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By James W. Green. 2008
In November 1998, millions of television viewers watched as Thomas Youk died. Suffering from the late stages of Lou Gehrig's…
disease, Youk had called upon infamous Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian to help end his life on his own terms. After delivering the videotape to 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was arrested and convicted of manslaughter, despite the fact that Youk's family firmly believed that the ending of his life qualified as a good death.Death is political, as the controversies surrounding Jack Kevorkian and, more recently, Terri Schiavo have shown. 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." Current research on end-of-life issues is substantial, involving many fields. Beyond the Good Death takes an anthropological approach, examining the changes in our concept of death over the last several decades. As author James W. Green determines, the attitudes of today's baby boomers differ greatly from those of their parents and grandparents, who spoke politely and in hushed voices of those who had "passed away." Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, in the 1960s, gave the public a new language for speaking openly about death with her "five steps of dying." If we talked more about death, she emphasized, it would become less fearful for everyone.The term "good death" reentered the public consciousness as narratives of AIDS, cancer, and other chronic diseases were featured on talk shows and in popular books such as the best-selling Tuesdays with Morrie. Green looks at a number of contemporary secular American death practices that are still informed by an ancient religious ethos. Most important, Beyond the Good Death provides an interpretation of the ways in which Americans react when death is at hand for themselves or for those they care about.By Simon Critchley. 2019
«Critchley es probablemente el filósofo más perspicaz y lúcido del mundo anglosajón actual. Aunque lo haga con humor, tiene algo…
realmente serio que decir.»London Review of Books «¿La muerte? No pienso en ella». Si este comentario, atribuido a Jean-Paul Sartre, es cierto, entonces él era único entre los filósofos. Ya que, como Simon Critchley muestra en este original y estimulante libro, la cuestión de qué puede considerarse un «buena muerte» ha sido, desde tiempos muy remotos, la preocupación central de la filosofía. Pero ¿qué hay de las propias muertes de los filósofos? De las 190 que aquí se relatan, muchas son extravagantes, y abundan las historias de locura, asesinatos, suicidio y padecimiento. Heráclito murió asfixiado en el estiércol; Empédocles se zambulló en el Etna esperando convertirse así en un dios; las últimas palabras de Hegel, refiriéndose a sí mismo, fueron: «sólo un hombre me ha comprendido en la vida, y aun él creo que no me comprendió»; Jeremy Bentham se hizo disecar, y se halla, a la vista de todos, en el University College de Londres; Nietzsche sufrió una lenta y estúpida muerte a raíz de haber besado a un caballo en Turín... Desde la autoburla de los maestros zen en los haikus en su lecho de muerte hasta las últimas palabras de los santos cristianos o de los sabios contemporáneos, El libro de los filósofos muertos inspira tanto diversión como reflexión. Como Critchley demuestra con brillantez, observar de cerca lo que los grandes pensadores dijeron de la muerte resulta ser una optimista indagación sobre el significado y la viabilidad de la felicidad humana. Para aprender a vivir hay que saber morir.By Kathryn Mannix. 2017
For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for…
the dying.Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar and gentle process, death has come to be something from which we shy away, preferring to fight it desperately than to accept its inevitability. Palliative care has a long tradition in Britain, where Dr. Kathryn Mannix has practiced it for 30 years. In this book, she shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying. With insightful meditations on life, death, and the space between them, With the End in Mind describes the possibility of meeting death gently, with forethought and preparation, and shows the unexpected beauty, dignity, and profound humanity of life coming to an end.By Colleen Sell. 2010
For those who have suffered the loss of a family member or dear friend, it's easy to feel alone. This…
book assures you that others understand and empathize with the pain you are experiencing.Featuring stories of solace and peace from those who have displayed the courage to go on, these tenderhearted personal accounts provide a supportive shoulder to cry on during a time of need.They say only time can alleviate the pain of grieving. But this moving collection will help you celebrate the lives of your dearly departed loved ones, and keep your heart brimming with bittersweet memories.By Alexandra Chauran. 2015
Comunicarte con los espíritus de tus seres queridos es posibleCrea un plan para comunicarte con los espíritus de tus seres…
queridosHabla conmigo cuando me haya ido es la guía perfecta para explorar todas las posibilidades de contacto con nuestros seres amados que nos esperan en la otra vida. Alexandra Chauran te enseña cómo tener comunicación con los espíritus de los amigos y familiares difuntos, así como técnicas notables para expresar amor, consuelo y orientación.Este libro es una línea de vida espiritual para los que creen o para aquellos que simplemente tienen una mente abierta y esperan mantener un dulce contacto espiritual, siempre. Aprenderás ejercicios fáciles para crear lazos con amigos y familiares que pueden durar una eternidad, y para soltar todos esos viejos mecanismos propios o arraigados que tienen que ver con el resentimiento, la amargura o el dolor; el propósito de Alexandra Chauran es crear vínculos espirituales bellos y trascendentales.By Jessica Pierce. 2012
