Revisiting Institutionalism in Sociology: Putting the “Institution” Back in Institutional Analysis

When Breath Becomes Air: The ultimate moving life-and-death story

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

The First Institutional Spheres in Human Societies: Evolution and Adaptations from Foraging to the Threshold of Modernity

The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments – THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Public Executions: From Ancient Rome to the Present Day

A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke

Next Time You Feel Suicidal?: instead, live and celebrate your life in your own way

Confessions of a Funeral Director: How Death Saved My Life

The Burn Journals: A Memoir

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple

Heaven Is Real: Lessons on Earthly Joy--What Happened After 90 Minutes in Heaven

Notes on Grief