Voices of Death

by Edwin S. Shneidman

Book Overview

International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade paperbacks offers books that explore the lives, customs and thoughts of peoples and cultures around the world. This text presents letters and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060140232
• ISBN13: 9780060140236
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Clssification - Literary Human Patrimony!

Voices of death, is probably the best book I've ever read. Dr. Schneidman presents in this book the timeless subject of death offering us a rutter that enables the reader to understand and demystify the death phenomenon.A book that teaches the reader the basic processes of dying with dignity for those who have a terminal illness or have a friend or relative or a known person who is facing diseases like cancer or leukemia.How to face death with dignity, and what everyone should know in order to give the comfort to a dying person.Dr. Schneidman, in his unique beautifully writing style, presents the concepts of grief, self-mourning, pre-mourning, and mourning. Deaths by suicide, execution and malignancy, offering us "maps" that helps us to avoid the reefs of life and to make this trip a safe one.The documents, diaries, letters and suicide notes illustrate the thoughts and give us the real picture of the reality of the human mind when facing death, helping us to understand death as a natural and dignifying part of everyone's passage in this world.If this book could be classified, I would classify it as a Literary Human Patrimony