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The after death experience: the physics of the non-physical by Ian Wilson. New York: Morrow, [1989], c1987.
Call #: BF1311.F8 W55 1989
The afterlife of the Platonic soul reflections of Platonic psychology in the monotheistic
religions by Maha
Elkaisy-Friemuth and John M. Dillon. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009.
American afterlife: encounters in the customs of mourning by Kate Sweeney. Athens: The University of
Georgia Press, 2014.
The American funeral: a study in guilt, extravagance, and sublimity by LeRoy Bowman. Detroit:
Omnigraphics, 1990. Call #: GT3203 .B6 1990
The American way of death revisited by Jessica Mitford. New York: Vintage Books, 2000, c1963.
Call #: HD9999.U53 U554 2000
Archeology of the funeral mound, Ocmulgee National Monument by Charles H. Fairbanks, Georgia
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003.
The beautiful burial in Roman Egypt: art, identity, and funerary religion by Christina Riggs. Oxford; New York:
Oxford University Press, 2005.
Being dead is no excuse: the official Southern ladies guide to hosting the perfect
funeral by
Gayden Metcalfe. New York: Miramax Books, 2005. Call #: GT3206 2005
Wilson, Christopher S. Beyond Antkabir: the funerary architecture of Atatrk: the construction and
maintenance of national memory. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013.
The book of the dead by E.A. Wallis Budge. S.l: Floating Press, 2008.
The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations by Jacqueline Ilyse Stone and Bryan J. Cuevas.
Kuroda Institute. Series: Studies in East Asian Buddhism, Vol. 20. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press.
2007.
The care of the dead in late antiquity by ric Rebillard; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings and Jeanine
Routier-Pucci. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.
Carried to the wall: American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Kristin Ann Hass. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1998.
Concerning death: a practical guide for the living by Earl A. Grollman. Boston: Beacon Press, 1974.
Call #: GT3203 .G76.
Confessions of a funeral director: how the business of death saved my life by Caleb Wilde.
Call #: BT825.W546 2017
Confronting death: values, institutions, and human mortality by David Wendell Moller.
Call #: HQ1073 .M6 1996
Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sadan Toraja: From Aluk Todolo to New Religions by Michaela Budiman,
Keith Jones, Barbora Stefanova. Prague: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press,
2013.
Corpse: nature, forensics, and the struggle to pinpoint time of death by Jessica Snyder Sachs.
Call #: RA1063.4 .S23 2001
Cultural blending in Korean death rites: new interpretive approaches by Chang-Won Park. London; New York:
Continuum, 2010.
Death and dying by Diane Andrews Henningfeld, editor. Call #: HB1321 .D43 2010
Death and dying, life and living by Charles A. Corr. Pacific Grove, CA, USA: Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., 1997.
Call #: BF789.D4 C67 1997
Death and the adolescent: a resource handbook for bereavement support groups in schools by Grant Baxter
and Wendy Stuart. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Death and the afterlife: a cultural encyclopedia by Richard P. Taylor. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Call #: REF GT3150 .T25 2000
Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism , Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter, editors.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008.
Death and Afterlife in Modern France by Thomas A. Kselman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865-1920 by Michael K. Rosenow. Urbana [Illinois]: University of
Illinois Press, 2015.
The death care industry: African American cemeteries and funeral homes by Roberta Hughes Wright.
Call #: GT3203 .H84 2007
Death: current perspectives, John B. Williamson, Edwin S. Shneidman, editors.
Call #: BF789.D4 D38 1995
Death, dying and bereavement: a Hong Kong Chinese experience , Lai Wan Chan, Cecilia and Amy Yin Man ,
Chow, editors. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006.
Death for beginners: your no-nonsense, money-saving guide to planning for the inevitable by Karen Jones. Call #: HQ1073 .J66 2010
Death: a graveside companion, edited by Joanna Ebenstein; foreword by Will Self; 1,000 macabre illustrations.
London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2017.Call #: HQ1073.D392 2017
Death is a festival: funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth- century Brazil by Joo Jos Reis; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2003.
