Death category: 2756 books
Field Notes from Elsewhere
Reflections on Dying and Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected scholar, suddenly fell critically ill. For two days a team of forty doctors, many of whom thought he would not live, fought to save him. Taylor would eventually recover, but only to face a new threat: surgery...
Widow to Widow
How the Bereaved Help One Another
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Widow to Widow shares the experiences of widows who have found comfort and continuity in mutual-help and community support programs. In the second edition of her pioneering text, Phyllis Silverman brings the success of the original widow-to-widow program into the 21st century, preparing a new generation...
So Far Away
A Daughter's Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Christine Hartmann's mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death. Not to be denied there either, two decades in advance Irmgard Hartmann chose the date on which to end her life. And her next step was to tell her daughter all about it....
A Grief Unobserved
Helping parents and carers with early childhood bereavement
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
There is a wonderful book by C S Lewis in which he describes the process of coming to terms with his bereavement - the 'grief observed' which most adults will experience at some time in their lives… this book is about the grief not observed, that of very young children. It is for parents, carers,...
In the Year After Mom Died
August 20, 2006 to August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008
The author deals with grief and reflects on life and change following the death of his mother in 2006. Her treasure old house and the unintended influence of Arthur Miller are followed through this book.
El Virus
Cuando sobreviene la adversidad, sólo nos queda una opción: luchar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Un hombre muere de forma misteriosa; la persona que lo ve agonizar, adquiere, al momento, un nuevo virus sumamente agresivo que ataca su sistema nervioso y le provoca dolores inconcebibles. El enfermo, desesperado y con el anhelo de encontrar una cura, trata de descifrar quien era aquel hombre y qué...
by M.H. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
When you lose the most important person in your life, it's hard to believe you can continue without them. It can take months or even years to deal with the grief and even then it never truly goes away; you only learn to manage it.
In You Can Survive This, M.H. Lee draws upon the personal experience...
by Monna Ellithorpe
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
These are my words, articles and journaling that I have written over the last 4 years and 4 months since his death, trying to learn to cope with my loss, my world falling apart, loss of home, loss of a sense of a belonging and the hopeless feelings I had as if there was a hole in my stomach that would...
by Randy C Watts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Having lost my beloved wife at the end of 2010, I understand the pain that’s experienced when a spouse or partner gets carried away by death. Stricken with an acute form of Leukemia, Malinda became very ill. I never really believed that she’d die; she was too healthy, and we were way too much in...
Whatever It Takes
A Story of Family Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Elaine Lordan is well-known to millions as EastEnders' Lynne Slater. Yet the real-life heartache and loss she came to suffer eclipsed even the rollercoaster troubles of her TV character. After leaving the show, Elaine lost her beloved mother when she took her life under a train. Then later that same...
No Way to Behave at a Funeral
A Tale of Personal Loss through Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This is the story of Noel who lost Maris, his beloved wife of 42 years, to suicide following years of struggling with depression.
The abrupt ending of a life by suicide can be the most catastrophic of events for those left behind. Survivors experience intense pain and massive guilt. Grief banishes...
The End Is Just the Beginning
Lessons in Grieving for African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A nationally revered minister and certified grief specialist shares words of comfort for Africans Americans in mourning.
Every culture has unique ways of coping with the devastating loss of a loved one, but in some households these important traditions have succumbed to the modern emphasis...
To Thee We Do Cry
A Grandmother’S Journey Through Grief
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In what was the most devastating event of their lives, Tom and Pat Monahan lost their nine-year-old grandson, Tommy, in a house fire in December of 2007. This unimaginable tragedy rocked their lives with pain and sorrow beyond description, of a kind and strength they had never dreamed of.
As...
by Darren Heart
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
My Five Stages of Grief by Darren Heart is an emotional chronicle of the author's ten year journey to recovery and healing from the grief and overwhelming sense of loss caused by the tragic deaths of his long term partner, and shortly afterwards, his step son.
The Prologue for this book summarizes...