Tag: Dying

Free Download In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLHHLH37 | 2024 | 4 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Sebastian Junger
Narrator: Sebastian Junger
For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet, the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. "It’s okay," his father said. "There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you." That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived.

Free Download Thomas Wilke, "Living and Dying in the Roman Republic: The Series Spartacus and its Cinematic Examination of Freedom, Violence and Iden"
English | ISBN: 3658388692 | 2023 | 152 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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Free Download Marion Woodman, "Bone: Dying into Life"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0140196285, 0670893749 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 1.4 mb
On November 7, 1993, Marion Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Here, in journal form, is the story of her illness, her healing process, and her acceptance of life and death. Breathtakingly honest about the factors she feels contributed to her cancer, Woodman also explains how she drew upon every resource-physical and spiritual-available to her to come to terms with her illness. Dreams and imagery, self-reflection and body work, and both traditional and alternative medicine play distinctive roles in Woodman’s recovery. Her personal treasury of art, photographs, and quotations-from Dickinson to Blake to Rumi-embellish this unique chronicle of a very personal journey toward transformation.

Free Download What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWHGSYGZ | 2024 | 10 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Jonathan M. Metzl
Narrator: Bob Johnson

Free Download Neal Nicol, "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Assisted Suicide Machine and the Battle to Legalise Euthanasia"
English | 2006 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1904132723, 1904132820 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Jack Kevorkian is best known for inventing the ‘suicide machine’ and being an outspoken proponent of the right to die with dignity. He has revolutionised the way the world thinks about euthanasia. Until now his story has never been properly told, but in this fully-authorised biography Kevorkian lifts his self-imposed silence through his closest associates. In addition to his work on pioneering ‘living wills’ and the assisted suicide machine, he was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his work in pathology, and a Grammy for his music. Fluent in eight languages and with a genius IQ, Kevorkian’s personal story far exceeds his battle to legalise euthanasia.

Free Download Death and Dying in the Middle Ages By Edelgard E. DuBruck, Barbara I. Gusick
1999 | 515 Pages | ISBN: 0820441279 | PDF | 22 MB
Death and Dying in the Middle Ages examines medical facts and communal arrangements, as well as religious and popular beliefs and rituals concerning the end of life in Western societies. It studies literary and artistic imaging and the underlying philosophical and theological convictions that shaped medieval attitudes toward death. A collection of eighteen articles by contributors in the Western hemisphere, this new compendium on death and its implications will interest the specialist, the student and teacher of cultural history, religion, folklore, psychology, literature, and art, and also the general public.

Free Download Joseph E. Davis, "The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well"
English | ISBN: 0268108021 | 2020 | 214 pages | EPUB | 594 KB
Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, our cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate conception of the human person, which is based on a notion of absolute individual autonomy that cannot but fail in the face of the dependency that comes with aging and decline at the end of life. To help correct the ethical impoverishment at the root of our contemporary social confusion, The Evening of Life provides an interdisciplinary examination of the challenges of aging and dying well. It calls for a re-envisioning of cultural concepts, practices, and virtues that embraces decline, dependency, and finitude rather than stigmatizes them. Bringing together the work of sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and medical practitioners, this collection of essays develops an interrelated set of conceptual tools to discuss the current challenges posed to aging and dying well, such as flourishing, temporality, narrative, and friendship. Above all, it proposes a positive understanding of thriving in old age that is rooted in our shared vulnerability as human beings. It also suggests how some of these tools and concepts can be deployed to create a medical system that better responds to our contemporary needs.

Free Download The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying, 11th Edition
by Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Albert Lee Strickland
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1259870480 | 635 Pages | True PDF | 14.4 MB

Free Download The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald
English | January 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 0571362214 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 3.43 MB
Cities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks. So goes the argument. But is it true? What would the city of the future look like if we tried to build a better life from the ground up? And would anyone want to live there?

Free Download Erin A. Dolgoy, "Political Theory on Death and Dying"
English | ISBN: 0367437414 | 2021 | 492 pages | PDF | 58 MB
Political Theory of Death and Dying provides a comprehensive, encyclopedic review that compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the political and social implications of death and dying.