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While death is a natural event, modern end-of-life experiences are shaped by new medical, demographic, and cultural trends. People who are dying are kept alive, sometimes against their will or the will of their family, with powerful medications, machines, and "heroic measures".

Determined to find out what happens when we die, Josh Langley takes listeners on an extraordinary journey to uncover the secrets to the age-old question pondered by all of humanity. Visiting crematoriums, conducting out-of-body experiments and entering conversations with the deceased, you’re invited on this daring and intriguing afterlife investigation for a humorous and compelling ride. Following Langley’s lifelong obsession with the afterlife, his surprising and thought-provoking conclusions will leave you spiralling long after the last word.

Bringt uns die Medizin das ewige Leben? Wollen wir das überhaupt? Während die Religion von jeher ein Leben nach dem Tod anbietet, hat die Heilkunde dafür keinen Plan. Deshalb lautet das oberste Gebot der Medizin: Der Tod muss um jeden Preis bekämpft, das Sterben mit allen Mitteln verzögert werden. Die Gesundheitsindustrie dominiert unser Leben von der Zeugung bis zum Tod. Nun erweiterte sie ihr Angebot von der Heilung zum Versprechen der ewigen Instandhaltung.

¿Quién no ha sentido, al menos una vez en la vida, el deseo de alejarse del mundo? ¿Quién no ha soñado con dejarlo todo y desaparecer? La tentación de la huida, el motivo de la fuga mundi, es recurrente en nuestra cultura porque permanece vivo a lo largo de la historia, y siempre provoca una mezcla de fascinación, nostalgia y callado remordimiento. Para seguir su rastro, de la huida al desierto predicada en el siglo IV por el eremitismo cristiano al exaltado elogio de la evasión entonado por los hippies de la década de 1960, el sociólogo Rémy Oudghiri se ha deshecho de las herramientas habituales de su oficio.

You might think this book is about pain. It is not. It is about the journey of two women who loved Clayton unconditionally. It is a tale of overcoming devastating loss, turning hopelessness into hope, sadness into joy and trauma into healing. It spotlights the magnification of love and a shifting of lives in surprising and unpredictable directions.

This is a book of stories and inspiration. And it’s a little more than that. It’s a collaboration of 25 end-of-life experts, coaches, healers, therapists, and practitioners who’ve trained in modalities to assist the dying, and their caregivers. This is a powerful book with glimpses into what’s next for us. It’s a collection of brave authors who share, not only what death means to them, but how life has changed with their deeper understanding.

Cada día, la directora de funerarias Caitlin Doughty recibe docenas de preguntas sobre la muerte. Las mejores son las de los niños. ¿Qué le pasaría al cuerpo de un astronauta si lo empujaran desde un transbordador espacial? ¿Se hace caca al morir? ¿Puede la abuela celebrar un funeral vikingo? En "¿Se comerá mi gato mis ojos?", Doughty combina sus conocimientos funerarios sobre el cuerpo y la intrigante historia que se esconde tras las ideas erróneas más comunes sobre los cadáveres para ofrecer respuestas objetivas, divertidas y sinceras.

Lexi saw him for the first time in the fourth-floor pediatric cancer clinic. He was tall, handsome, and had a full head of dark hair—nothing like the little kids she was used to meeting during her routine hospital visits. No, Ricky was wholly unexpected. He stared at her, mesmerized by her stunning blue eyes. She looked at him carefully, wondering what his motivation for hanging out in a cancer clinic could be. He smiled confidently, unbothered by her bald scalp. Lexi softly returned the smile. Neither of them aware how this moment would entwine them forever.

A diferencia de la vida, la ciencia carece de límites. Los inconmensurables avances de la tecnología médica han prolongado, no siempre para bien, la vida. Cuando privan la desesperanza, el dolor, el sufrimiento y el desasosiego, y se prolonga la muerte por el uso inadecuado de la biomedicina, el ser humano tiene derecho a elegir cuándo y cómo morir. Adueñarse del final es un privilegio. Hacerlo dignifica a la persona, ilumina su historia y enaltece a quienes acompañan al enfermo y caminan a su lado el tramo final.

With the sudden deaths of both of her parents, Mallory McDuff began to research sustainable practices around death and dying. For McDuff, an educator and environmentalist, what started as a highly personal endeavor expanded into a yearlong exploration and assessment of green burials, aquamation, green cemeteries, home funerals, and human composting. In Our Last Best Act, McDuff bridges the gap between environmental action and religious faith by demonstrating that when the two are combined, they become a powerful force for the greater good

As anyone with a chronic illness knows, hope can sometimes be hard to come by. For parents and caregivers of children with serious illness, there can be a real struggle to move beyond one's own grief, fear, and suffering to see what hope means for these kids.

Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective cultural consciousness. The authors explore the materiality and meaning of the dead body and the living's relationship to it. All the biggest questions facing the planetary human community relate in one way or another to the corpse. Surprisingly, Christian communities are largely missing in the discussion of the dead, having abdicated the historic role in care for the dead to the funeral industry.

Memento vivere è una serie che esplora il tabù della morte nella nostra società, attraverso un viaggio che tocca diversi temi ma che punta a una sola destinazione: conoscere il senso della morte per imparare ad apprezzare più intensamente la vita.

Der Tod ist noch immer eines der größten Tabuthemen in Deutschland. In diesem Original Podcast widmen sich die Journalisten Christoph Schrag und Hendrik Schröder dem großen schwarzen Fleck.

Wir haben es verlernt, mit den Sterbenden zu trauern. Mehr noch: Wir lassen sie in ihrer letzten Zeit oft allein. Aber warum verdrängen wir das Abschiednehmen so sehr? Warum ist Trauer ein Unzustand, den es möglichst schnell zu überwinden gilt? Sterbebegleiterin Sabrina Görlitz schreibt klug, liebevoll und schonungslos über die Gefühle am Ende eines Lebens. Sie erzählt von ihrem eigenen Schmerz, als sie ihren Vater in den Tod begleitete, und von den bewegenden Momenten mit Sterbenden, deren Lebenserinnerungen sie als Geschichtenpflegerin auf der Palliativstation aufschrieb.

Historias sobre despedidas, lo que sea que eso pueda significar para cada uno de los autores.

If I Should Die Before I Wake leads listeners on a quest to understand what it means to be a human being unbound from materialistic society. While it touches on timeless spiritual knowledge, it does not endorse any particular supreme being, or spiritual traditions reliant upon rites, rituals, dogma, or intercession. Instead, the book seeks to equip listeners with the knowledge and tools they need to fulfill their spiritual destiny.