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Author: Fran Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1936740605
Size: 34.30 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2013-10-28
Category: Health & Fitness
Language: en
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Download PDF Changing The Way We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care—nearly 44 percent of all deaths—and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take a broad, penetrating look at the hospice landscape, through gripping stories of real patients, families, and doctors, as well as the corporate giants that increasingly own the market. Changing the Way We Die is a vital resource for anyone who wants to be prepared to face life’s most challenging and universal event. You will learn: — Hospice use is soaring, yet most people come too late to get the full benefits. — With the age tsunami, it becomes even more critical for families and patients to choose end-of-life care wisely. — Hospice at its best is much more than a way to relieve the suffering of dying. It is a way to live.

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Book Detail:
Author: Fran Smith
Publisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 9781410468031
Size: 38.80 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014-05-09
Category: Compassion
Language: en
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Download PDF Changing The Way We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Reprint of: Street Berkeley, California: Viva Editions, 2013.

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Author: Benjamin Rabbi Blech
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538116650
Size: 62.98 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2018-09-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Hope Not Fear eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Hope, Not Fear shares the wisdom we all need to come to terms with death. .

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Author: Seamus O'Mahony
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125011280X
Size: 13.52 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2017-07-25
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Way We Die Now eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors, and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are unlikely to see even their family doctor in their final hours, robbed of their dignity and fed through a tube after a long series of excessive and hopeless medical interventions. This is the starting point of Seamus O’Mahony’s The Way We Die Now, a thoughtful, moving and unforgettable book on the western way of death. Dying has never been more public, with celebrities writing detailed memoirs of their illness, but in private we have done our best to banish all thought of dying and made a good death increasingly difficult to achieve.

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Book Detail:
Author: Steve Gordon
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1633881121
Size: 79.30 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2015
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF Let S Talk About Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Experts in end-of-life care tell us that we should talk about death and dying with relatives and friends, but how do we get such conversations off the ground in a society that historically has avoided the topic? This book provides one example of such a conversation. The coauthors take up challenging questions about pain, caregiving, grief, and what comes after death. Their unlikely collaboration is itself connected to death: the murders of two of Irene's closest friends and Steve's support in perpetuating memories of those friends' lives and not just their violent ends. The authors share the results of a no-holds-barred discussion they conducted for several years over email. Readers can consider a range of views on complicated issues to which there are no right answers. Letting ourselves pose certain questions has the potential to profoundly change the way we think about death, how we choose to die, and, just as importantly, the way we live. Honest, probing, sensitive, and even humorous at times, the completely open discussions in this book will help readers deal with a topic that most of us try to avoid but that everyone will face eventually.

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Book Detail:
Author: Haider Warraich
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250104580
Size: 74.36 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-02-07
Category: Medical
Language: en
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Download PDF Modern Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A contemporary exploration of death and dying by a young Duke Fellow who investigates the hows, whys, wheres, and whens of modern death and their cultural significance.

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Author: Sam Parnia, M.D.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 9781401933548
Size: 69.61 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2007-01-01
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF What Happens When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Dr. Sam Parnia faces death every day. Through his work as a critical-care doctor in a hospital emergency room, he became very interested in some of his patients’ accounts of the experiences that they had while clinically dead. He started to collect these stories and read all the latest research on the subject, and then he conducted his own experiments. That work has culminated in this extraordinary book, which picks up where Raymond Moody’s Life After Life left off. Written in a scientific, balanced, and engaging style, this is powerful and compelling reading. This fascinating and controversial book will change the way you look at death and dying.

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Book Detail:
Author: Karla Erickson
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781439908242
Size: 10.33 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013-09-27
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF How We Die Now eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. As we live longer and die slower and differently than our ancestors, we have come to rely more and more on end-of-life caregivers. These workers navigate a changing landscape of old age and death that many of us have little preparation to encounter. How We Die Now is an absorbing and sensitive investigation of end-of-life issues from the perspectives of patients, relatives, medical professionals, and support staff. Karla Erickson immersed herself in the daily life of workers and elders in a Midwestern community for over two years to explore important questions around the theme of “how we die now.” She moves readers through and beyond the many fears that attend the social condition of old age and reveals the pleasures of living longer and the costs of slower, sometimes senseless ways of dying. For all of us who are grappling with the “elder boom,” How We Die Now offers new ways of thinking about our longer lives.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sandra Champlain
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1614483825
Size: 78.29 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2013-05-01
Category: Self-Help
Language: en
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Download PDF We Don T Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “We Don’t Die: A Skeptic’s Discovery of Life After Death” gives credible evidence of life after death. The goal of “We Don’t Die” is to have people believe that their deceased loved ones are still near them, help them navigate through the grieving process and educate that we are ‘eternal souls having a human experience. It is unique because it teaches people about the grieving process, keeping relationships whole, gives awe inspiring exercises that the reader experiences that we must be ‘more than our bodies.’ It gets readers in touch with the purpose of their lives and gets them on the path to producing results. Readers will no longer fear death, their pain of losing someone will be lessened, they will have hope, faith, and powerful access to live a successful life.

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Book Detail:
Author: R. Ryan Questel
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc
ISBN: 1483423557
Size: 41.86 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-01-07
Category: Self-Help
Language: en
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Download PDF Recreating Reality Change The Way You Look At The World And The World Changes eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A journey revealing the world we believe to know, that we depend on and have come to accept as we perceive it. By dissecting the paradigms of the social order, separating myth from fact and exploring other options that go against the status quo we can begin creating new choices for ones own liberation physically, mentally and even financially that has been hidden from mankind. Exposing the secrets so we may break the cycle of systematic conditioning committed against society, an agenda which is inevitably moving toward a specific world order if the population remains unaware. To hopefully achieve a life of absolute freedom and endless possibilities. One free from the parameters of commercialism, consumerism, unjust laws, media propaganda, money, corporate influence and government by revealing these hidden systems of control.

