Death category: 2756 books
by Howard R. Winokuer, PhD, Darcy L. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Praise for the First Edition:
"The book is well-written, interesting, informative, thorough, and useful! As an educator for 43 years, this is the sort of text that I would be pleased to use in my classroom!....I would highly recommend this book! It is an important contribution to the field!"--...
Negotiating a Good Death
Euthanasia in the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, takes a compassionate look at ways that social workers can help dying people and their families. The social workers who work most effectively with terminally ill patients and their families are the ones who best understand the...
My Father The Illusion My Mother The Mirror
the death of a child shatters memories of an obsessive family
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Families are fused by memories. When a child falls over a cliff and dies, his memory becomes so powerful it rearranges past memories. The extreme grief from the death of his only child forces the author to search for a sense of spirituality. That search tears open childhood memories: a childhood juggling...
by Jeff Connerton
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
In 1996 Joshua Michael Connerton was shot and killed by a deputy sheriff in rural Oregon. The shooting was the final blow of a three-year nightmare that started with Josh's introduction to drugs, continued with his downward spiral into heroin addiction, and ended with his death. In January of 2001, as...
Death and Dying Encounter Spirituals
A Pastoral Care Devotional for the Terminally Ill and Bereaved Family Members and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
In this book, Tessie R. Simmons applies spirituals to the death and dying experience of the terminally ill. This offers pastors and other pastoral care professionals an innovative devotional to provide spiritual care to the terminally ill and recovery care to their family. The book also offers the...
Where Did You Go, Little Brother?
A Book for Children Who Have Lost a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Where Did You Go, Little Brother? is Linda Galante’s second published book. Her first book, Still Warmed by Your Love, is a compilation of letters she wrote to her son, Michael, after he died in October 2010. The letters were a way of dealing with her immense grief and became a source of comfort...
Parting the Veil
Reflections On Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
“This book explores a subject that has been disappointingly overlooked by much
of medicine and healthcare. An intelligent and fascinating read that teaches vital lessons through engaging anecdotes and ancient but timeless words of wisdom.”
“Parting the Veil – Reflections on Soul is...
Children's Grief
A Guide For Parents
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
**Loss, grief and death explained for children.**A companion volume to Coming to Grief, this book is a guide to help adults talk to children about loss, grief and death. The author provides practical, helpful information and offers guidelines and strategies when dealing with sensitive situations in...
Soul Love Never Ends
A True Story of The Power of Love and After Death Communication
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2015
Soul Love Transcends Everything November 1st, 2014 began just like many other nights for Katye and her husband Allan. As they sat together holding hands and watching television Katye heard a voice telling her that Allan was going to die and leave her. She continued to hold his hand and heard the...
Life Will Be the Death of Me
. . . and you too!
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler’s year of self-discovery—featuring a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and departed), friends, assistants,...
The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living.
**“An exquisitely...
by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
On Life and Living
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the classic psychological study On Death and Dying and continuing through her many books and her years working with terminally...
by Dale Dreher
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Death by Misadventure is a collection of true and unusual accidental deaths by the Story Consultant to Spike TV's hit show, 1000 Ways to Die. You will find the real details behind some of your favourite televised pieces plus many more items that did not make it to air. There are no urban legends...
by Ernest Becker
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal...