Death category: 2756 books
Dying with Confidence
A Tibetan Buddhist Guide to Preparing for Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Anyen Rinpoche's wise and reassuring voice guides readers through the Tibetan Buddhist teachings on death and dying, while providing practical tools for end-of-life and estate planning. Dying with Confidence reads like a remarkable how-to guide, laying out in clear and straightforward language the...
by Katherine Fair Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
An extremely well-written, compassionate guide for the millions of people who come face to face with a death in their own families
Losing a parent is a traumatic blow, and the grief can seem unbearable. But you are not alone, and you can get through this. In this first book dedicated to the...
Happy Endings
Uplifting End of Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Happy Endings is a collection of forty stories about people who said good-bye in unique and uplifting ways. This is not to say their narratives—generously shared with the author by families and caregivers—are without pain and sorrow. Yet, the final stage of life holds remarkable possibilities...
The Journey Through Grief and Loss
Helping Yourself and Your Child When Grief Is Shared
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
When adults face a significant loss, they must grapple with their own profound grief, and they are often called upon to nurture and support their grieving children. This is the first book to address this very common dual grieving challenge. As a practicing psychotherapist for twenty-nine years, Robert...
The Blessing of Sorrow
Turning Grief into Healing
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Tackling one of life’s greatest mysteries, Rabbi Ben Kamin examines the diverse ways we mourn the death of a loved one. Drawn from his forty-plus years’ of counseling the bereaved, Kamin uses parables and stories to provide thoughtful insights on how to encounter and endure grief. He further stresses...
Guesswork
A Reckoning With Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
In this “splendid and subtle memoir,” a young woman spends a year in an Italian village reflecting on both beauty and grief (The New York Times Book Review).
Having lost eight friends in ten years, Martha Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband. There, in a rural...
by Carlene Hall-Sylvan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This heartfelt book takes readers on a journey through the chaotic and traumatic existence of a widow, as she tries to cope with the challenges and changes that occur as a result of the death of her husband.----She battles to maintain balance and stability in her home, but the greater battle is in the...
by Alan Hargrave
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
One for Sorrow relates the story of the loss of 21-year-old Tom to cancer, and how his family lived through the aftermath. When Alan began writing the memoir, he believed it would be about his son’s illness and death. He soon realized, however, that he was recording his own painful journey through...
How God Shows Up
A Compelling Story Following the Sudden Death of a Child and a Mother’S Determination to Find and Know Her Daughter’S Eternal Expression of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This deeply revealing and clutching true story portrays a single-parent woman who seeks her own death after experiencing the piercing pain of the sudden loss of her eleven-year-old daughter. She struggles a dual reality of consciousness as she bears the rivalry with her mind and emotions and wavers...
A Mother's Grief
Thirty Years On
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book is an account of how the author dealt with the 'roller-coaster' of emotions she suffered as a result of the death of her daughter. It reflects on the stages of grief which she wrote about in her first book, 'One Step at a Time/Mourning a Child', (ISBN 978-0-9573670-3-6).
Now in, 'A...
by John S. Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
What is man, apart from the things of his life, apart from loving and fighting and dying?
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In his exploration of that fundamental question, John S. Dunne considers the different ways in which man strives throughout his life for immortality.
Growing out of the 1971 Yale University Thomas...
Cancer, Faith, and Unexpected Joy
What My Mother Taught Me About How to Live and How to Die
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A memoir equipping readers to face death from a Christian perspective"I've taught you how to live; now I want to teach you how to die. You don't have to be afraid."When Becky Baudouin’s mother spoke those words to her, they weren't said lightly. Her mother had just been told she had an inoperable tumor...
Grief Diaries
Surviving Loss of a Child
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Part of the 5-star book series, Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss of a Child shares the journeys of mothers seeking to find hope and healing in the aftermath of losing a child. Offering 22 firsthand accounts of the aftermath including facing the holidays, sorting our child's belongings, navigating...
by Shirley Enebrad
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
It has been said that we start the dying process as soon as we are born. Let’s face it, no one gets to live forever. Each day an estimated 155,000 people die. That number creates two to ten times as many grievers.
I am a certified Grief Recovery Specialist with years of experience conducting grief...