader historical, epidemiological and global context. Professor Kellehear argues that we are witnessing a rise in shameful forms of dying. It is not cancer, heart disease or medical science that presents modern dying conduct with its greatest moral tests, but rather poverty, ageing and social exclusion.

Handbook of Death and Dying

Handbook of Death and Dying
Author: Clifton D. Bryant
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 1146
Release: 2003
Genre: Death
ISBN: 0761925147

Review: "More than 100 scholars contributed to this carefully researched, well-organized, informative, and multi-disciplinary source on death studies. Volume 1, "The Presence of Death," examines the cultural, historical, and societal frameworks of death, such as the universal fear of death, spirituality and varioius religions, the legal definition of death, suicide, and capital punishment. Volume 2, "The Response to Death," covers such topics as rites and ceremonies, grief and bereavement, and legal matters after death."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.