Death category: 2756 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Life is characterised by movement, change and development, including transitions, losses and grief. People experiencing loss must learn to accommodate it and, sometimes, relearn new roles. Whether the offender is accommodating general loss (such as transition), the loss of others or facing their own...
Embracing the Teardrops
A Simple, Step-By-Step Guide to Planning a Funeral That Is Dignified, Memorable, and Affordable
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Embracing the Teardrops: A Simple, Step-by-Step Guide to Planning a Funeral That Is Dignified, Memorable, and Affordable guides the reader through one of lifes most difficult experiences: handling the death, final arrangements, and funeral of a loved one. This clear, concise, and compact book provides...
Before I Go
The Essential Guide to Creating a Good End of Life Plan
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A compassionate, practical guide to end-of-life matters, empowering us to clarify and share our wishes and continue to live life to the fullest
• Addresses the emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of end-of-life planning to help you prepare well for your death
• Enables the...
Putting Out the Fire
Nurturing Mind, Body & Spirit in the First Week of Loss and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The phone rings - your breath falls away - and each moment becomes a lifetime. The death of someone significant in your world can rewrite the scope and breadth of who you are. But in this exact moment, you feel terribly emotional and yet totally numb in the same moment. Decisions, questions, family...
Where Did You Go?
A Life-Changing Journey to Connect with Those We’ve Lost
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
“Where Did You Go? offers deep comfort to anyone who has lost a loved one and hopes to explore what frontier science is now demonstrating: while a heart may stop beating, consciousness never dies.”
—Lynne McTaggart, bestselling author of The Field
From Christina Rasmussen, the...
by Karen Kenyon
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2000
Sunshower is the story of a journey through a human experiencesurviving the loss of a love by suicide, and the return of hope. Much has been written about why someone would take his or her life, and about the prevention of suicide, but there is little recorded to throw light on what it is like to...
Juliette's Angel
Death Desire Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Decades after her pregnant mother’s suicide, a naïve Australian runaway finally faces her grief on Everest. Led into the Valley of Death by her stoic Sherpa guide, she questions her mother’s fate, her own sanity, and her angel.
Defined by Death. Driven by Desire. Drawn to Destiny....
by Marie Minnich
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This is the story of my grief recovery after my daughters overdose death. "So perhaps you think this is going to be a tale of how I traveled to some exotic land, how I left everything behind, and how I met fellow travelers on some road to Zanzibar to recover from my grief. Perhaps you think this is...
Murder Stories
Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to ‘American’ ideologies in the retention of capital punishment. The central aim of the study is to illuminate the elusive yet powerful role of ideology in legal discourses....
Passages and Afterworlds
Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies...
by Doreen Pchajek
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
There is no greater tragedy that one could experience, but the death of a child. It is the "Ultimate Tragedy". How do you live after the death of a child? It feels as though your world has come to a screeching halt and you can't understand how the world can go on without your beautiful child....
The Flowering Gum
A Mother's Path from Grief to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
When seventeen-year-old Kieran planned his Easter camping weekend in the bush with his mates, he didnt intend to wind up in the trauma centre of the states largest hospital in a comanor did he intend to slip off to heaven four days later. Devastated and bewildered by her teenage sons sudden death,...
Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving
Discussing Death's Social Impact through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving considers how secondary English language arts teachers and teacher educators can sensitively and thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which large-scale deaths are a significant, if not central, aspect of the texts. As mass...
When Loss Gets Personal
Discussing Death through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
When Loss Gets Personal considers how secondary English language arts teachers and teacher educators can sensitively and thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which death is a significant, if not central, aspect of the texts. Death is something that affects all people young...