This book unravels the many different experiences, meanings and realities of natural burial. Twenty years after the first natural burial ground opened there is an opportunity to reflect on how a concept for a very different approach to caring for our dead has become a reality: n…
Review: "In this book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death." "Death threatens our sense of the importance of goodness. The threat can be met if there is, as Socrates said…
Kritisk gennemgang af argumenter og teorier for og imod liv efter døden
A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality. The author sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality along with utopian attempts to create he…
Selvbiografi af den schweiziske psykiater og dødsforsker Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (f. 1926).
In analyses of digital death footage from victims of police brutality to those who jump from the Golden Gate Bridge Jennifer Malkowski considers the immense changes digital technologies have introduced in the ability to record and display actual deaths one of documentary's most …
17-årige Violet og Finch går på samme skole. Violet er populær, men bærer på en stor sorg. Finch er skolens freak og har svært ved at indordne sig. En dag mødes de i skolens klokketårn, hvor Violet vil begå selvmord ved at springe ud. Det bliver starten på et usandsynligt forhold
On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. Kalanithi chronicles his transformation from a naïve medical student into a neurosurg…
Seth er i ferd med å drukne. Han er desperat og alene i sin siste stund. Men så våkner han. Han er naken, tørst og sulten. Men han er i live. Hvordan er dette mulig? Han husker at han døde. Han husker hvordan beina brakk og hvordan hodet traff steinene. Så hvordan havnet han her…
If ever there was an area requiring that the research-practice gap be bridged, surely it occurs where thanatologists engage withpeople dealing with human mortality and loss. The field of thanatology' the study of deathand dying' is a complex, multidisciplinary area that encompas…
Under krigen i den Persiske Golf, hvor Irak har invaderet Kuwait, lider en ung mand af tabet af sin mor
Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently contained within) certain sites and regulated spaces, such as the hospital, the cemetery and the mortu…
