Death

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9781861685438

Bereavement and Grief (Issues)

(Replaces: Grief and Loss)

Everyone will experience a bereavement at some point, yet the death of a loved one is always a shock, even after a long illness. This book takes a sensitive look at the issues surrounding grief and loss, covering the feelings experienced after a bereavement, healthy and unhealthy ways to grieve, young people and mourning, funerals and memorials and practical matters which need to be dealt with following a death.

Chapters: 1. Bereavement and Loss; 2. Grief and Young People; 3. Handling the Formalities

Key Facts;  Glossary;  Additional Resources;  Index

9781861684646

Euthanasia (Issues Today Vol 17)

This book looks at the ethical and medical debates surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide. Would legalising euthanasia allow people to die with dignity?
Level: 8.-10. kl./AVU + HG C-F etc.

Chapter One: The Ethical Debate
Euthanasia; Euthanasia and the law; Q & A; Answering the euthanasia critics; Death with dignity; Public opinion on medically assisted dying; What do the public think?; Assisted suicide and disabled people; Palliative care; Activities

Chapter Two: The Medical Debate
Euthanasia: a doctor’s viewpoint; Should we legalise euthanasia?; Morphine kills pain not patients; Call for euthanasia legislation; Physician assisted suicide (PAS) in the United Kingdom; When premature babies should be allowed to die; Treatment for premature babies; Advance decisions, advance statements and living wills; Activities.

Key Facts;  Glossary (web links at the end of most articles)

9781861685971

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (Issues)

*NEW IN SEPTEMBER 2011*

(Replaces Euthanasia and the Right to Die)

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are currently illegal in the UK. However, the high profile media cases of several terminally ill patients wanting to 'die with dignity' have brought the issue of legalising euthanasia firmly back into the public domain. Supporters of the 'right to die' assert that it should be an individual's right as to when and how they die. However, critics argue that a change in legislation may lead to a slippery slope of reduced palliative care and the elderly and vulnerable feeling pressurised into a premature death. Issues: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide looks at the debate surrounding euthanasia, including public opinion, the potential implications of a change in the law and the role of advanced decisions.

Key Facts;  Glossary Index;  Additional Resources (websites etc.);  Index.

9781557046703

Hotel Rwanda (screenplay and essays)

This book, edited by director Terry George, includes essays on the history of the genocide, the complete screenplay written by Keir Pearson & Terry George, and more than 70 historical photos and film stills:
In 1994, as his country descended into madness, Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager of a Belgian-owned luxury hotel in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, used cunning and courage to save 1,268 people from certain death while the rest of the world closed its eyes. Outside about 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsi, were being slaughtered by machete-wielding Hutu, the country's majority. His story inspired Terry George, to make the extraordinary film, Hotel Rwanda. The complete screenplay of the film makes up the main part of this film.
The book also contains several essays:  Terry George and co-screenwriter Keir Pearson's stories of their three-year struggle to gain support and financing; a brief history of Rwanda with details on the actual events portrayed in the movie;  journalist Nicola Graydon's report on joining Paul Rusesabagina when he first returned to Rwanda on the tenth anniversary of the genocide; writer Anne Thompson's personal journal of her visit to the set in Africa; the transcript of the PBS Frontline documentary revealing the afterthoughts of officials who chose not to listen to the cries for help. In addition there is a timeline of the crisis and a further reading and viewing list. (256 pages)
Level: All levels of the gymnasium/Good interdisciplinary possibilities
1846270537

Human Being Died that Night

Forgiving Apartheid’s Chief Killer
When Eugene de Kock, commanding officer of the apartheid death squads, was sentenced to 212 years for crimes against humanity, the black South Africans outside Pretoria's supreme court cheered and danced. The killer who had been nicknamed ‘Prime Evil’ by his own men would stay behind bars until the day he died. But one woman, plagued by awkward questions about the nature of vengeance and forgiveness, decided to look into the monster's heart and found a man worthy of a pardon and freedom. During many hours of conversation, de Kock and Pumla Gobodo-Madikezela, a clinical psychologist from the townships, take a remarkable shared journey into what it means to be human.  (139 pages + Appendix, Notes etc.)
Level: A/B
9781840465679

Life and Death

*NEW IN OCTOBER 2011*
A Collection of Classic Poetry and Prose

Life and death have been the preoccupation of our greatest writers, whether mourning a tragic loss of seizing the moment to live life to its full. Editor: Kate Agnew. (208 pages)
Level: 2nd and 3rd Year of Gymnasium etc.

Contents include: poems by Matthew Arnold, William Cowper, Byron, Donne, Robert Frost and Keats — extracts from Wuthering Heights, The Divine Comedy and The Pilgrim's Progress.

9780330485388

Lovely Bones

Susie Salmon speaks to us from heaven, because she was murdered when she was 14 years old by a man who lived in the same neighbourhood:
“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. [...] My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.” This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven. Susie sees her happy suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from each other. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet... This is a novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting. It is a novel which finds light in even the darkest of places. It takes the stuff of terrible tragedy and manages to transform it into something hopeful. Alice Sebold deals with almost unmentionable subjects with humour and intelligence. Author: Alice Sebold. (256 pages)
Level: from the end of the first year of the Gymnasium
PHE1355

Lovely Bones DVD

30% Discount until the 1st of September!

Based on the novel by Alice Sebold. Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl who was brutally raped and murdered in 1973 by a family neighbour, watches over her family from heaven, trying to find ways to communicate with them how to find her hidden body and solve the ongoing mystery of her death.
  • Directed by: Peter Jackson
  • Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon
  • Running time: 130 minutes
  • Widescreen
  • Subtitle options: English, Danish, Norwegian
1844542378

Monster: My True Story

Aileen Wuornos was executed in Florida, on the 9th of October, 2002 at the age of 46. She was the 10th woman to be sentenced to death in the USA since the death penalty resumed in 1976. Convicted for the murder of six men, in a two month period, Aileen claimed she acted in self defence however the investigation into these claims was poor and she later retracted her statement announcing to the Supreme Court, “I’m one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.” All-too-often female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers — the killings of Aileen Wuornos were the inverse of this. She was a child prostitute, fleeing an abusive childhood at the hands of her grandparents, which led straight to a disastrous adulthood of difficult affairs with both men and women. Her metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences: a stream of dead men. Following a renewed interest in this woman after the film Monster, this is her story, as told to Christopher Berry-Dee, director of Britain’s Criminology Research Center. (238 pages)
Level: B/Library/Depot/Projects on the penal system

0743400526

She Said Yes

The story of Cassie Bernall one of the twelve students murdered during the Columbine High School shootings by two of their schoolmates. The story is told by her mother and tells of a teenager who herself had been full of anger, flirted with Satanism and the idea of killing her parents, but found peace and faith — a faith which she famously affirmed when asked by one of her killers whether she believed in God just before he shot her. While this book in some ways may seem foreign to Danish students, it has lots to say about US high school life, the role of parents and schools in bringing up children, and the meaning of life! (165 pages)
Level: B/(C)/ Students writing papers
9781407105154

Ways to Live Forever

My name is Sam. I am eleven years old. I collect stories and fantastic facts. By the time you read this, I will probably be dead.
Living through the final stages of leukemia, Sam collects stories, questions, lists, and pictures that create a moving portrait of how a boy lives when he knows his time is almost up. Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer. This is a powerful and uplifting novel that will appeal to pupils, through the compelling voice of its narrator. Themes include family, friendship, growing up, death and grief, self-discovery and hope. Accessible to all pupils. Author: Sally Nicholls. (202 pages)
Level: 9-10. kl./C-D/1st year of the Gymnasium (kan læses i uddrag)