Death category: 2756 books
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...
Sharing Life with Another a Memoir of a Social Worker
Poignant End of Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Sharing Life with Another is about the compassion, care and loss experienced when being with others during their end stages of life. The nine stories in this book follow a social worker who finds himself on a journey helping others, including both his parents, as they move toward death. Each story...
Mirrors of Passing
Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. Mirrors of Passing offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships...
by Neena Verma
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Each of us has a Hero’s Journey. We heed calls once in a while that take us far beyond what we know of us. There are trials, tribulations, death, grief and a maze of emotions. The crippling is particularly severe when one loses a child. Those chosen to live in this dark abyss know how agonizing...
Finding Meaning
The Sixth Stage of Grief
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving—journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning.
In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler Ross first identified the stages of dying...
Life With Grief
When a Brother or Sister Dies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The death of a sibling has an uncharted impact on the surviving brothers and sisters, who are often overlooked in the details of funerals, burials, and support for parents during the initial and subsequent grieving periods. Yet sibling grief is profound, with universal components that are minimally addressed...
by Jeannette Fagan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
This book is about the grief of a sudden young death and the madness that I was hurled into as a result. On March 12th 2004 I found my beloved brother dead at his flat and I was overcome with the grief that followed. I am a Registered General Nurse and have dealt with death and suffering within my...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In this regard, the...
Jesus Wept
A Psychospiritual Handbook of Death, Grief, and Bereavement Counseling for Eastern Orthodox Clergy
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
One of the less formal but most important functions of parish ministry entails providing counseling to parishioners in need of sympathetic hearing and understanding advice from someone they personally know and trust. Jesus Wept provides a theological, psychological, and doctrinal foundation of the...
Beyond the Veil to Heaven
Inexplicable Manifestations and Signs from a Woman’S Transition to Heaven While Maintaining Earthly Life Connections
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This is a book about life after death as provided to me through journaling and a series of extraordinary events by my wife, Suzette Delashmet Shockley, after her demise. I believe, and Suz (many times she and I call her Sue) as my wife believes, that if only one person can save themselves from the...
Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
A Handbook For Educators, Healthcare Professionals, And Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Facing Death is a unique handbook for educators, healthcare professionals and counselors. It uses materials from the visual arts, excerpts from poetry, fiction, drama, and examples from popular culture to sensitize the reader to important, universal issues confronting the dying, and those responsible for their care.
by Terry O’Sullivan, Natalia O’Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Terry and Natalia O’Sullivan are the UK’s leading soul rescuers. This book leads the reader into the realms of life after death through stories of encounters with ghosts, spirit beings and ancestors of the spirit world. What happens to us when we die?What is the soul and how does it survive death?How...
by Howard Ball
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In 1900, the average age at which people died in America was 47 years of age; the primary causes of death were tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses. In the 21st century, as a result of better health care and working conditions as well as advances in medical technology, we live much longer—as...
by Sheila Hollins, Lester Sireling
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
When Mum Died takes a gentle, honest and straightforward approach to death in the family. The pictures tell the story of the death of a parent in a simple but moving way. The approach is non-denominational. This book will be helpful to adolescents and adults with intellectual disabilities as well...