Laokoon and How the Ancients Represented Death

Using a historical framework, this book offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have given women the death penalty, but it also retells the storie...

How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death. Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with co...

The core of the text of this book combines the theory and practice of determining brain death. The history and development of clinical criteria of brain death is revisited. The com...

Major religious traditions of the world contain perspectives of perennial importance on the topic of death and afterlife. Such concepts and beliefs are not only reflected directly ...

By managing death issues in a planned purposeful manner, schools can reduce suicide and other harmful behavioral reactions substantially. Helping students to understand death and l...

In November 2015, Rosalind’s only son, Fredy [sic], dies in a car accident on his eighteenth birthday, plunging her and the prayer house community into grief. Our Lady Jecintho Pra...

Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing. Mortality rates were high, plague and disease in urb...