After stabbing and killing her boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Mallory, who has no memory of the event, is sent away to a boarding school to escape the gossip and threats, but someone or something is following her.
After Ellie dies of a drug overdose, her brother, her best friend, and her best friend's sister face painful secrets of their own when they try to uncover the truth about Ellie's death.
Kate and Mary must make some adult decisions about the course their lives should take when their father dies suddenly, leaving them with their mother, who has been in a vegetative state since an accident four years earlier.
organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death
Teresi, Dick
2012
Examines how the business of organ harvesting further complicates the process of death declaration and evaluates how death has been determined throughout history.
Having experienced compulsive behavior all her life, Lo's symptoms are getting her into trouble when she witnesses a murder while wandering dangerous quarters of Cleveland, Ohio, collecting things that do not belong to her, obsessing about her brother's death.
Contains studies, surveys, and statistics on issues related to death and dying, covering ethical considerations, seriously ill children, advance directives, health care costs, and other topics.
A collection of twenty-three essays that examines viewpoints on death and dying from around the world, discussing causes of death, end-of-life care, religion, and funeral practices.
After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven.