検索キーワード： 死・臨終

当生命走到尽头，等待我们的是轮回、审判，还是与祖先重聚的永恒安宁？这是一场跨越全球宗教史与文化人类学的生死奇旅。无论你正处于对未知的迷茫、面临失去的哀痛，还是在深夜独自思索存在的意义，这段平和而深邃...

当中世纪东欧村庄将对未知疾病与高死亡率的极度恐惧投射于坟墓时，一部交织着暗黑民俗与生死焦虑的文化史便悄然拉开序幕。如果你曾对那些长生不老、嗜血魅惑的暗夜传说感到着迷，或是试图在充满不确定性的现代生活...

避けられない老いの運命と永遠の命を渇望する人類の探求が激突する、生命科学と医学史が織りなす壮大な知のドラマ。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや知的な散歩のひとときに、人間の有限性について深く思索を巡らせる...

世界のあらゆる文化に共通する「死者が帰ってくる物語」をひもとき、私たちが抱える喪失の痛みや死への恐れを優しく包み込む、文化人類学と心理学が交差する思索の旅。夜の静寂の中で知的好奇心を深く刺激し、恐ろ...

避けられない死への不安を穏やかな受容へと昇華させ、哲学や医学の視点から限りある人生の価値を力強く問い直す思索の旅。一人きりで眠れない夜や、ふと立ち止まって自分を見つめ直したい時に、この内省的で温かな...

Explore o maior ossuário do mundo e descubra como uma crise sanitária moldou a fascinante história urbana de Paris. Deixe-se envolver pela atmosfera silenciosa e intrigante do submundo europeu enquanto transforma o seu deslocamento diário em uma viagem no tempo. Muito além de um cenário...

Dementia, heart failure and cancer are now the leading causes of death in industrialised nations, where life expectancy is mostly above 80. A century ago, life expectancy was about 50 and people died mainly from infectious diseases. In the Middle Ages, death was mostly caused by famine, plague...

The Third Man Factor is an extraordinary account of how people at the very edge of death often sense an unseen presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. This incorporeal being offers a feeling of hope, protection, and guidance, and leaves the person convinced he or she is not alone. There is a name for this phenomenon: It’s called the Third Man Factor.

Mortality is the most meditative collection of writing Hitchens has ever produced - at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease, an examination of cancer etiquette and the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate and peerless prose. In this eloquent confrontation with mortality, Hitchens returns a human face to a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm. For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put...

In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician’s knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious, and candid answers to 35 distinctive questions posed by her youngest fans. In her inimitable voice, Doughty details lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn colors during decomposition? And why do hair and nails appear longer after death?

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?...

The unmissable account of how science can help us live better and longer - loved by Bill Bryson, Stephen Fry, Siddhartha Mukherjee and more 'Changed my perspective on the whole living world' - Chris Van Tulleken We are living through an exciting revolution in biology. Giant strides are being...

What to Expect When You're Dead chronicles the ways ancient peoples answered questions such as: How to achieve a good death and afterlife? What's the best way to dispose of a body? Do the dead face a postmortem judgement—and where do they end up? Do the dead have bodies in the afterlife—and can they eat, drink, and have sex? And what can the living do to stay on good terms with the nonliving?

Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis’ honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period...

Bloomsbury presents Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit by Sam Roberts, read by Nathan Osgood "Mordantly wonderful." —CARL HIAASEN "I almost died laughing." —ROZ CHAST "My own departure would not be so bad if only Mr. Roberts could write the obit!" —KAI BIRD From celebrated New York...

Enfrentando el abismo: La reversión de lo imposible. La medicina intensiva es un territorio donde la vida y la muerte coexisten en un equilibrio frágil, un espacio donde cada decisión puede inclinar la balanza entre la supervivencia y el final irreversible. Como experto en ECMO, una máquina...

My father’s heart, and my mother’s, can still break. In this most essential way, they are still themselves. They are still here. To stay together until the end was the deepest wish of Rebecca McClanahan’s elderly, frail parents. So when the two of them could no longer care for themselves...

""Utterly fascinating."" —Bill Bryson ""An incredible journey."" —Siddhartha Mukherjee *WINNER OF THE 2025 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FOR BEST BOOK ON BIOLOGY* *2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER FOR SCIENCE AND COSMOLOGY* A groundbreaking exploration of the science of...

A transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling life Talking about death has been deemed morbid, taboo, or even pathological. But in order to fully embrace life, scientists, psychologists, and spiritual leaders all agree—contemplating death is the key to living...