From the moment when we first open our homes--and our hearts--to a new pet, we know that one day we…
will have to watch this beloved animal age and die. The pain of that eventual separation is the cruel corollary to the love we share with them, and most of us deal with it by simply ignoring its inevitability. With The Last Walk, Jessica Pierce makes a forceful case that our pets, and the love we bear them, deserve better. Drawing on the moving story of the last year of the life of her own treasured dog, Ody, she presents an in-depth exploration of the practical, medical, and moral issues that trouble pet owners confronted with the decline and death of their companion animals. Pierce combines heart-wrenching personal stories, interviews, and scientific research to consider a wide range of questions about animal aging, end-of-life care, and death. She tackles such vexing questions as whether animals are aware of death, whether they're feeling pain, and if and when euthanasia is appropriate. Given what we know and can learn, how should we best honor the lives of our pets, both while they live and after they have left us? The product of a lifetime of loving pets, studying philosophy, and collaborating with scientists at the forefront of the study of animal behavior and cognition, The Last Walk asks--and answers--the toughest questions pet owners face. The result is informative, moving, and consoling in equal parts; no pet lover should miss it.By Ray Flynn, Steve Ross, Glenn Frank, Brian Wallace. 2018
From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, an inspiring…
memoir about finding strength in the face of despair.On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German authorities and civilians ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers.Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was finally liberated, he no longer knew how old he was, he was literally starving to death, and everyone in his family save for his brother had been killed.Ross learned in his darkest experiences--by observing and enduring inconceivable cruelty as well as by receiving compassion from caring fellow prisoners--the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances. He decided to devote himself to underprivileged youth, aiming to ensure that despite the obstacles in their lives they would never experience suffering like he had. Over the course of a nearly forty-year career as a psychologist working in the Boston city schools, that was exactly what he did. At the end of his career, he spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial, a site millions of people including young students visit every year.Equal parts heartrending, brutal, and inspiring, From Broken Glass is the story of how one man survived the unimaginable and helped lead a new generation to forge a more compassionate world.By David Giffels. 2018
“Giffels does well as a voice of the Midwest…but this is for everyone.” —Library Journal From the acclaimed author of…
The Hard Way on Purpose, a vibrant, heartfelt memoir about confronting mortality, surviving loss, finding resilience in one’s Midwest roots and seeking a father’s wisdom through an unusual woodworking project—constructing his own coffin.David Giffels grew up fascinated by his father’s dusty, tool-strewn workshop and the countless creations—some practical, others fantastical—it inspired. So when he enlisted his eighty-one-year-old dad to help him with the unusual project of building his own casket, he thought of it mostly as an opportunity to sharpen his woodworking skills and to spend time together. But life, as it usually does, had other plans. The unexpected deaths of his mother and, a year later, his best friend, coupled with the dawning realization that his father wouldn’t be around forever for such offbeat adventures—and neither would he—led to a harsh confrontation with mortality and loss. Over the course of several seasons, Giffels returned to his father’s barn in rural Ohio, a place cluttered with heirloom tools, exotic wood scraps, and long memory, to continue a pursuit that grew into a meditation on grief and optimism, a quest for enlightenment, and a way to cherish time with an aging parent. With wisdom and humor, Giffels grapples with some of the hardest questions we all face as he and his father saw, hammer, and sand their way through a year bowed by loss. Furnishing Eternity is the story of a family searching for hope in its roots and the unexpected truths we arrive at in the process of creating and constructing. Heartfelt, unvarnished, and piercing with insight, this powerful memoir is Giffels’s most intimate exploration yet of the values and traditions that illuminate the Midwest.Newly updated and expanded to commemorate its twentieth anniversary--this classic resource helps people complete the grieving process and move toward…
recovery and happiness.Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others', the authors illustrate how it is possible to recover from grief and regain energy and spontaneity. Based on a proven program, The Grief Recovery Handbook offers grievers the specific actions needed to move beyond loss. New material in this edition includes guidance for dealing with: Loss of faith Loss of career and financial issues Loss of health Growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional homeBy Tasher. 2019
Divorciado y Asustado ¡No Más!: Apoyo emocional para los recién divorciados te provee con la motivación que necesitas pera librarte…
