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1) Making peace with death and dying: a practical guide to liberating ourselves from the death taboo
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"Making Peace with Death and Dying dissolves anxiety and equips readers to encounter death in a peaceful, well-prepared way. Readers learn to accept death as a natural part of life, be of better service to the dying and grieving, live with greater purpose and passion, be more peaceful in the presence of death, and approach death on their own terms with wisdom and competency"--
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"Recent decades have witnessed what appears to be a substantial increase in the numbers of new public memorials built in Europe and the United States. In The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials: Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials, Erika Doss considers this contemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices regarding mourning, memory, and public feeling. Memorials, she argues, are the physical...
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"A Strange and Fearful Interest explores how photography and other media were used to describe, to explain, and perhaps to come to terms with the national trauma of the American Civil War. The volume focuses on the Battle of Antietam, not only the bloodiest day in the nation's history but also the first in which photographs of American battlefield dead were made; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the national mourning that ensued, and the execution...
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