Death category: 2756 books
Angelic Attendants
What Really Happens As We Transition From This Life Into The Next
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
For Julie Ryan is an inventor, entrepreneur, medical intuitive and psychic whose learned skills have helped many families understand the glorious side of the dying process. It This process involves angels, multitudes of deceased family and friends, the spirits of deceased pets, and countless serendipitous...
by Tom Golden
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The Way Men Heal is a concise book that offers insight into the masculine side of healing. Have you ever wondered why men and women seem to heal differently? If so, this is a book for you. It explains how and why men and some women heal in an active mode rather than an interactive one. It offers plenty...
Healing Your Holiday Grief
100 Practical Ideas for Blending Mourning and Celebration During the Holiday Season
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
With compassionate insight, this handbook helps those in mourning through what can be the hardest time of year—the holiday season. Mourners will better understand their complex emotions after reading about such topics as honoring thoughts and feelings, creating new traditions, finding ways to de-stress,...
Legal Executions in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia
A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
In the century following the Civil War, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia legally executed hundreds of men and women convicted of capital crimes. Based on exhaustive research of court records, newspapers death certificates and even gravestones, this book provides...
by Marc le Penn
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Marc was 36 years old when he lost his long-term partner. Overnight, he found himself in the middle of his worst nightmare: alone and lonely with his heart ripped to pieces, and his life not worth living.
In this eloquent, frank and honest grief memoir, Marc takes his readers on...
A New Mourning
Discovering the Gifts in Grief
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Would you try to change a flat tire with your bare hands? Of course not. You would access the tool kit in the trunk of your car. So when grief flattens you, why not reach for a tool kit? Grief does not have to be constant. Although that may be how you feel in this moment, discover four unique, simple...
It's Your Funeral
This book will save you money on funeral arranging
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The oldest game in the world? Well, some funeral directors out there definitely see it as a licence to print money.
Industry insider, John Parry, has a decade of experience and has witnessed many vulnerable bereaved families exploited by funeral arrangers determined to reach their revenue targets....
Parting
A Handbook for Spiritual Care Near the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
At times we may be called to be companions on a journey we would rather not take--the journey of a loved one toward the end of life. For those who choose to serve as close companions of terminally ill relatives or friends, Parting offers the collective wisdom of people from many cultures and faith...
by Lisa Jankowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The loss of a child is the most devastating event a parent can face. In this moving memoir Liza Jankowski, the mother of four children, two boys and two still born girls, shares her experience with stillbirth and the effects that go far beyond what people could ever imagine. Dreams are destroyed....
Funeral Culture
AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa’s last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people...
by Mandell, Sherri
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Sherri Mandell, an American immigrant to Israel, offers this hauntingly beautiful memoir of a year of grief following the horrific murder of her 13-year-old son, Koby, found stoned to death along with a friend by Palestinian terrorists near his Tekoa home in 2001. This profoundly moving prose-poem...
Resting Places
The Burial Sites of Over 7,000 Famous Persons
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2001
This massive and broad-ranging reference work alphabetically lists over 7,000 well-known people from film, theater, radio and television as well as all varieties of music, sports, history, government, crime and popular culture. Each entry provides birth and death dates, a concise summary of the subject's...
The Aftermath of Battle
The Burial of the Civil War Dead
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
The clash of armies in the American Civil War left hundreds of thousands of men dead, wounded, or permanently damaged. Skirmishes and battles could result in casualty numbers as low as one or two and as high as tens of thousands. The carnage of the battlefield left a lasting impression on those who...
by F.L. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The death of a loved one affects the very fiber that makes us who we are in ways we never could have imagined or anticipated. We are transported to a desert-like wilderness where we must negotiate our way through a new, uncertain and unpredictable terrain. As we move along, we seek out oases that...