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Hablar de la muerte es hablar de la vida. En nuestra sociedad, la muerte sigue siendo un tema tabú. Ya sea por miedo, desconocimiento o dolor, solemos evitarla, a pesar de que forma parte del ciclo vital de todos. Este libro te invita a mirarla de frente, sin miedo y con comprensión. A través de una mirada compasiva y profundamente humana, la autora nos guía por las diferentes etapas del proceso de morir: desde los cambios físicos y emocionales hasta los aspectos espirituales más sutiles que muchas veces pasamos por alto.

Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now legally available to one in five Americans. This growing social and political movement heralds the possibility of a new era of choice in dying. Yet very little is publicly known about how medical aid-in-dying laws affect ordinary citizens once they are put into practice.

As-tu récemment perdu ton chien, ou sens-tu que ce moment approche ? Quand on perd son chien, on ne perd pas seulement un animal. On perd une partie de soi. Des années d’amour, de complicité, de gestes quotidiens partagés se transforment soudain en un silence assourdissant que personne ne nous apprend vraiment à traverser. On te répète que « ce n’était qu’un chien » ou que « le temps guérira tout », mais ceux qui n’ont jamais aimé ainsi ne peuvent comprendre combien cela fait mal.

Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. Death disrupts technologists' plans for platforms. It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism.

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.

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.

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

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.

Het woord euthanasie komt uit het Grieks en betekent goede dood of genadedood. De term kent vanuit de geschiedenis verschillende betekenissen en invullingen. Meestal wordt met euthanasie het volgende bedoeld: het op hun eigen verzoek beëindigen van het leven van patiënten die ondraaglijk en uitzichtloos lijden. In de meeste landen is euthanasie bij wet verboden en wordt het vervolgd als een misdrijf. In enkele landen, waaronder Nederland en België, is euthanasie gelegaliseerd.

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

Final Choices is a personal story that discusses an often-avoided topic in families in our society: our own death and dying or that of our loved ones. Whether we want to or not, we all need to prepare for the final moments in our lives. The process of dying and the grief that comes after is something that we need not be blindsided by, but can prepare for.

For those who care for chronically ill children, a new understanding of hope that equips adults to better nurture pediatric hope among sick kids—articulated by the children themselves As anyone with a chronic illness knows, hope can sometimes be hard to come by. For parents and caregivers of...

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.

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.

No one who listen to this book will ever again think of his or her own death in the same way. The first part of the book consists of a thought-provoking essay, in which Fingarette examines the metaphors that mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as the denial of death, and selflessness as a kind of consolation. He also thinks through some of the more illuminating metaphors: death as the end of the world for me, death as the conclusion of a story, life as ceremony, and life as a tourist visit to earth.

One thing you can count on in life is the fact that you are going to die. How’s that for a buzzkill? Most people diligently ignore the reality of their future demise. Thinking about death somehow seems wrong. Luckily, a real life coroner challenged a few thousand internet strangers to do the thinking for you. The result is a collection of morbid and slightly embarrassing questions all about The End.

Grief does not follow a timeline or a set path. It is nonlinear and messy, doubling back on itself just when you thought you were out of the woods. Those who have experienced the loss of a loved one know this unequivocally, but Western society still seems to think that grief should only last six months to a year—tops—when in fact, grief can last throughout a person's entire life and manifest as serious mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, anger, and despair.

His routine was the same every day for 38 years...until March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic shut hospital surgeries all over the world.. Craig Smith, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, went from performing heart surgeries on patients both everyday and celebrated to sitting in his tomb-quiet office looking out at George Washington Bridge. And he started to write. His COVID emails were balm to the staffers and later became celebrated for Dr. Smith’s care and thought in his assessment of the work of the hospital–of any hospital.