Death category: 2756 books
by Herman Adèr
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In this novella from Herman Adèr, the autobiographical elements are more obvious than in his previous novellas and stories. Yet, the first-person narrator is nowhere centre stage, the father and the mother remain the main characters all along. However, this detached manner of writing emphasizes how...
Before Forever After
When Conversations About Living Meet Questions About Dying
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
More talking. Less suffering. More living alive with intention and joy. Helena Dolny imagines a world in which people engage in death-in-life conversations as part of everyday living. She believes we’d live better and suffer less if we were to talk about dying more readily. Archbishop Desmond Tutu...
As Good as Goodbyes Get
A Window into Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Joy Nugent left a comfortable life as the wife of a successful orthodontist to follow a calling and vocation. For more than three decades she was a student at the bedside of people who were dying. It is her belief that in order to live a fuller and more meaningful life we need to become more open...
Silent Grief
Living in the Wake of Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
'This book gives insights into the pain and suffering involved when people are grieving for someone who has committed suicide, but it also offers hope without diminishing the significance of the suffering involved. As such, it has a lot to offer, and is therefore to be welcomed.' - Well-Being 'This...
A Real Emotional Girl
A Memoir of Love and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A “profoundly moving” memoir of love, loss, and healing following the death of a young woman’s beloved father (Kirkus Reviews).
A Real Emotional Girl tells the true story of young Tanya, growing up in the wonderland of her family’s all-girl summer camp. At sixteen, this idyllic life is...
At Home with Grief
Continued Bonds with the Deceased
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
What would you say to a deceased loved one if they could come back for one day? What if you can’t just ‘move on’ from grief? *At Home with Grief: Continued Bonds with the Deceased *chronicles Blake Paxton’s autoethnographic study of his continued relationship with his deceased mother....
Healing Your Traumatized Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Someone You Love Dies a Sudden, Violent Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Dealing with grief in a practical manner, this guide offers compassionate tips for those affected by a traumatic death. Included are topics such as coping with family stress, expressing feelings of hurt and anger, dealing with hurtful comments, and exploring feelings of guilt. Each of the 100 suggestions...
A Grief Like No Other
Surviving the Violent Death of Someone You Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
A Grief Like No Other is the book no one wants to ever have to buy; sadly, many people continue to need it. From 9/11 to Cindy Sheehan's son from mass tragedies like the recent London bombings to Law and Order type crimes that make the news only to be replaced by another name. As such, more people...
Staying in Charge
Practical Plans for the End of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Practical, emotional, and spiritual guidance
The time may come when you or a loved one has to face a life-threatening illness; when you realize that you or your loved one may be dying. It's never easy to think about the last years of life, but being prepared can help you have your hopes and...
by Sandy Brosam
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Becoming Bigger Than Our Pain ~ Thru Love & CourageNobody wants to talk about death or illness.Are you emotionally prepared to help others?"Although this book was born from the pain of child loss, it is about grief support from any loss. We grieve differently from a loss of a...
Mortality's Muse
The Fine Art of Dying
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The inevitability of death—that of others and our own—is surely among our greatest anxieties. Mortality’s Muse: The Fine Art of Dying explores how art, mainly literary art, addresses that troubling reality. While religion and philosophy offer important consolations for life’s end, art responds...
Mysteries of Consciousness
In Defense of the Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Man is by nature a philosophical being. Wars are fought over philosophical differences of social-economics, religion, geopolitics and racial arrogance.
Arguably, the greatest philosophical quest of mankind has been the overwhelming desire to know Self; to understand the nature of being. Who...
Death at the Ballpark
More Than 2,000 Game-Related Fatalities of Players, Other Personnel and Spectators in Amateur and Professional Baseball, 1862-2014, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark—rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game’s history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime. In its second edition, this ground-breaking...
The Mourner's Book of Faith
30 Days of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Experiencing the death of a loved one can often lead to questioning or abandoning one’s spirituality, yet in this compassionate book, Dr. Alan Wolfelt explains that the essential need to mourn and question the meaning of life and death is not inconsistent with faith but instead is a reflection of...