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The Coffin Confessor
- By: Bill Edgar
- Narrated by: Bill Edgar
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest in peace....
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A must read!
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-2021
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A Grief Observed
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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Written after his wife's tragic death, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss....
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A beautiful book
- By JC on 14-09-2017
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Buried
- An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
- By: Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead....
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Changed the way I thought!
- By Nicholas J. Morley on 28-10-2023
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A New Science of the Afterlife
- Space, Time, and the Consciousness Code
- By: Daniel Drasin
- Narrated by: Jez Sands
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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Sharing his more than three decades of research into the afterlife and paranormal phenomena, Daniel Drasin shows that the continuity of human consciousness beyond the physical body and after death constitutes a legitimate area of scientific inquiry and that it can be objectively demonstrated....
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Mortal Monarchs
- 1,000 Years of Royal Deaths
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths to present a humorous deep-dive into the varied—and oft-gruesome—deaths of the king and queens of England and Scotland....
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Interesting and told by the author
- By Marg on 05-11-2023
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Sorry for Your Loss
- By: Kate Marshall
- Narrated by: Catherine Harvey
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each month exploring the people she meets, in life and death, as well as her own growing awareness of life behind the veil....
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Disappointed
- By P Hensley on 05-08-2022
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The Coffin Confessor
- By: Bill Edgar
- Narrated by: Bill Edgar
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest in peace....
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A must read!
- By Anonymous User on 04-07-2021
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A Grief Observed
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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Written after his wife's tragic death, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss....
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A beautiful book
- By JC on 14-09-2017
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Buried
- An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
- By: Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead....
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Changed the way I thought!
- By Nicholas J. Morley on 28-10-2023
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A New Science of the Afterlife
- Space, Time, and the Consciousness Code
- By: Daniel Drasin
- Narrated by: Jez Sands
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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Sharing his more than three decades of research into the afterlife and paranormal phenomena, Daniel Drasin shows that the continuity of human consciousness beyond the physical body and after death constitutes a legitimate area of scientific inquiry and that it can be objectively demonstrated....
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Mortal Monarchs
- 1,000 Years of Royal Deaths
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths to present a humorous deep-dive into the varied—and oft-gruesome—deaths of the king and queens of England and Scotland....
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Interesting and told by the author
- By Marg on 05-11-2023
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Sorry for Your Loss
- By: Kate Marshall
- Narrated by: Catherine Harvey
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each month exploring the people she meets, in life and death, as well as her own growing awareness of life behind the veil....
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Disappointed
- By P Hensley on 05-08-2022
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Glimpsing Heaven
- The Stories and Science of Life after Death
- By: Judy Bachrach
- Narrated by: Susan Boyce
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Glimpsing Heaven reveals both the uncertainty and the surprising joys of life after death....
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Great insight into what’s ahead for all of us
- By Anonymous User on 18-02-2023
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How to Die
- An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
- By: Seneca, James S. Romm - introduction and translation
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
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"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die", wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always", and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again....
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Great Reading, Poor Arguments
- By Nathan on 03-12-2018
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Life Lessons
- Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living
- By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler
- Narrated by: David Kessler, Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Here, in 14 accessible chapters, from the "Lesson of Love" to the "Lesson of Happiness", the authors reveal the truth about our fears....
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One Thousand Days and One Cup of Tea
- A Clinical Psychologist's Experience of Grief
- By: Vanessa Moore
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Vanessa's husband, Paul, dies suddenly and tragically on their regular Sunday morning swim....
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The End of Heaven
- Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age
- By: Sidney Dekker
- Narrated by: Sidney Dekker
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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In this deeply personal audiobook, Sidney Dekker narrates his own experiences with disaster and suffering, and in the process, he examines a largely unexplored dilemma....
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
- By: Anne Case, Angus Deaton
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class....
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Must read
- By Amazon Customer on 19-01-2021
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Die Wise
- A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
- By: Stephen Jenkinson
- Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
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Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well....
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Needed to be said
- By chris on 17-03-2019
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Coma and Near-Death Experience
- The Beautiful, Disturbing, and Dangerous World of the Unconscious
- By: Alan Pearce, Beverley Pearce, E. Wesley Ely
- Narrated by: Danielle Painter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Showing how we can avoid the suffering caused by comas, this book reveals the wide variety of conscious states that can arise during comas, both positive and negative.
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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi - Book Summary
- By: Dean Bokhari, FlashBooks
- Narrated by: Dean Bokhari
- Length: 23 mins
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This is the audiobook summary of the story of Dr. Paul Kalanithi’s short, outstanding life. A profound story about life, death, and living with death, it transcends to become a legacy of living life with meaning and purpose, even beyond the grave....
