Sometimes, it seems like death is all around us. It's in the news and in entertainment media. However frequently we hear about or see death, it's still shocking when death touches our personal lives. This book helps readers explore some of the feelings and realities that surround death. It answers questions about what happens when someone dies and offers suggestions for dealing with all the feelings associated with loss. Simple text, lists of resources for finding help, and interesting photographs make this tough topic accessible to a younger audience.
Whether a believer or not, a devotee or an agnostic, an accomplished seeker or a simpleton, this is truly a book for all those who shall die!
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But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality.
The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist,...
No one who reads this book will ever again think of his or her own death in the same way.
22. since the work of S. L. A. Marshall on nonfirers in World War II. See Grossman's response to these debates on p. 333. See also S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War (New York: Morrow, ...
Lieutenant Eve Dallas tails a serial killer who has a passion for the "Twelve Days of Christmas" in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey.
Collects three of J.D. Robb's "In death" novels as Lieutenant Eve Dallas searches for a killer promising immortality, a ritualistic murderer, and a woman missing from aboard a New York City ferry.