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American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning


Sweeney, Kate, 1978- author.
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014] 2014

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The American Resting Place : Four Hundred Years of History through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds


Yalom, Marilyn, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media, [2008] 2008

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The American way of death revisited


Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. 1998

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The art of death : writing the final story


Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- author.
[Minneapolis, Minnesota] : Graywolf Press, [2017] 2017

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Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end


Gawande, Atul.
New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014. 2014

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Cemeteries and gravemarkers : voices of American culture



Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1992. 1992

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Chasing my cure : a doctor's race to turn hope into action : a memoir


Fajgenbaum, David C., author.
New York : Ballantine Books, [2019] 2019

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Confessions of a funeral director : how the business of death saved my life


Wilde, Caleb, author.
[New York] : HarperCollins, [2017] 2017

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Confessions of a Funeral Director : How the Business of Death Saved My Life


Wilde, Caleb, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins, [2017] 2017

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Dark archives : a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human ski


Rosenbloom, Megan, 1981- author.
[Prince Frederick, Maryland] : Recorded Books, Inc., [2020] 2020

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Dealing with death : practices and procedures


Green, Jennifer, 1938 May 2-
London : Philadelphia, PA : 2006. 2006

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Death and dying in New Mexico


Will de Chaparro, Martina, 1967-
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press ; 2007. 2007

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Death and the Afterlife : A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection


Pickover, Clifford A., author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Sterling, 2015. 2015

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Death lore : Texas rituals, superstitions, and legends of the hereafter



Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, [2008] 2008

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Death need not be fatal


McCourt, Malachy, 1931- author.
New York : Center Street, 2017. 2017

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Dying : a memoir


Taylor, Cory, 1955-2016, author.
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2017. 2017

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Dying, assisted death and mourning



Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009. 2009

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Dying with dignity : a legal approach to assisted death


Lopes, Giza, author.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015. 2015

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From here to eternity : traveling the world to find the good death


Doughty, Caitlin, author.
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] 2017

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From here to eternity : traveling the world to find the good death


Doughty, Caitlin, author.
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018. 2018

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Funeral festivals in America : rituals for the living


Thursby, Jacqueline S., 1940-
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2006] 2006

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Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life


Giffels, David, author.
New York : Scribner, 2018. 2018

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Good grief : on loving pets, here and hereafter


Bartels, E. B., author.
[New York] : HarperCollins, [2022] 2022

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Green burial guidebook : everything you need to plan an affordable, environmentally friendly burial


Fournier, Elizabeth, author.
Novato, California : New World Library, [2018] 2018

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Heavens on earth : the scientific search for the afterlife, immortality, and utopia


Shermer, Michael, author.
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. 2018

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Human remains and identification : mass violence, genocide and the 'forensic turn'



Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015. 2015

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Human Remains and Identification : Mass Violence, Genocide and the Forensic Turn



Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015. 2015

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I'm All Wrapped Up! : Meet a Mummy.


Knudsen, Shannon, 1971-
[Place of publication not identified] : Millbrook Press, 2014. 2014

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In My Time of Dying : How I Came Face to Face With the Idea of an Afterlife


Junger, Sebastian, author, narrator.
[New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2024] 2024

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In the slender margin : the intimate strangeness of death and dying


Joseph, Eve, 1953- author.
New York : Arcade Publishing, 2016. 2016

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The last word : reviving the dying art of eulogy


Cooper, Julia, 1985- author.
Toronto : Coach House Books, 2017. 2017

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Let's talk about death : asking the questions that profoundly change the way we live and die


Gordon, Steve, 1956-
Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2015. 2015

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Let's talk about death over dinner : an invitation and guide to life's most important conversation


Hebb, Michael, author.
New York, NY : Da Capo, 2018. 2018

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Living and Dying


Anthony, Mark, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : HigherLife Publishing / Independent Publishers Group, [2017] 2017

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Making an exit : from the magnificent to the macabre-how we dignify the dead


Murray, Sarah (Sarah Elizabeth)
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2011] 2011

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The modern art of dying : a history of euthanasia in the United States


Lavi, Shai Joshua, 1970- author.
Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2007. 2007

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Modern death : how medicine changed the end of life


Warraich, Haider, author.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017. 2017

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Modern loss : candid conversation about grief : beginners welcome


Soffer, Rebecca, author.
New York, NY : Harper Wave, [2018] 2018

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Natural causes : an epidemic of wellness, the certainty of dying, and killing ourselves to live long


Ehrenreich, Barbara, author.
New York : Twelve, 2018. 2018

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Natural causes : an epidemic of wellness, the certainty of dying, and killing ourselves to live long


Ehrenreich, Barbara, author.
New York : Twelve, 2018. 2018

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The removers : a memoir


Meredith, Andrew, 1975-
New York : Scribner, 2014. 2014

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Representations of death : a social psychological perspective


Bradbury, Mary, 1964- author.
New York : Routledge, 1999. 1999

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Rest in pieces : the curious fates of famous corpses


Lovejoy, Bess.
New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2013. 2013

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A teacher's handbook of death


Jackson, Maggie.
London : Jessica Kingsley, 2002. 2002

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Things I've learned from dying : a book about life


Dow, David R., author.
New York : Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, 2014. 2014

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A traveler's guide to the afterlife : traditions and beliefs on death, dying, and what lies beyond


Mirabello, M. L. (Mark Linden), author.
Rochester, Vermont : Inner Traditions, 2016. 2016

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The way we die now : the view from medicine's front line


O'Mahony, Seamus, author.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2017. 2017

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When breath becomes air


Kalanithi, Paul, author.
New York : Random House, 2016. 2016

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When breath becomes air


Kalanithi, Paul, author.
New York, New York : Random House Audio : Books on Tape, [2016] 2016

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Will my cat eat my eyeballs? : big questions from tiny mortals about death


Doughty, Caitlin, author.
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019] 2019

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