Death category: 2756 books
by Jennie Philpott-Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
At just nineteen years old, Simon Philpott fell to his death from a hotel balcony on Sydney's Northern Beaches. He had a life of opportunity and love ahead of him. It was cut short. Jennie lost her 'beautiful boy' that day, a son who had always brought her immense joy and happiness. Her life would...
The Heart of Grief
Death and the Search for Lasting Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000
"What's gone and what's past help," Shakespeare wrote, "should be past grief." But Thomas Attig argues that Shakespeare is wrong--that a grieving survivor need never let go. In The Heart of Grief, Attig gives us an inspiring and profoundly insightful meditation on the meaning of grief, showing how...
Bendita pena
Sanar a través del dolor y la pérdida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Una guía compasiva sobre la experiencia de pérdida como proceso esencial de crecimiento
• Examina el fenómeno de la pérdida como un hondo misterio que compartimos todos los seres humanos
• Ofrece consejos sensatos y prácticos sobre la experiencia del duelo y cómo prepararse...
by Carole Marie Downing
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Singing Beyond Sorrow is Carole Downing's story of finding a way to embrace life after the unexpected and unimaginable death of her husband from cancer. Written in a journal style, the book chronicles her ups and downs, the "firsts" without her husband, the parenting of their six-year-old...
by Camila Perez-Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
I was inspired to create this book for my two-year-old nephew/godson, whose mother passed away shortly after his first birthday. I found there to be a lack of childrens picture books on the topic of death. Through my research, writing, and illustrations, I have created a childrens book that can be...
Suicide Survivorship
The Symbiotic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In 2006, Ida Marie Kaufman lost her son to suicide. She learned firsthand the emotional dynamics of death and intense grief that demanded to be resolved. She gives an honest and transparent account of her grief work that brought her from the darkness of despair to a new perspective of her values and...
by George A. Goens
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
In 2004, George Goens lost his daughter during the birth of his second grandchild. How does one respond to the simultaneous crash of life and death? In The Promise of Living: Loss, Life and Living, Goens wrestles with his conflicting emotions over the convergence of two very disparate events –...
by Rolland G. (Rollie) Riesberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This is the must-read go-to book for what to do: before the death of a dear loved one; after the death of a dear loved one; to avoid the "pain and suffering" of probate. We know that you love your dear family and don't want them to experience the unnecessary pain and suffering and hardship...
Das letzte Hemd hat viele Farben
Für einen lebendigen Umgang mit dem Sterben
Language: German
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Wir leben in einer Kultur, in der Trauer keinen Platz hat. Dabei kann der unterdrückte Schmerz schlimmen Folge für die körperliche und seelische Gesundheit der Hinterbliebenen haben. Dieses Buch erzählt von Menschen, die sich sehr bewusst von ihren Toten verabschiedet und dabei ganz persönliche...
Grieving---The Sacred Art
Hope in the Land of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Develop skills of conscious grieving while reclaiming love that transcends death.
Lisa Irish takes grief out of the too-uncomfortable-to-talk-about closet and invites the reader to participate in the process as a conscious griever. Using creative imagery and current research, she offers the...
Grieving Futures
Surviving the Deaths of My Parents - Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
I was 24 when my mother died, and 26 when my father passed away. Because of that catastrophe, I lost the family home and any stability I ever counted on. It was the greatest disaster of my life, and years later that fact has not changed.
This book is about dealing with the death of a parent...
Expecting Sunshine
A Journey of Grief, Healing, and Pregnancy after Loss, 1st edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
• 1/4 (25%) pregnancies end in miscarriage. The World Health Organization estimated that there are approximately 211 million pregnancies every year, which, with the above statistic on miscarriage, would equal approximately 42.2 million miscarriages/year around the world. • 1/160 pregnancies end...
Full Moon at Noontide
A Daughter's Last Goodbye
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Full Moon at Noontide is the story of Ann Putnam’s mother and father and her father’s identical twin, and how they lived together with their courage and their stumblings, as they made their way into old age and then into death. It’s the story of the journey from one twin’s death to the other,...
One Foot Forward
Stories and Faces of Widows and Widowers
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Very few people in this country are comfortable talking about end-of-life issues, death, and widowhood. When this most transformative of life events eventually happens, how does one continue on past the lingering questions, the new plans, the change in perspective?
One Foot Forward offers hope,...