con seguridad del dolor y la traición de tu matrimonio fallido. Tasher habla desde su experiencia personal tras haber pasado a través de muchas etapas propias de las relaciones, como la negación de un matrimonio fallido, la expresividad necesaria para llegar a sanar, y permanecer emocionalmente estable. En esta lectura encontrarás maneras para abrazar tu libertad recién descubierta, mientras obtienes una apreciación más profunda de tu valor y nueva identidad después del divorcio. Tasher escribe desde el corazón, y se equilibra empatizando contigo, pero dejando que tú tomes la responsabilidad de tu felicidad mediante un diálogo honesto Tasher revisa los puntos convincentes de sanidad y fuerza, los cuales comparte con una franqueza que encontrarás liberadora. Continúa animando a aquellos que han sufrido con la negación, la ira, y la depresión por la pérdida de una pareja. Comparte el valor emocional de la ayuda que los amigos y la familia puede proveer, animando emocionalmente al necesitado de vitalidad emocional. También explora las preguntas frecuentes en el divorcio, como la manera en que Dios ve a aquellos que han estado divorciados, si van o no al cielo y mucho más; habla de temas como el abuso, la co-dependencia y el amor propio, ayudándote a identificar las relaciones no saludables. Después de explorar los Capítulos informativos de esta lectura, te sentirás inspirado para ver dentro de ti, dándote cuenta de tus necesidades y vivir otra vez. Todavía hay vida después de una muerte emocional. Divorciado y Asustado ¡No Más!: Apoyo emocional para los recién divorciados te provee con la motivación que necesitas pera librarte con seguridad del dolor y la traición de tu matrimonio fallido. Tasher habla desde su experiencia personal tras haber pasado a través de muchas etapas propias de lasBy Katy Butler. 2019
A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings…
of a serious illness to the final breath—by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door.The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own “good death” more likely. This handbook of step by step preparations—practical, communal, physical, and sometimes spiritual—will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it decades, years, or months. Butler explains how to successfully age in place, why to pick a younger doctor and how to have an honest conversation with her, when not to call 911, and how to make your death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event. This down-to-earth manual for living, aging, and dying with meaning and even joy is based on Butler’s own experience caring for aging parents, as well as hundreds of interviews with people who have successfully navigated a fragmented health system and helped their loved ones have good deaths. It also draws on interviews with nationally recognized experts in family medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, oncology, hospice, and other medical specialties. Inspired by the medieval death manual Ars Moriendi, or the Art of Dying, The Art of Dying Well is the definitive update for our modern age, and illuminates the path to a better end of life.By Harriet Hodgson. 2012
Will I survive? Will I ever be happy again? These are questions that Harriet Hodgson asked herself after she was…
left to raise her twin grandchildren, while grieving for four family members, including her daughter. Harriet reminds us that we are not alone in our grief and, though losses may define our lives, they will not destroy them.By Terri Ann Leidich. 2010
When Terri Ann Leidich's twenty-year-old son was suddenly killed in a vehicle accident, she was thrown into the roller coaster…
agony of grief. Adapted from the journal she kept through the experience of her horrendous loss, this book is a roadmap for parents who have lost children, as well as for those who are on the sidelines, watching the agony of someone they care about and not knowing what to do or how to help. Terri Ann's ability to put emotions and experiences into words that everyone can understand and relate to can shine as a beacon of hope and understanding during a time of excruciating pain.By Dolly Hills. 2017
A Mother's Tears for a Missing Son is a first hand account of my personal journey when my son mysteriously…
disappears in remote Alaska wilderness. It describes the adventures of a free spirited young man who lived on the edge of life and whose choices brought him and his family to an unforeseen outcome of bizarre twists and turns. The expansiveness of the environment offers a setting where the unexpected can happen at a moment's notice. A Mother's Tears for a Missing Son is a story of hope, faith, and trust, with a determination to never give up. I struggled to maintain endurance and courage, through an intense time of grief. As the story unravels, I realized the many opportunities for growth as I navigated my way through a devastating experience with resilience and came to understand the need to fully embrace and process the grief – while enduring personal tragedy. Ultimately, a sense of peace predominates.Six women, one aim and the stories they never told.Each week, six women of different ages and from varying backgrounds…
come together at The Bluebell Inn. They form an unlikely and occasionally triumphant, ladies darts team, but it is there hidden stories of love and loss that in the end binds them. There is the Irish widow with a heartbreaking secret; the young daughter of a gypsy family experiencing love for the first time; a cat woman alone with her memories who must return to the place of her birth before it's all too late. Their unspoken stories are ones of heartache, dull marriages, abusive relationships, lost loves and secret hopes. These displaced women know little of each other's lives, but their weekly meetings at their local pub weave a delicate and sustaining connection between them all, a constant that maybe they can rely on as the crossroads in their individual lives threaten to overwhelm.Raw, funny and devastating, all of life can be found at the Bluebell.By Frank Tallis. 2018
