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Free Download Loving the Dying (African Poetry Book) By Len Verwey
2023 | 60 Pages | ISBN: 1496234685 | PDF | 1 MB
Loving the Dying is a collection of poems on life’s different stages. Set against the backdrop of a conflicted society, Len Verwey looks at a person’s life from youth and growing up to aging and dying, considering what the ineluctable reality of death might imply about how we should think about our lives. These are poems of uncertainty rather than certainty. The more overtly biographical ones end with as many questions as they start with, and there is often sympathy for the outsider or the marginalized voice. Varying in tone and complexity, Verwey’s poems focus on the tension between escapism and reality, truth and delusion (for individuals and societies), and the need to face death if we are to care for the aged and learn to understand the process of dying. As in his first poetry collection, In a Language That You Know, Verwey continues his effort to understand the successes and failures of the South African post-apartheid journey, with both humor and some despair.

Free Download Brad Spellberg, "Broken, Bankrupt, and Dying: How to Solve the Great American Healthcare Rip-off"
English | ISBN: 1544509065 | 2020 | 324 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
As Americans, we spend trillions of dollars more on healthcare than anyone else in the world, yet we have shorter lifespans. Patients are crushed by medical debt, sometimes forced to choose between paying for medications, rent, or food. Healthcare workers are burned out from being trapped in a broken system-one that has been the greatest rip-off of the American people this century.

Free Download Janette Davies, "Living Before Dying: Imagining and Remembering Home "
English | ISBN: 1785336142 | 2017 | 172 pages | PDF | 434 KB
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia. How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the author, patients and staff, who share their stories of the pressures of the work. Living Before Dying shows a world where, in extreme old age, people have to learn how to cope with living communally.

Free Download Samuel H. LiPuma Associate Professor of Philosophy/Humanities Cuyahoga Community College, "The Dying Experience: Expanding Options for Dying and Suffering Patients"
English | ISBN: 178660857X | 2019 | 266 pages | PDF | 1489 KB
This vitally important book attempts to move beyond the current death-denying culture. The use of euphemistic and defiant phrases when dealing with terminal disease such as "She lost her battle with cancer" was more appropriate when medical doctors could do little to prolong life. But treatments and technologies have significantly changed. Now life prolonging interventions have outpaced our willingness to use medical intervention to secure patient control over death and dying. We now face a new question: When is it morally appropriate for medical intervention to hasten the dying process? LiPuma and DeMarco answer by endorsing expanded options for dying patients. Unwanted aggressive treatment regimens and protocols which reject hastening death should be replaced by a patient’s moral right, in carefully defined circumstances, to hasten death by means of medical intervention. Expanded options range from patient directed continuous sedation without hydration to physician assisted suicide for those with progressive degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s. The authors’ overriding goal is to humanize the dying process by expanding patient centered autonomous control.

Free Download A Beginner’s Guide to Dying: ‘Has anyone ever written a more inspirational paean to the joy of life?’ Daily Mail by Simon Boas
English | September 12, 2024 | ISBN: 1800755031 | 160 pages | PDF | 1.55 Mb
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Free Download Uma Chakravarti, "The Dying Lineage: The Crisis of Political Power in the Mahabharata"
English | ISBN: 9358527382 | 2024 | 262 pages | PDF | 37 MB
The Dying Lineage has at its core the crises of reproduction that underwrite Vyasa’s Mahabharata, a text that best exemplifies the transitional moment from kin-based chiefdoms to monarchical kingdoms in the Indo-Gangetic doab in the mid-first millennium bce. However, lineage building and putting orderly norms of succession into place was a fraught process. The Bharata patriline stared at its imminent extinction at least once every generation, barely perpetuating itself, and always faced with anxiety over its future. This feminist reading ‘peoples’ this story by bringing into its frame those who are on the margins of the royal household but cannot claim kingship. Reading against the grain, the book explores the link between caste, class and gender in a varna-ordered society. It examines how all three colluded with the patriarchs (and the occasional matriarch) to ensure the survival of the lineage. The fallout was the denial of women’s sexual autonomy and the reifying of their wombs to create a field for the seeds of the Bharata men or their proxies. Consequently, an already imperilled and blighted Kuru lineage is torn asunder by fratricidal contradictions, leading to death and destruction, and the end of an era.

Free Download Is Accounting Dying? : Accounting in the AI Era by Ethan Blake
English | August 19, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DDRDCM3V | 81 pages | EPUB | 0.13 Mb
"Is Accounting Dying? Accounting in the AI Era" is your essential guide to navigating the rapidly evolving world of accounting. As artificial intelligence reshapes the industry, aspiring accountants face both unprecedented challenges and exciting opportunities. This book cuts through the noise, offering a clear-eyed analysis of where the profession is headed and how you can position yourself for success.

Free Download Living and Dying in Mesopotamia by Alhena Gadotti, Alexandra Kleinerman
English | November 14, 2024 | ISBN: 1350301876 | True EPUB/PDF | 310 pages | 4.8/9.4 MB
Exploring life, death, and the afterlife in Mesopotamia, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman examine how life and death experiences continually developed over the course of nearly three millennia of Mesopotamian history.

Free Download Ailsa Piper, "For Life: A memoir of living and dying – and flying"
English | ASIN : B0CY4T35V4 | 2024 | pages | EPUB | 852 KB
An unforgettable and moving insight into loss, hope and starting again, aided by the incredible healing power of nature and a community of unexpected angels-for fans of Phosphoresence by Julia Baird.

Free Download On Living and Dying Well (Penguin Classics) (Audiobook)
English | February 25, 2021 | ASIN: B08VW6VC9H | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 20m | 400 MB
Author: Cicero | Narrator: John Hastings | Translator: Thomas Habinek
This Penguin Classic is performed by John Hastings. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Thomas Habinek read by John Hastings.
In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero’s philosophies were frequently personal and ethical, drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation of the world. The resulting works remind us of the importance of social ties, the questions of free will and the justification of any creative endeavour.