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The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared
- An Essential Workbook to Help You Reflect Back, Plan Ahead, and Find Peace on Your Journey
- By: Francesca Lynn Arnoldy
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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If you are preparing for the end of life—or simply looking to bring more meaning to the here and now—The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared imparts valuable insight to nurture clarity and your internal strength on your journey....
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Autopsy
- Life in the Trenches with a Forensic Pathologist in Africa
- By: Ryan Blumenthal
- Narrated by: Ettienne Durandt
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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As a medical detective of the modern world, forensic pathologist Ryan Blumenthal’s chief goal is to bring perpetrators to justice. He has performed thousands of autopsies, which have helped bring numerous criminals to book....
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a little self-absorbed, but he gets there
- By Ingrid Brett on 03-01-2024
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Heaven Is Beautiful
- How Dying Taught Me That Death Is Just the Beginning
- By: Peter Baldwin Panagore
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Based on the author's real-life story of dying on a mountain, this enthralling audiobook combines the thrills of a wilderness adventure with the awe inspiring elements of a paranormal novel....
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The Weird and the Eerie
- By: Mark Fisher
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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What exactly are the weird and the eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes....
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Chasing My Cure
- A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action; A Memoir
- By: David Fajgenbaum
- Narrated by: David Fajgenbaum
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure - and became a champion for a new approach to medical research....
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Motivational, call to action. Loved it.
- By Anonymous User on 21-01-2023
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A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
- Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021
- By: Peter Ross
- Narrated by: Peter Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards....
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A beautifully written exploration of sober reality
- By Anonymous User on 15-10-2020
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The Madness of Grief
- A Memoir of Love and Loss
- By: Reverend Richard Coles
- Narrated by: Richard Coles
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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The Reverend Richard Coles's deeply personal account of life after grief will resonate, unforgettably, with anyone who has lost a loved one....
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RIP David.
- By Pete Shields on 13-05-2023
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Recovering from the Loss of a Parent
- By: Katherine Fair Donnelly
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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An extremely well-written, compassionate guide for the millions of people who come face to face with a death in their own families....
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Horrific derailed stories unsuitable for those dealing with death
- By ayelet on 13-04-2018
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Obitchuary
- The Big Hot Book of Death
- By: Spencer Henry, Madison Reyes
- Narrated by: Spencer Henry, Madison Reyes
- Length: 8 hrs
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Based on the popular podcast, Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American culture of death and how we’re remembered....
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Extreme Measures
- Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
- By: Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D.
- Narrated by: Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D.
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care....
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The Sudden Loss Survival Guide
- Seven Essential Practices for Healing Grief
- By: Chelsea Hanson
- Narrated by: Charon Normand-Widmer
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Hanson's The Sudden Loss Survival Guide gathers everything that she learned during her own recovery process and provides an indispensable road map to aid those who've experienced a life-changing loss....
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Ashes to Admin
- Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer
- By: Evie King
- Narrated by: Evie King, Stewart Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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What happens if you die without family or money? The answer to this very three-in-the-morning question is that Evie, or someone like her, will step in and arrange your funeral....
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Nobility in Small Things
- A Surgeon's Path
- By: Craig R. Smith MD
- Narrated by: Braden Wright, Craig R. Smith MD
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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His routine was the same every day for 38 years: up at 4:15, make a turkey-on-rye, drive the deserted Henry Hudson Parkway to the hospital, check the schedule, scrub, cut, reattach, save a life or two, repeat. Until March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic shut hospital surgeries....
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Being Mortal by Atul Gawande - Book Summary
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Dean Bokhari, FlashBooks
- Narrated by: Dean Bokhari
- Length: 30 mins
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This is an audio summary of Being Mortal, a book that explores the inevitable process of aging and ultimately death, and takes a critical look at how the medical profession does not yet have a firm grip on how to handle these processes well....
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How We Die Now
- Intimacy and the Work of Dying
- By: Karla Erickson
- Narrated by: Tracy Hundley
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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As we live longer and die slower and differently than our ancestors, we have come to rely more and more on end-of-life caregivers....
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In My Time of Dying
- How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
- By: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you.”
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There and Back Again
- A Journey of Hope, Love & Forgiveness
- By: Santino Akot
- Narrated by: Dorsey J
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Enduring the death of my parents at an early age, obstacles in all life stages. There and Back Again will inspire many going through struggles with persistence.
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Coma and Near-Death Experience
- The Beautiful, Disturbing, and Dangerous World of the Unconscious
- By: Alan Pearce, Beverley Pearce, E. Wesley Ely
- Narrated by: Danielle Painter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Showing how we can avoid the suffering caused by comas, this book reveals the wide variety of conscious states that can arise during comas, both positive and negative, and how accepting the reality of these experiences is crucial not only to the recovery of coma survivors, but also to the field of consciousness and near-death experience (NDE) studies.
