Death category: 2756 books
Healing Your Grieving Heart After Stillbirth
100 Practical Ideas for Parents and Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Beloved grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt compassionately explores the common feelings of shock, anger, guilt, and sadness that accompany a stillborn child, offering suggestions for expressing feelings, remembering the child, and healing as a family. Ideas to help each unique person—mother, father,...
Leaning into Sharp Points
Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Whether you’re coping with a loved one who has received a terminal diagnosis, has a long-term illness or disability, or suffers with dementia, caregiving is challenging and crucial. Those who face this responsibility, whether occasionally or 24/7, are brushing up against life’s sharpest point....
by Sarah Ruhl
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
“Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave.”—The Washington Post
“Ruhl’s zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at...
Bolsheviki
A Dead Serious Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Set in a hotel bar in Montreal on Remembrance Day, Bolsheviki has World War I veteran Harry Rosie” Rollins telling young reporter Jerry Nines about his experience in the trenches. Rollins recalls men pissing their pants, losing limbs, and planning a revolt against their officers. The character of...
by Bill Vyers
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
I started writing letters to my daughter the day she died. This was my way of coping with a cruel depression. This is actually two books in one. The second part is the letters from jail. I speak and ask question of my daughter as if she was sitting across the table from me. The letters show how God...
Making an Exit
From the Magnificent to the Macabre---How We Dignify the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Thoughtful, amusing, and provocative, Making an Exit will transform the way you look at life's last passage. Because, as Murray discovers, death is, for many, not an ending but the start of something new.
Author and journalist Sarah Murray never gave much thought to what might ultimately happen...
Friend Grief and AIDS:
Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
It's been likened to a plague, but AIDS never had a chance to be just a virus. The second in a series on grieving the death of a friend, Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends revisits a time when people with AIDS were also targets of bigotry and discrimination. In stories about...
by Jade-Sky
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
A psychic channeler offers comfort to those who have lost a loved one
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Everyone is affected by the death of a loved one at some stage in their lives, and this simple, comforting guide helps those who are grieving find the information and reassurance they seek. Whether it's the...
It's OK That You're Not OK
Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Challenging conventional wisdom on grief, a pioneering therapist offers a new resource for those experiencing loss
When a painful loss or life-shattering event upends your world, here is the first thing to know: there is nothing wrong with grief. “Grief is simply love in its most wild and...
by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In light of how difficult it is just to survive the teenage years, the grieving process can be especially difficult and overwhelming for teenagers. This journal affirms the grieving teen's journey and offers gentle, healing guidance. In order to sort through their confusing feelings and thoughts,...
Poor Widow Me
Moments of feeling & dealing & finding the funny along the way
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Poor Widow Me: Moments of feeling & dealing & finding the funny along the way captures the essence of widowhood with a fresh, smart, often humorous, always searingly honest perspective in a collection of 84 bits about life after a husband dies that will bring a unique sense of grief relief to widows...
Four Funerals and a Wedding
Resilience in a Time of Grief
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
When journalist Jill Smolowe buried her husband, sister, mother, and mother-in-law in the space of seventeen months, she assumed that it was only a matter of time before she fell apart. That’s what all the movies and memoirs say will happen, after all. But when she never “lost it”—and when...
Companioning the Dying
A Soulful Guide for Counselors & Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This guide for counselors and lay caregivers explores the art of caring for the dying and their families. Based on the tenets first articulated by renowned grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, this respectful and gratifying guide to caregiving includes personal accounts that debunk the myth of the "good...
by Sean Davison
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Sean Davison made headlines when he was arrested in New Zealand for matricide. The story that emerged - how he helped his ailing mother to die - is the subject of his affecting book, Before We Say Goodbye. This second book, After We Said Goodbye, takes up the story from there: his arrest, trial and...