Death category: 2756 books
The Essential Guide to Life After Bereavement
Beyond Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The period following the death of a loved one can be a time of great turmoil. This sensitive book acts as a supportive road map through the initial period of loss, and through the weeks and months that follow.
The authors address not only the emotional and spiritual aspects of bereavement,...
When Parents Die
Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for adults too, a parent's death can be a tremendous blow.
When Parents Die speaks to bereaved children...
Die Wise
A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places...
Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences
A Handbook for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
*Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards* A near-death experience (NDE) is a phenomenon whereby powerful physical and emotional sensations and visions are experienced by someone who is either close to death or has been declared clinically dead....
Dealing with Doctors, Denial, and Death
A Guide to Living Well with Serious Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Often when death is the inevitable and impending outcome of a health diagnosis, doctors are reluctant to discuss alternatives to treatment, feeding into a culture of denial that can result in expensive, ineffective, and unnecessary over treatment that may or may not extend life but almost always damages...
Passed On
African American Mourning Stories, A Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2002
Passed On is a portrait of death and dying in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African American mourning and burial practices, Karla FC Holloway finds that ways of dying are just as much a part...
The Journey Into Spirit
A Pagan's Perspective on Death, Dying & Bereavement
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
The Journey Into Spirit is a guide to death and the mysterious world beyond. Join renowned Druid priest Kristoffer Hughes as he explores the three realms of existence—the realm of necessity, the realm of spirit, and the realm of infinity—and illuminates the essence of grief, mourning, and spiritual...
Giving up the Ghost
Let Go of Grief and Restore Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
LOVE NEVER DIES! OUR LOST LOVED ONES ARE STILL WITH US IN SPIRIT! Where do our loved ones go after death? What happens to them? This book explores the connection between the spiritual world (Heaven) and the physical world (Earth). This book is written by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Medium and...
Change Maker
How My Brother’s Death Woke Up My Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
• Tens of millions of people are searching for reassuring true-life stories about eternal life. • 37 million-plus members of the American Association of Retired People (AARP) focus on issues of life, death, and spirituality as they approach their own time of transition. • 20%–40% of the US...
by Dr. Peter Hill
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
In common with the rest of Britain's counties, Northamptonshire has a rich heritage of social history in its churches and churchyards. Dr Peter Hill's research into burial sites can seem somewhat morbid upon first glance, but he discovers a wealth of intriguing information about the lives,customs...
Grief Diaries
Surviving Loss of an Infant
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Dianna lost her newborn daughter to trisomy 18. Linda lost her 8-week-old son to SIDS. Melissa’s 13-month-old son died from sepsis.
Part of the award-winning Grief Diaries series, **Surviving Loss of an Infant** shares the poignant stories of mothers who have all lost a baby. Covering tender...
The Last Time I Saw You Alive
Lessons from Last Moments with Family and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Do you remember the last time you saw a certain family member or special friend alive? It might not be an experience you want to relive, but it can tell you some important things about yourself and others. Author Renwick Jones does remember. He first encountered death when his paternal grandfather...
The Puritan Way of Death
A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1977
The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and Europea-among them, Gordon Wood, Philippe Ariès,...
Dying, Death and Grief
Working with Adult Bereavement
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
"This book's strengths are [Brenda Mallon's] clinical wisdom, experience and insights, and the practical, constructive, down-to-earth way in which she conveys these to her readers. This will appeal to many who are searching for guidance in the difficult task of providing support for the bereaved"...