Death & Dying

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    • An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
    • By: Alice Roberts
    • Narrated by: Alice Roberts
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Simon Boas
    • Narrated by: Simon Boas
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In his mid-40s, Simon Boas was diagnosed with incurable cancer - it had been caught too late, and spread around his body. But he was determined to die as he had learned to live - optimistically, thinking the best of people, and prioritising what really matters in life.

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    • 1,000 Years of Royal Deaths
    • By: Suzie Edge
    • Narrated by: Suzie Edge
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Kate Marshall
    • Narrated by: Catherine Harvey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 27-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • 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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    • A Memoir of Love and Loss
    • By: Reverend Richard Coles
    • Narrated by: Richard Coles
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 775 ratings
    • 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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    • Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer
    • By: Evie King
    • Narrated by: Evie King, Stewart Lee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • 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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    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
    • Release date: 20-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings
    • 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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    • The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 26-02-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

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    • Undertakers Lift the Lid
    • By: Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzie
    • Narrated by: Reay Kaplan, Gregory St. John, Brian Troxell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who has to make it all go as planned - even if it doesn't....

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    • By: Mark Fisher
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • 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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    • The Science, Psychology and Anthropology Behind the Phenomenon
    • By: Anthony Peake
    • Narrated by: Anthony Peake
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • As the bestselling author of Is There Life After Death? and Cheating the Ferryman, Anthony Peake has studied the phenomena surrounding what happens when we die.

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    • Life in the Trenches with a Forensic Pathologist in Africa
    • By: Ryan Blumenthal
    • Narrated by: Ettienne Durandt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • 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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    • On Pain, Disability, and Doom
    • By: Johanna Hedva
    • Narrated by: Johanna Hedva
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness shows us us that sickness is a fact of life.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Jason Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 223 ratings
    • In his first book, author Jason Smith explores the depravity and desperation required to maintain an opiate addiction so fierce, he finds himself jumping continents....

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    • Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
    • By: Kathryn Harkup
    • Narrated by: Nicky Diss
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters. Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die....

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    • Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief
    • By: Pauline Boss PhD
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this sensitive and lucid account, Pauline Boss explains that, all too often, those confronted with ambiguous loss fluctuate between hope and hopelessness. But the central message of this book is that they can move on....

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    • A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations
    • By: Olivier Le Carrer
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Atlas Obscura says this New York Times best-selling guide to dozens of dangerous, eerie, and infamous locations is the perfect gift for "those who believe the world is still full of mysteries to investigate"....

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    • Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
    • By: Joan Halifax, Ira Byock MD - foreword
    • Narrated by: Claire Slemmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds - as has been demonstrated time and again in Joan Halifax's decades of work....

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    • A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
    • By: Stephen Jenkinson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Jenkinson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • 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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