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Book Detail:
Author: Shai J. Lavi
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400826772
Size: 38.68 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2009-01-10
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Modern Art Of Dying eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. Lavi begins with the historical meaning of euthanasia as signifying an "easeful death." Over time, he shows, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death. Lavi illustrates these changes with compelling accounts of changes at the deathbed. He takes us from early nineteenth-century deathbeds governed by religion through the medicalization of death with the physician presiding over the deathbed, to the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. Unlike previous books, which have focused on law and technique as explanations for the rise of euthanasia, this book asks why law and technique have come to play such a central role in the way we die. What is at stake in the modern way of dying is not human progress, but rather a fundamental change in the way we experience life in the face of death, Lavi argues. In attempting to gain control over death, he maintains, we may unintentionally have ceded control to policy makers and bio-scientific enterprises.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sherwin B Nuland
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 9780679742449
Size: 22.24 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1995-01-15
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF How We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity. "It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James Gleick

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert Arp
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1667201743
Size: 12.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2022-06-07
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF 1001 Ideas That Changed The Way We Think eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Trace the progress of humanity—from prehistoric times to the present day—through 1,001 ideas that changed how we connect to each other and the world around us. From the ability to control fire to augmented reality, the power of humanity’s ideas has revolutionized how we live and experience the world around us. 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think looks at the innovations and concepts that have played a key role in our progress since before recorded history. Covering a wide range of topics—from political and religious ideas to modern innovations such as social media and clean energy—this captivating volume offers a comprehensive look at how human ideas have evolved over the millennia.

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Book Detail:
Author: Virginia Morris
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565124370
Size: 17.17 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2004-01-01
Category: Self-Help
Language: en
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Download PDF Talking About Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Morris helps turn fears into constructive, practical action by teaching readers how to be better prepared, make better decisions, and be more in control of the options that will surround their own death and the death of loved ones.

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Book Detail:
Author: Bronnie Ware
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401956017
Size: 36.24 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2019-08-13
Category: Self-Help
Language: en
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Download PDF Top Five Regrets Of The Dying eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alan R. Kemp
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317348974
Size: 19.22 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2015-10-16
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Death Dying And Bereavement In A Changing World eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This title takes a comprehensive approach, exploring the physical, social, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of death, dying, and bereavement.Through personal stories from real people, Death, Dying, and Bereavement provides readers with a context for understanding their changing encounters with such difficult concepts.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sheldon Malone
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512723738
Size: 52.60 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2015-12-30
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Changing The Way You Think eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. It was during an isolated tour of military duty that the author Sheldon Malone was led to compile these devotionals written over the years into a one-year devotional book designed to encourage readers to look at God’s Word from a whole new perspective by changing the way they thought. It was not until he changed his thinking that he truly began to see the transforming power of God manifested in his life in tangible ways. This is precisely why we have to allow God to expand our territory and horizon by permitting Him to change the way we think through His Word. As you read each devotional, this author’s prayer is that you will find strength and encouragement to allow God to propel you into higher heights and deeper depths in the things of the Kingdom. The Word of God may just give you a different perspective as it encourages you to change your thinking in order to achieve a new mindset.

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Book Detail:
Author: Charles Willeford
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307492974
Size: 57.38 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2009-09-09
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Way We Die Now eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. When Miami Homicide Detective Hoke Moseley receives an unexplained order to let his beard grow, he doesn't think much about it. He has too much going on at home, especially with a man he helped convict ten years before moving in across the street. Hoke immediately assumes the worst, and considering he has his former partner, who happens to be nursing a newborn, and his two teenage daughters living with him, he doesn't like the situation on bit. It doesn't help matters when he is suddenly assigned to work undercover, miles away, outside of his jurisdiction and without his badge, his gun, or his teeth. Soon, he is impersonating a drifter and tring to infiltrate a farm operation suspected of murdering migrant workers. But when he gets there for his job interview, the last thing he is offered is work. In this final installment of the highly acclaimed Hoke Moseley novels, Charles Willeford's brilliance and expertise show on every page. Equally funny, thrilling, and disturbing, The Way We Die Now is a triumphant finish to one of the most original detective series of all time.

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas McNamee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451698445
Size: 40.33 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2013-03-12
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF The Man Who Changed The Way We Eat eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Originally published in hardcover in 2012.

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Book Detail:
Author: Michael Mack
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441137637
Size: 77.53 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2011-12-01
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF How Literature Changes The Way We Think eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The capacity of the arts and the humanities, and of literature in particular, to have a meaningful societal impact has been increasingly undervalued in recent history. Both humanists and scientists have tended to think of the arts as a means to represent the world via imagination. Mack maintains that the arts do not merely describe our world but that they also have the unique and underappreciated power to make us aware of how we can change accustomed forms of perception and action. Mack explores the works of prominent writers and thinkers, including Nietzsche, Foucault, Benjamin, Wilde, Roth, and Zizek, among others, to illustrate how literature interacts with both people and political as well as scientific issues of the real world. By virtue of its distance from the real world-its virtuality-the aesthetic has the capability to help us explore different and so far unthinkable forms of action and thereby to resist the repetition and perpetuation of harmful practices such as stereotyping, stigma, exclusion, and the exertion of violence.

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