Death is of vital importance: on life, death and life after death by Elisabeth Kbler-Ross. Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill Press; New York: Distributed
by Talman Co., c1995. Call #: BD444 .K79 1995
The death rituals of rural Greece by Loring M. Danforth. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982. Call #:
GT3251.A2 D36 1982
Death talk: the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide by Margaret A. Somerville. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, c2001. Call
#: R726 .S598 2001
Death: the final stage of growth by Elisabeth Kbler-Ross, ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986, c1975. Call #: BF789.D4
D44 1986.
Death to dust: what happens to dead bodies? by Kenneth V. Iserson.Tucson, AZ: Galen Press, 1993. Call number: QP87. I83 1993
Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record by Eileen M. Murphy. European Association of Archaeologists. Series: Studies in Funerary
Archaeology, volume 2. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books. 2008.
The dominion of the dead by Robert Pogue Harrison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Dying in prison: counseling the terminal inmate by Donalyn A. Gross. Eugene, OR: Hemlock Society, 1991. Call #: BF789.D4 G76 1991
Dying well: peace and possibilities at the end of life by Ira Byock. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998, c1997. Call #: HQ1073 .B96 1998
The Egyptian Book of the Dead translated by E.A. Wallis Budge. The Nazarene Way of Essenic Studies.
Encyclopedia of cremation by Douglas J. Davies and Lewis H. Mates, editors. Aldershot, England; Burlington,
VT: Ashgate, 2005.
Encyclopedia of Death & Dying: Online encyclopedia
Englands Elizabeth an afterlife in fame and fantasy by Michael Dobson. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Eternal Egypt: masterworks of ancient art from the British Museum by Edna R. Russmann. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. Call #:
N5350 .E87 2001
Ethical issues in death and dying by Robert F. Weir, editor. Call #: R726 .E773 1986
A family guide to wills, funerals, and probate: how to protect yourself and your survivors by Theodore E. Hughes. New York: Facts on File/Checkmark Books, 2001. Call #: KF755.Z9
H84 2001
The family in life and in death: The family in ancient Israel: Sociological and archaeological
perspectives , Patricia Dutcher-Walls, editor. New York; London: T & T Clark International, 2009.
For the living and the dead: the funerary laments of Upper Egypt, ancient and modern by Elizabeth Wickett. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010.
The funeral: a chance to touch, a chance to serve, a chance to heal by Doug Manning. Oklahoma City, OK: In-Sight Books, 2001. Call #: BV199.F8 M5 2001
Funeral customs: their origin and development by Bertram S. Puckle. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1990. Call #: GT3150 .P8 1990
The Funeral directors practice management handbook, Howard C. Raether, editor. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1989. Call #:
RA622 .F85 1989
Funeral ethics. Springfield, IL: Funeral Ethics Association, 1999.
Call #: RA622 .F8 1999
Funeral festivals in America: rituals for the living . Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Funeral service: a historical perspective by Howard C. Raether. S.I.: NFDA, 1990. Call #: RA623 .A2 1990
A grief observed by C. S. Lewis. Call #: BV4905.2 .L4 2001
Handbook of death & dying by Clifton D. Bryant, editor in chief. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications,
2003.
Handbook to life in ancient Egypt by A. Rosalie David. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Call number: DT83 .D23
1999
Helping children live with death and loss by Dinah Seibert. Call #: BF723.D3 S563 2003
The history of American funeral directing by Robert Wesley Habenstein. Milwaukee, Bulfin, 1955. Call #: GT3150 b .H3
The human body in death and resurrection. Tobias Nicklas, Friedrich V. Reiterer, and Joseph Verheyden, editors in collaboration
with Heike Braun. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
Human sacrifice in ancient Greece by Dennis D. Hughes. London; New York: Routledge, 1996.
The hunt in ancient Greece by Judith M. Barringer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Inscribing devotion and death: archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North
Africa . Stern, Karen B. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008.
Inscribing sorrow: fourth-century Attic funerary epigrams by Christos C. Tsagalis, Berlin; New York: W. De Gruyter, 2008.
In the presence of grief: helping family members resolve death, dying, and bereavement
issues by Dorothy Stroh Becvar. New York: Guilford Press, c2001. Call #: BF575.G7 B435 2001
International handbook of funeral customs by Kd Matsunami. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Call #: REF GT3150 .M27 1998
Introduction to the study of mortuary customs among the North American Indians: bound
with a further contribution to the study of the mortuary custom by H. C. Yarrow. New York: AMS Press, 1976. Call #: E98.M8 Y22 1976
The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange Between China and Europe by N. Standaert. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.
