Death category: 2756 books
We Don't Die
A Skeptic's Discovery of Life After Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
If You Realized That You Could Never Die, How Would You Live Your Life? Every second, 4 human beings are born and every 1.8 seconds, one dies. As natural as death is, dying is the most common fear that we all share. With every loss comes the most painful emotion called grief, which can cause break...
by Alexandra Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived
Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up...
The Choice
Finding Life in the Face of Adversity -- Six Stories from a Therapist's Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Now available in paperback -- Jan Hatanaka's powerful, life-enhancing book on how six people, encountering significant adversity, made a conscious choice to work to build a life of meaning.
Using six stories from her casebook as a therapist, Hatanaka explores and illustrates the complex relationships...
In Lieu of Flowers
A Conversation for the Living
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Grieving is as natural as breathing, for if we have lived and loved, surely we will grieve. . . .”
Nancy Cobb meets death in the most vital of places–in the lives of everyday people–and in doing so has found a way to infuse this darkest subject with light. Her candor and refreshing...
by Goldmine Reads
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.
Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed...
The Way We Die Now
The View from Medicine's Front Line
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors, and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope....
Holding Space
On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A look at the spiritual, emotional, and philosophical implications of end-of-life care by an elegant and literary writer who is a hospital chaplain.
As a hospital chaplain, Amy Wright Glenn has been present with those suffering from suicide, trauma, disease, and unforeseen accidents and has...
The Suicide Index
Putting My Father's Death in Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
National Book Award Finalist: “Wickersham has journeyed into the dark underworld inside her father and herself and emerged with a powerful, gripping story.” —The Boston Globe
One winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never...
Letters from Motherless Daughters
Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
After a mother's death, a daughter embarks on a personal journey of grief and healing. Hope Edelman shared her journey in Motherless Daughters; afterward, she received letters from motherless women all over the world who felt compelled to share their own stories of mother loss. Comforted by the shared...
When Grief Calls Forth the Healing
A Memoir of Losing a Twin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In 1961, Michael Rockefeller, son of then-governor of New York State Nelson A. Rockefeller, mysteriously disappeared off the remote coast of southern New Guinea. Amid the glare of international public interest, the governor, along with his daughter Mary, Michael’s twin, set off on a futile search,...
by Carolyn Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Release pain and feel joy. Learn twelve effective therapeutic healing techniques to heal your grief from the loss or death of a loved one.
Learn the techniques I teach my therapy clients to heal from the pain, anger, and sadness of death and loss to regain a sense of peace and happiness in...
Dying
A Transition
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This book introduces a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment and radical reconsideration of our transition to death. Drawing on decades of work with terminally ill cancer patients and a trove of research on near-death experiences,...
Memories of My Sister
Dealing with Sudden Death
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2001
A journey from anguish to peaceachieve peace and discover the help you need on your path towards recovery after the death of a loved one.
When someone we love dies, our grieving takes many forms. Sprinkled within those layers of grief lie our raw emotions. Learn how to get in touch with those...
by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
In this compassionate and moving guide to communicating with the terminally ill, Dr. Elisabeth Küebler-Ross, the world's foremost expert on death and dying, shares her tools for understanding how the dying convey their innermost knowledge and needs. Expanding on the workshops that have made her famous...