{"id":5301,"count":10,"description":"Here we have our book recommendations on death and dying. Professor Dame Sue Black, one of the world\u2019s leading anatomists and forensic anthropologists (the science of understanding the life of an individual by studying his\/her mortal remains) chooses her <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/death-sue-black\/\">best books on death<\/a>. Her choices are diverse, from <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/death-dissection-and-the-destitute-the-politics-of-the-corpse-in-pre-victorian-britain\/\"><em>Death, Dissection and the Destitute: The Politics of the Corpse in Pre-Victorian Britain<\/em> by Ruth Richardson<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/waiting-for-the-last-bus-reflections-on-life-and-death\/\"><em>Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death<\/em> by Richard Holloway<\/a>, the former Anglican bishop of Edinburgh.\r\n\r\nPsychologist Sheldon Solomon chooses his <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/sheldon-solomon-on-fear-of-death\/\">best books on the fear of death<\/a>. He describes <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/denial-death-by-ernest-becker\/\"><em>the Denial of Death <\/em>by Ernest Becker<\/a> as \u201cone of the most profound and provocative books of the 20th century\u201d.\r\n\r\nStephen Cave, the author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/immortality-by-stephen-cave\/\">Immortality<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0recommends his best books on immortality, including <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/epic-gilgamesh-by-anonymous\/\"><em>Gilgamesh<\/em><\/a>, the ancient Mesopotamian epic, whose hero vainly seeks for immortality, and <em>Mortal Coil: a Short History of Living Longer<\/em> by David Boyd Haycock. Turning to dying, Clive Stafford Smith recommends his best books on capital punishment, including <em>To Kill a Mockingbird <\/em>by Harper Lee and <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/execution-protocol-by-stephen-trombley\/\"><em>The Execution Protocol: Inside America\u2019s Capital Punishment Industry <\/em>by Stephen Trombley<\/a>. The writer Johanna Reiss talks about <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/suicide-johanna-reiss\/\">suicide<\/a>, while professor Sophie Ratcliffe discusses the nature of <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/grief-sophie-ratcliffe\/\">grief<\/a>, how it fits into human life and literature.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/health-and-lifestyle\/death\/","name":"Death","slug":"death","taxonomy":"category","parent":11188,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11188"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5301"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5301"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}