Death category: 2756 books
Saying Goodbye
A Guide to Coping with a Loved One's Terminal Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
When someone you love receives a terminal diagnosis, the whole family is suddenly faced with a prolonged crisis. While medical advances have given us the gift of extending life, meaning that a loved one could survive months or even years before dying, it has also changed the way we grieve. Published...
by David B Biebel, Judy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
In this powerful book, Biebel leaves behind the all-too-familiar platitudes and instead offers the unvarnished truth about the pain of illness, death, divorce, financial ruin, and more. With keen insight and a Christian outlook, Biebel puts God right by your side to help you sort through your hurt...
by Slocum, Joshua, Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
On Grief and Dying
Understanding the Soul's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Drawing from the wisdom of various sources-the contemporary Goddess movement, powerful psychic techniques, and the ancient traditions of Buddhism and Greek mythology-healer and writer Diane Stein leads the reader on a remarkable journey toward loving acceptance, affirmation, and hope. ON GRIEF AND...
by Lauren Van Scoy, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
As a doctor at the end of a 24-hour shift in the intensive care unit, it’s usually easy for me to fall asleep. Exhaustion hits me like a rock and it doesn’t matter that the morning sun is pouring into my bedroom. After so many long hours of fighting for life and pushing back death, when I finally...
Bereavement Care for Childbearing Women and their Families
An Interactive Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
For many bereaved parents, the care provided by health professionals at birth – from midwives to antenatal teachers – has a crucial effect on their response to a loss or death. This interactive workbook is clearly applied to practice and has been designed to help practitioners deliver effective...
Bereavement Narratives
Continuing bonds in the twenty-first century
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Bereavement is often treated as a psychological condition of the individual with both healthy and pathological forms. However, this empirically-grounded study argues that this is not always the best or only way to help the bereaved. In a radical departure, it emphasises normality and social and cultural...
by Donald G. Kyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores
* the origins and historical...
Invisible Population
The Place of the Dead in East-Asian Megacities
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
The issue of population ageing in East-Asia has been extensively studied but we remain in the dark as to the fate of the region’s growing dead population, particularly in the largest metropolitan areas where there is bitter competition for space among the various human activities. From private cemetery...
To Die Well
Your Right to Comfort, Calm, and Choice in the Last Days of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Knowing our rights to refuse treatment, and ways to bring death earlier if pain or distress cannot be alleviated, will spare us the frightening helplessness that can rob our last days of meaning and personal connection. Drs. Wanzer and Glenmullen clarify what patients should insist of their doctors,...
Memories Too Few
A Letter to Parents about Pregnancy Loss
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Few people understand the true depths of pregnancy loss. Many treat miscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death as minor grief. Kathy Burns has written a personal message to parents who have experienced the death of a child during pregnancy.
From Particles and Disputations: Writings for Jeff
A Book of Hours
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
"From Particles and Disputations" is a collection of playful, romantic, candid and personal creative writings that I wrote for my partner Jeff. From our meeting in 1982 until his death from AIDS in 1994 I marked each birthday, anniversary, holiday, and other special or difficult occasion we shared with...
Disaster Falls
A Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A haunting chronicle of what endures when the world we know is swept away
On a day like any other, on a rafting trip down Utah’s Green River, Stéphane Gerson’s eight-year-old son, Owen, drowned in a spot known as Disaster Falls. That night, as darkness fell, Stéphane huddled in a tent...
How to Survive the Loss of a Child
Filling the Emptiness and Rebuilding Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
"Thank you, Catherine Sanders, for giving us a book that few others could have written. Every page speaks both the depth of your compassion and the breadth of your knowledge. This book will be a wise companion on the difficult journey from loss to recovery."
— Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D.,...