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Life under Pressure
- The Social Roots of Youth Suicide and What to Do About Them
- By: Anna S. Mueller, Seth Abrutyn
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Through stories of survival, resilience, and even rebellion, Mueller and Abrutyn show how social environments can cause suicide and how they can be changed to help kids discover a life worth living. By revealing what it is like to live and die in one community, Life under Pressure offers tangible solutions to one of the twenty-first century's most tragic public health problems.
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Your Last Gift
- Getting Your Affairs in Order
- By: Matthew Hutton
- Narrated by: Matthew Hutton
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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Matthew noticed a number of friends dying without leaving much vital information. In some cases, they had not even made a Will. The family was left to pick up the pieces. Death is challenging enough - and something we will all face - but by having your affairs in order, it will make the process a whole lot easier and kinder.
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And Always One More Time
- A Memoir
- By: Margaret Mandell
- Narrated by: Margaret Mandell
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Every year, more than a million women find themselves grappling with the devastating loss of a life partner—a loss that shatters their present and leaves their future in doubt. At 65, Margaret Mandell faces this heart-wrenching reality when she loses her husband of 45 years to a fast-moving disease. The bed is now half-empty, her body betrays her, and laughter seems elusive.
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In My Time of Dying
- How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
- By: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you.”
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There and Back Again
- A Journey of Hope, Love & Forgiveness
- By: Santino Akot
- Narrated by: Dorsey J
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Enduring the death of my parents at an early age, obstacles in all life stages. There and Back Again will inspire many going through struggles with persistence.
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Coma and Near-Death Experience
- The Beautiful, Disturbing, and Dangerous World of the Unconscious
- By: Alan Pearce, Beverley Pearce, E. Wesley Ely
- Narrated by: Danielle Painter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Showing how we can avoid the suffering caused by comas, this book reveals the wide variety of conscious states that can arise during comas, both positive and negative, and how accepting the reality of these experiences is crucial not only to the recovery of coma survivors, but also to the field of consciousness and near-death experience (NDE) studies.
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Life under Pressure
- The Social Roots of Youth Suicide and What to Do About Them
- By: Anna S. Mueller, Seth Abrutyn
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Through stories of survival, resilience, and even rebellion, Mueller and Abrutyn show how social environments can cause suicide and how they can be changed to help kids discover a life worth living. By revealing what it is like to live and die in one community, Life under Pressure offers tangible solutions to one of the twenty-first century's most tragic public health problems.
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Your Last Gift
- Getting Your Affairs in Order
- By: Matthew Hutton
- Narrated by: Matthew Hutton
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Matthew noticed a number of friends dying without leaving much vital information. In some cases, they had not even made a Will. The family was left to pick up the pieces. Death is challenging enough - and something we will all face - but by having your affairs in order, it will make the process a whole lot easier and kinder.
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And Always One More Time
- A Memoir
- By: Margaret Mandell
- Narrated by: Margaret Mandell
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Every year, more than a million women find themselves grappling with the devastating loss of a life partner—a loss that shatters their present and leaves their future in doubt. At 65, Margaret Mandell faces this heart-wrenching reality when she loses her husband of 45 years to a fast-moving disease. The bed is now half-empty, her body betrays her, and laughter seems elusive.
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Preserved
- A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America
- By: Dean G. Lampros
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Funeral homes are immediately recognizable features of the American landscape, and yet the history of how these spaces emerged remains largely untold. In Preserved, Dean Lampros uses the history of this uniquely American architectural icon to explore the twentieth century's expanding consumer landscape and reveal how buildings can help construct identities.
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Why We Die
- And How We Live: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity
- By: Venki Ramakrishnan
- Narrated by: John Moraitis
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Our fear of death has underpinned our religions, inspired our cultures, and also driven our science. Today we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we age and die, and why some species live longer than others. Immortality, once a faint hope, has never been more within our grasp. Here, Nobel Prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan offers a definitive look at why we die - and whether we can do anything about it.
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After the Worst Day Ever
- What Sick Kids Know About Sustaining Hope in Chronic Illness
- By: Duane R. Bidwell
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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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.
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The Price of Life
- In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides
- By: Jenny Kleeman
- Narrated by: Jenny Kleeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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We say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice. In a world in love with data, it is possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on anything – including life itself. For philanthropists, judges, criminals, healthcare providers and government ministers, it’s just part of the job. In The Price of Life, journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on an adventure to meet some of the people who decide what we're worth.
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The Unclaimed
- Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
- By: Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.
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Cloistered
- My Years as a Nun
- By: Catherine Coldstream
- Narrated by: Catherine Coldstream
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, and a haven after the loss of her father, Catherine Coldstream trusts herself to a group of twenty silent women, believing she is trusting herself to God. As the beauty and mystery of an ancient way of life enfolds her, she surrenders herself wholly to its power, only to find that all is not as it seems behind the Order's closed doors. Cut off from the wider world for decades, the community has managed to evade accountability to any authority beyond itself.