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 Free Download Fred Craddock, "Speaking of Dying: Recovering the Church's Voice in the Face of Death" English | 2012 | ISBN: 1587433230 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.9 mb The church does not cope very well with dying. Instead of using its own resources to mount a positive end-of-life ministry for the terminally ill, it outsources care to secular models, providers, and services. A terminal diagnosis typically triggers denial of impending death and placing faith in the techniques and resources of modern medicine. If a cure is not forthcoming, the patient and his or her loved ones experience a sense of failure and bitter disappointment.  Free Download Anita Diamant, "Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0805210881, 0805241493 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 3.6 mb From beloved New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist-the definitive guide to Judaism's end-of-life rituals, revised and updated for Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs.  Free Download Elizabeth Weil, "No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried To Make It Better." English | 2014 | ISBN: 1439168245, 1439168229 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.8 mb Written with charm and wit, No Cheating, No Dying investigates one of the most universal human institutions-marriage. Elizabeth Weil and her husband Dan have two basic ground rules for their marriage: no cheating, no dying. For ten years it's worked fine, but Elizabeth started to wonder if it could be better.  Free Download Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism By Daniel Boyarin 1999 | 247 Pages | ISBN: 0804736170 | DJVU | 24 MB Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quite a bit more complicated than that. In the Jewish world of the first century, many sects competed for the name of the true Israel and the true interpreter of the Torah―the Talmud itself speaks of seventy―and the form of Judaism that was to be the seedbed of what eventually became the Christian Church was but one of these many sects. Scholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity, interpreting the two "new" religions as intensely and complexly intertwined throughout this period. Although the "officials" of the eventual winners in both communities―the Rabbis in Judaism and the orthodox leaders in Christianity―sought to deny it, until the end of late antiquity many people remained both Christians and Jews. This resulted, among other things, in much shared religious innovation that affected the respective orthodoxies as well. Dying for God aims to establish this model as a realistic one through close and comparative readings of contemporary Christian texts and Talmudic narratives that thematize the connections and differences between Christians and Jews as these emerged around the issue of martyrdom. The author argues that, in the end, the developing discourse of martyrology involved the circulation and exchange of cultural and religious innovations between the two communities as they moved toward sharper self-definition. ![Populus Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome [Audiobook]](https://i123.fastpic.org/big/2024/0422/31/712c746e28c5d16055fa6677dc3c0531.jpeg) Free Download Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0CBKYRWF6 | 2024 | 15 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 839 MB Author: Guy de la Bédoyère Narrator: Mark Meadows A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world. Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of a city that ruled the known world. Through the words of Tacitus, Seneca, Martial, and a host of others including ordinary Romans, Guy de la Bédoyère takes the reader into a world of violent politics, civil disorder, unspeakably brutal entertainments, extravagance, decadence, eroticism, exotica, and staggering inequality, participated in daily by the Roman people from the hyper-rich elite to the lowliest slaves. Populus places those who experienced Rome in person at the forefront of their story, from the rabble-rousing senator Clodius Pulcher to Pliny the Elder and Hortensia who defended the rights of women in court to the ex-slave and celebrity baker Eurysaces.  Free Download Nina Riggs, "The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying" English | 2018 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1501169378, 143284346X | EPUB | 1,7 mb * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
 Free Download Derek A. Welsby, "Gematon: Living and Dying in a Kushite Town on the Nile, Volume I: Excavations at Kawa, 1997-2018 (1) " English | ISBN: 1803276762 | 2023 | 470 pages | PDF | 138 MB The first of a set of three volumes publishing the excavations at the site of Kawa, Northern Dongola Reach, between 1997 and 2018 by the Sudan Archaeological Research Society. Volume I contains a detailed study of the excavations carried out in Areas A, B, C, and F, as well as the temenos gateway, Building Z1 and the Kushite cemetery R18. Its comprehensive analysis of distinct building phases provides the reader with an in-depth understanding of the activities and subsequent changes at the site over its long history. This is heavily illustrated with photographs, maps, and line drawings, providing a thorough study of the research undertaken during this fieldwork. ![Death, Dying, and the Afterlife Lessons from World Cultures [TTC Audio]](https://i123.fastpic.org/big/2024/0324/9a/53173575c6a214ee059638eaf0281a9a.jpeg) Free Download Death, Dying, and the Afterlife: Lessons from World Cultures [TTC Audio] English | February 05, 2016 | ASIN: B01AYGEPUU | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 33m | 713 MB Lecturer: Mark Berkson After thousands of years of pondering it, we still find death one of life's most perplexing mysteries. Many cultures view death as a window into the true meaning of life. These 24 lectures looking at this often feared subject are an uplifting, meaningful, and multidisciplinary exploration of life's only certainty. Bringing together theology, philosophy, biology, anthropology, literature, psychology, sociology, and other fields, they are a brilliant compendium of how human beings have struggled to come to terms with mortality. You'll encounter everything from ancient burial practices, traditional views of the afterlife, and the five stages of grief to the question of killing during wartime, the phenomenon of near-death experiences, and even 21st-century theories about transcending death itself.  Free Download The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America By Emily K. Abel 2013 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 1421409194 | PDF | 3 MB At the turn of the twentieth century, medicine's imperative to cure disease increasingly took priority over the demand to relieve pain and suffering at the end of life. Filled with heartbreaking stories, The Inevitable Hour demonstrates that professional attention and resources gradually were diverted from dying patients.Emily K. Abel challenges three myths about health care and dying in America. First, that medicine has always sought authority over death and dying; second, that medicine superseded the role of families and spirituality at the end of life; and finally, that only with the advent of the high-tech hospital did an institutional death become dehumanized. Abel shows that hospitals resisted accepting dying patients and often worked hard to move them elsewhere. Poor, terminally ill patients, for example, were shipped from Bellevue Hospital in open boats across the East River to Blackwell's Island, where they died in hovels, mostly without medical care. Some terminal patients were not forced to leave, yet long before the advent of feeding tubes and respirators, dying in a hospital was a profoundly dehumanizing experience.With technological advances, passage of the Social Security Act, and enactment of Medicare and Medicaid, almshouses slowly disappeared and conditions for dying patients improved―though, as Abel argues, the prejudices and approaches of the past are still with us. The problems that plagued nineteenth-century almshouses can be found in many nursing homes today, where residents often receive substandard treatment. A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early 1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.  Free Download The Revd Paul Nash, "Supporting Dying Children and their Families: A Handbook For Christian Ministry" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0281060053 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.7 mb This practical guide offers invaluable and sensitive advice for all who work alongside terminally ill children, their families and families who have been bereaved. Paul Nash helpfully describes the different types of care that are needed depending on the age of the child - from baby to teenager - and on the particular needs of the child's family. He also provides resources to help with remembering and celebrating the life of a child, including rituals that can be used in preparation for death, at the time of death and at funeral or memorial services. |
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