Death category: 2756 books
Good Grief
A Companion for Every Loss
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Timeless wisdom for all who grieve
For more than fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers, including NFL players and a former first lady, find comfort and rediscover hope after loss. This classic text includes a foreword by Dr. Timothy Johnson, a leading communicator of medical...
Living with Loss, Healing with Hope
A Jewish Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Earl Grollman's Living When a Loved One Has Died has brought comfort to more than 250,000 readers. In Living with Loss, Healing with Hope, Grollman speaks directly to mourners of the Jewish faith. By weaving quotations from Jewish writers and philosophers into his comforting and expert prose, Grollman...
by Phyllis McElwain
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
"In the beginning of the grieving process survival seems an impossible feat. The mourners challenge lies in Facing Tomorrow. After the death of her first husband, author Phyllis McElwain found herself unequipped to deal with grieving. Yet eventually, she managed to cope with it, learning there...
Grief Diaries
Through the Eyes of Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Grief Diaries: Through the Eyes of Men offers a unique glimpse into the different styles of grieving as seen through the eyes of 14 men. From the very moment their lives were changed, real men share their hearts, their intimacy, and their families. The grief journey is followed all the way to where...
A Better Way of Dying
How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
The fail-safe plan for ensuring one's final wishes are respected
Advanced directives and living wills have improved our ability to dictate end-of-life care, but even these cannot guarantee that we will be allowed the dignity of a natural death. Designed by two sisters-one a doctor, one a...
by Simcha Paull Raphael
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Originally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish tradition and mysticism.
As both a scholar and pastoral counselor, Raphael guides the reader through 4,000 years of Jewish thought on the afterlife by investigating...
Secrets: A Story of Addiction, Grief & Healing
A Story of Addiction, Grief & Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Introduction to Secrets: A Story of Addiction, Grief & Healing
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Highly educated individuals with doctorates publish papers full of information, facts, and figures, explaining reasons for addiction. It is often good information extensively researched and properly cited. I do not...
The American Book of Living and Dying
Lessons in Healing Spiritual Pain
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
For most people, the thought of dying or caring for a terminally ill friend or family member raises fears and questions as old as humanity: What is a “good death”? What appropriate preparations should be made? How do we best support our loved ones as life draws to its close? In this nondenominational...
A Mother's Final Gift
How One Woman's Courageous Dying Transformed Her Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
A Mother’s Final Gift is the story of one courageous woman – Louise Viola Swanson Wollenberg – and of her tremendous love of life and family, and her faith and resolve. But it is also the story of her equally courageous family who, in the process of rising to the occasion and carrying out Louise’s...
Surviving the Holidays without You
Navigating Grief During Special Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
A Book Excellence Award Finalist
***"A powerful, life-changing resource."***- Athena Dean-Holt, Radio Personality and Publisher, Redemption Press
Holidays can hurt.
Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, anniversaries, Memorial Day, etc. These times surface our losses like...
Grief's Second Mile
Beyond the First Year
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Most bereavement materials are focused on the first year of the grieving experience. For many people, that provides the support, guidance and wisdom that allows the person to deal with the difficult issues that loss presents. However, for some people, the grief journey takes a longer time or it is delayed...
Lean On Me Gently
Helping the Grieving Child
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
When a death happens in the family, our first thoughts are often of the children. However, we feel at a loss for ways to help children deal with death and with their own feelings. Doug Manning provides answers and assurances for anyone who is concerned about a child in grief. Doug looks at the grieving...
The Orphaned Adult
Understanding And Coping With Grief And Change After The Death Of Our Parents
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
A guide to understanding and coping with grief and all of the disorienting emotions that accompany the death of our parents
Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is in the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether we lose them suddenly or after a...
Caring for Donor Families
Before, During and After
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Integrating vital information on the dynamics of the donation experience and grief education, this revised second edition provides an invaluable resource for hospital and organ procurement caregivers. Going beyond helping professionals understand the challenges of obtaining consent, this guide invites...