A psychologist explores the intersection of love and madness through the riveting stories of the patients he has treatedIn The…
Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: a woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist is secretly infatuated with her and drives him to leave the country; a man destroys his massive fortune through trysts with over three thousand prostitutes--because his ego requires that they fall in love with him; a beautiful woman's pathological jealousy destroys the men who love her. Along the way, we learn a great deal about the history of psychiatry and the role of neuroscience in addressing disordered love. Elegantly written and infused with deep sympathy, The Incurable Romantic shows how all of us can become a bit crazy in love.By Sue Trace Lawrence. 2020
The Grieving Child in the Classroom integrates the latest research on children’s bereavement and adapts it for use in the…
classroom. Chapters tackle the neurological, cognitive, emotional, and social effects of childhood grief and demonstrate the ways in which those reactions can manifest in the classroom. By recognizing individual differences in coping styles and considering variables such as developmental stage, nature of the loss, and availability of support, teachers and staff can become better equipped to respond to the bereaved child’s needs. The book incorporates theoretical explanations of grief responses as well as practical suggestions for supporting bereaved children in real-world settings. Whether the loss affects one child or the entire student body, educators can turn to this comprehensive guidebook for ways to support grieving students in their classrooms.By Marcelo Rittner, Ana Gladys Vargas. 2019
En este libro está la clave para atravesar la oscuridad del sufrimiento: sólo debemos permitir que la luz del amor…
nos guíe. De madres y padres que perdieron a sus hijos e hijas para madres y padres que perdieron a sus hijos e hijas. El dolor de perder a un hijo o a una hija es tan grande que ni siquiera hay una palabra para nombrar a los padres y madres que lo padecen. En un intento por describir este sentimiento y darle sentido, Marcelo Rittner y Ana Gladys Vargas profundizan en experiencias personales y profesionales sobre el duelo, al tiempo que conversan con padres y madres que lo atraviesan, las únicas personas que saben lo que realmente significa. A través de estos testimonios, el dolor revela su verdadero rostro: el del amor que tenemos por quienes están ausentes. Y así sabemos que no todo está perdido, que las formas de amar son infinitas, que aún hay muchas razonespara seguir adelante en esta vida y disfrutar sus enseñanzas, para estar junto a la familia y amistades que queremos y nos quieren.While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the…
Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes as its premise that one cannot grasp the significance of mwt ("to die") without first having wrestled with the concept of ḥyy ("to live"). In this book, Matthew McAffee takes a lexical approach to the study of life and death in the Ugaritic textual corpus. He identifies and analyzes the Ugaritic terms most commonly used to talk about life and mortality in order to construct a more representative framework of the ancient perspective on these topics, and he concludes by synthesizing the results of this lexical study into a broader literary discussion that considers, among other things, the implications for our understanding of the first-millennium Katumuwa stele from Zincirli.McAffee’s study complements previous scholarly work in this area, which has tended to rely on conceptual and theoretical treatment of mortality, and advances the discussion by providing a more focused lexical analysis of the Ugaritic terms in question. It will be of interest to Semitic scholars and those who study Ugaritic in particular, in addition to students of the culture of the ancient Levant.By Litt Woon Long. 2019
A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing—hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after…
arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf’s unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years. Adrift in grief, she signed up for a beginner’s course on mushrooming—a course the two of them had planned to take together—and found, to her surprise, that the pursuit of mushrooms rekindled her zest for life. The Way Through the Woods tells the story of parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushrooms—resilient, adaptable, and essential to nature’s cycle of death and rebirth. From idyllic Norwegian forests and urban flower beds to the sandy beaches of Corsica and New York’s Central Park, Woon uncovers an abundance of surprises often hidden in plain sight: salmon-pink Bloody Milk Caps, which ooze red liquid when cut; delectable morels, prized for their earthy yet delicate flavor; and bioluminescent mushrooms that light up the forest at night. Along the way, she discovers the warm fellowship of other mushroom obsessives, and finds that giving her full attention to the natural world transforms her, opening a way for her to survive Eiolf’s death, to see herself anew, and to reengage with life.Advance praise for The Way Through The Woods“In her search for new meaning in life after the death of her husband, Long Litt Woon undertook the study of mushrooms. What she found in the woods, and expresses with such tender joy in this heartfelt memoir, was nothing less than salvation.”—Eugenia Bone, author of Mycophilia and Microbia