Is God still at the bedside? The medical, ethical, and pastoral issues of death and
dying by Abigail Rian Evans. Call #: BT825 .E93 2011
Jewish funerary customs, practices and rites in the Second Temple period by Rachel Hachlili. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005.
Journey of souls: case studies of life between lives by Michael Newton. St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn, 1994. Call #: BF1275.D2 N48 1994
The Last Passage: Recovering a Death of Our Own by Donald Heinz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Lay down body: living history in African American cemeteries by Roberta Hughes Wright. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1996. Call #: E185.86 .H84
1996
Learning to say goodbye: dealing with death and dying by Rosalie Peck. Muncie, Ind.: Accelerated Development, c1987. Call #: R726.8 .P42
1987
Life and death in Civil War prisons: the parallel torments of Corporal John Wesley
Minnich, C.S.A. and Sergeant Warren Lee Goss, U.S.A. by J. Michael Martinez. Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, c2004. Call #: E615
.M37 2004
Living with grief: children, adolescents, and loss edited by Kenneth J. Doka; foreword by Jack D. Gordon. Washington, DC: Hospice Foundation
of America; Philadelphia, Pa.: Brunner/Mazel, c2000. Call #: BF575.G7 L785 2000
Living with the Dead: Ancestor Worship and Mortuary Ritual in Ancient Egypt . Havertown: Oxbow Books, 2012.
The loss that is forever: the lifelong impact of the early death of a mother or father by Maxine Harris. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin, c1995. Call #: BF723.M35 H37 1995
Lucky to have me as their funeral director!: interpersonal keys to successful funeral
practice by Stephen R. Rocco. Dedham, Mass.: Dedham Pub., 2001. Call #: RA622 .F82
Macmillan encyclopedia of death and dying by Robert Kastenbaum, editor in chief. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, c2003.
Call #: REF HQ1073 .M33 2003
Management of Dead Bodies After Disasters: A Field Manual for First Responders . Stephen Cordner, Rudi Coninx,Hyo-Jeong Kim, Dana van Alphen, and Morris Tidball-Binz,
editors. Second (revised) Edition. Washington, D.C.: PAHO, 2016.
The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan by Karen M. Gerhart. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press,
2009.
Memory, mourning, landscape , Elizabeth Anderson, editor. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2010.
The mission: inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Matthew Naythons. Wall, NJ: FCSWorldwide, 2005. Call #: BX8695 .S6
Mississippian mortuary practices: beyond hierarchy and the representationist perspective , Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., editors. Gainesville: University
Press of Florida, 2010.
Mortality in traditional Chinese thought , Amy Olberding and Philip J. Ivanhoe, editors. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 2011.
Mortician diaries: the dead-honest truth from a life spent with death by June Knights Nadle. Novato, CA: New World Library, c2006. Call #: RA662 .N33 2006
The mummy: funereal rites & customs in ancient Egypt by E.A. Wallis Budge. London: Senate, 1995. Call #: DT61 .B916 1995
The national yellow book of funeral directors . Youngstown, OH: Nomis Publications.
Call #: HD9999.U53 U555
The official funeral service desk reference: 2005 . Wall, NJ: FCS Worldwide, 2005.
Call #: REF RA622.A7 O34 2005
On death and dying by Elisabeth Kbler-Ross. New York: Collier Books; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada;
New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993. Call #: BF789.D4 K8 1993
On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death by Robert Kastenbaum. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.
On the meaning of death: essays on mortuary rituals and eschatological beliefs, S. Cederroth, C. Corlin, and J. Lindstrm, eds. Uppsala: Ubsaliensis Academiae; Stockholm,
Sweden: Distributed by Almqvist & WiksellInternational, 1988. Call #: GT3150 .O5 1988
Order of Christian funerals. New York: Catholic Book Pub, 1989. Call #: BX2035.6 .F8523 1989
Pardon my hearse: a colorful portrait of where the funeral and entertainment industries
met in Hollywood by Allan Abbott. Fresno, CA: Craven Street Books, [2015]. Call #: HD9999.U53 U513
2015
Parting ways: new rituals and celebrations of lifes passing by Denise Carson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
Pet loss and human bereavement, edited by William J. Kay [et al.]. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1984. Call
#: SF411.47 .P48 1984
Profits of death: an insider exposes the death care industries by Darryl J. Roberts. Chandler, AZ: Five Star Publications, 1997. Call #: HD9999.U53
U572 1997
The psychology of death by Robert Kastenbaum. New York: Springer Pub. Co., c1992.
