Death category: 2756 books
Counseling Clients Near the End of Life
A Practical Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
"I found this book to be a well-written, sensitively presented, and important resource for those engaged in this critical area of work. Thank you, Dr. Werth, for making such a substantial contribution to this field."--Journal of Palliative Care
"[This book offers] over 20 contributors,...
The Swan in the Evening
Fragments of an Inner Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Rosamond Lehmann’s only autobiographical work recreates the events that shaped her life—from childhood to motherhood to the death of her daughter
Rosamond Lehmann was born during a violent February thunderstorm and lived a sheltered, privileged life with her parents, brother, and sisters....
Braving the Fire
A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Braving the Fire is the first book to provide a road map for the journey of writing honestly about mourning, grief and loss. Created specifically by and for the writer who has experienced illness, loss, or the death of a loved one, Braving the Fire takes the writers' perspective in exploring the challenges...
Death and Taxes
Hydriotaphia and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
• Hydriotaphia premieres at Houston’s Alley Theatre this spring and will also be staged at the Berkeley Rep Theatre • The first new work since Angels in America (CBSD sold over 200,000 total in combined formats) • His last book, a re-telling of A Dybbuk with Joachim Neugrochel, just shipped this Spring. • University of Michigan has published studies of Angels in America. •
The Afterlife Survey
A Rabbi, a CEO, a Dog Walker, and Others on the Universal Question—What Comes Next?
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Is there life after death? It depends on who you ask...It happens to all of us, yet...what happens when we die? Are we reincarnated? Do we go to heaven? Is death the end of everything? Or do our souls pass on to another life? Do we even have souls? These are the questions humans have wrestled with...
by Erica Brown, Anne Smallman, Brian Warr
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care provides a comprehensive overview of good practice in caring for terminally-ill children, young people and their families.
Drawing from extensive personal experiences of working in paediatric palliative care, the author provides...
The Daughter’s Way
Canadian Women’s Paternal Elegies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Introduction
Introduction: Who Could Not Sing: Elegy and its (Female) Discontents
Tanis MacDonald
A daughter’s duty to care for her dying father and properly mourn his death is a commonly assumed cultural and familial obligation. If, as W. David Shaw suggests, we “want elegies...
The Book of Resting Places
A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
"The Book of Resting Places is Mira y Lopez’s account of his travels, from a cemetery to a crematorium to a cryonics company . . . He’s looking for the good death, somewhere, anywhere." —The New Yorker
In the aftermath of his father’s untimely death and his family’s indecision...
Honey the Rock Hound
A Puppy Dies a Family Mourns
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
Honey The Rock Hound is about empowering kids. Once a kid has learned how to work through his or her grief following the death of a pet or loved one they're equipped to help others for the rest of their lives.
A young child will act out different parts of the story while playing. An older child...
Living On The Seabed
A memoir of love, life and survival
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
'The morning after John's death, I remember feeling absolutely enraged that the world had kept turning and the sun had come up as if nothing had happened.'
Lindsay Nicholson and her husband, the Observer journalist John Merritt, were regarded as a golden couple. But their world was turned upside...
Tonio
a requiem memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Winner of the 2012 Libris Literature Prize — the Dutch equivalent of the Booker Prize — and a bestseller in Holland and Germany, this is a mesmerising rendition of grief and love.
On Pentecost 2010, Tonio — the only son of writer Adri van der Heijden — is hit by a car. He dies of his...
Bridges to Heaven
True Stories of Loved Ones on the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Death is not the end. In fact, your loved ones who have passed are watching you, helping you, and healing you-though you may not know it. In this highly emotional book, lifelong intuitive Sue Frederick takes you through the process of connecting with the other side to:
- Use your intuition...
Leaning into Love
A Spiritual Journey through Grief
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
"Magnificent, profoundly moving . . . gives encouragement and solace to all." —Naomi Shihab Nye"I'll find a way to be all right," Elaine promised Vic, her dying husband and best friend of 42 years. Leaving the hospital after he passed, she had no idea how. Her uplifting story of love, hope, determination,...
Gift of Tears
A Practical Approach to Loss and Bereavement in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Gift of Tears includes new research and examples of recent events to help illustrate the effects of loss. Containing a strong practical element, the book guides the reader through the process of contemplating and eventually confronting their own relationship...