Call #: BF789.D4 K372 1992
Regional approaches to mortuary analysis Lane Anderson Beck, ed. New York: Plenum Press, 1995. Call #: CC77.B8 R44 1995
Rest in peace: a cultural history of death and the funeral home in twentieth-century
America by Gary Laderman. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Call #: HD9999.U53
U543 2003
Restless dead: encounters between the living and the dead in ancient Greece by Sarah Iles Johnston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
The sacred remains: American attitudes toward death, 1799-1883 by Gary Laderman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Call #: BR525 .L25 1996
Saying goodbye your way: planning or buying a funeral or cremation for yourself or
someone you love by John F. Llewellyn. Glendale, CA: Tropico Press, c2004. Call #: GT3150 .L55 2004
Saying Kaddish: how to comfort the dying, bury the dead, and mourn as a Jew by Anita Diamant. New York: Schocken Books, 1998. Call #: BM712 .D53 1998
Spirits of the dead: Roman funerary commemoration in Western Europe by Maureen Carroll. Oxford; New York: University Press, 2006.
Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers y Mary Roach. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 2004, c2003. Call #: R853.H8 R635
2004
Suicide across the life span: premature exits by Judith Stillion. Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Francis, 1996. Call #: HV6545 .S797
1996
Suicidal Honor: General Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki by Doris G. Bargen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.
Talking about death: a dialogue between parent and child by Earl A. Grollman. Boston: Beacon Press, c1990. Call #: BF723.D3 G72 1990
Thanatochemistry: a survey of general, organic, and biochemistry for funeral service
professionals by James M. Dorn and Barbara M. Hopkins. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall,
1998. Call #: QD31.2 .D654 1998
The Theatre of Death: The Ritual Management of Royal Funerals in Renaissance England,
1570-1625 by Jennifer Woodward. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 1997.
The theology of death by Douglas J. Davies, London; New York: T & T Clark, 2008.
To comfort and to honor: a guide to personalizing rituals for the passing of a loved
one by Jeanne Daly McIntee. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1998. Call #: GT3203 .M35 1998
To live until we say good-bye by Elisabeth Kbler-Ross. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, c1978. Call #: BF789.D4
K83.
Traversing the minefield: best practice: reducing risk in funeral- cremation service by Michael Kubasak and William M. Lamers, Jr. Pasadena, CA: LMG Pub., 2007.Call #:
344.73045
Understanding Childrens Experiences of Parental Bereavement by John Holland. London: Jessica Kingsley
Publishers, 2001.
Understanding dying, death, and bereavement by Michael R. Leming. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College 2002. Publishers, Call #:
HQ1073.5.U6 L45 2002
Undertaking ethics: the ethics case program. Springfield, IL: The Association, 1995.
Call #: HD9999.U53 U585 1995
The Victorian book of the dead by Chris Woodyard. Dayton, OH: Kestrel Publications, 2014. Call #: GT3243.V53 2014
Vigilant memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the unjust death by Clifton Spargo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Venices most loyal city: civic identity in Renaissance Brescia by Stephen D. Bowd. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Voices of the dying; reflections of the living Donalyn A. Gross. Longmeadow, Ma: Cinnabar, 1994. Call #: BF789.D45 G76 1994
Water bugs and dragonflies: explaining death to young children by Doris Stickney. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1997. Call #: HQ1073.3 .S75 1997
We will dance our truth: Yaqui history in Yoeme performances by David Delgado Shorter. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Western attitudes toward death: from the Middle Ages to the present by Philippe Aris. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press [1974] Call #: BD444
.A6713
When death occurs: a practical consumers guide: funerals, memorials, burial, cremation,
body donation by John M. Curran, MI: Consumer Advocate Press, 2003. Call #: GT3203 .R45 2002
Winning ways: the funeral professions guide to human relations by Todd W. Van Beck. Stamford, CT: Appleton & Lange, 1999. Call #: RA622 .V36 1998
Women in the classical world: image and text by Elaine Fantham, et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
The World of Obituaries: Gender Across Cultures and Over Time by Mushira Eid. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002.