Death category: 2756 books
by Sue Hendler, Christine Overall
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
As a university professor, an environmentalist, and a world-traveller, Sue Hendler was thriving. Then she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. She had to give up her job, make hard decisions about medical treatment, and drastically shorten her vision of the future. As her cancer spread, she...
Grief Diaries
Surviving Loss of a Sibling
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Christine lost her 38-year-old sister to suicide. Shannon lost her 21-year-old brother to a drunk driver. Brooke lost her 31-year-old brother to homicide.
Part of the award-winning Grief Diaries series, Surviving Loss of a Sibling shares the poignant stories of 13 people who have lost a brother...
The Wounded Self
Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to write...
by R. J. R. Rockwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
This is a novella about spirituality and death through the eyes of a child. From the age of three Dillon finds that by sitting in his bear chair he can float out of his body. When out of body, Dillon is invisible, and can pass through solid objects and communicate with spirits. When he was eight,...
by Kyle Boelte
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Amidst the fog of San Francisco, a debut author reflects on his brother’s life and suicide in this “painful, intimate, and exquisitely written” memoir (Peter Orner).
In San Francisco, the summer fog blows inland off the ocean and the landscape changes from moment to moment. Amidst this ever-changing...
Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan
A Biopsychosocial Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
"[Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan] represents a significant advance because it looks at the issues from a bio-psychosocial perspective. To a social worker who has worked mainly in a medical and nursing environment, this is a great step forward."
--Bereavement Care
"[Offers]...
Letter to My Father
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When his father died, Tom found personal documents that revealed facets of his father’s life of which Tom had known nothing. Too traumatized to grieve properly,...
Breaking Sad
What to Say After Loss, What Not to Say, and When to Just Show Up
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Real stories and real feedback on what should be said, what should be kept to yourself, and what can be done when trying to support someone you care about as they navigate loss. Breaking Sad helps us start conversations through its pages of personal stories and suggestions from everyday survivors—bringing...
by Cassie Miller, Brynn Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Unaware that one moment, one split-second can change their lives irrevocably, friends, Brynn and Cassie, find themselves on a journey that will test all that they know.
On September 16th, 2014, as Brynn and Cassie prepared to send their sons to preschool, what should have been a day of excitement...
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
A Living Will by Helen Epstein (8,800 words)
A personal account of a mother’s sudden and unexpected hospitalization, and how her adult children negotiated end-of-life decisions.
This essay appeared as a New York Magazine cover story on November 27, 1989 as "A Death in the Family 1989."
Speaking of Dying
A Practical Guide to Using Counselling Skills in Palliative Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying patient, and an engaging, empathic bond between two people.
Louis Heyse-Moore draws on his wealth...
Widows' Words
Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.
Some were widowed young, while others were...
Memories of the Heart
A Story of Love, Loss, and Learning to Live Again
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Anyone who has lived life long enough already knows that with tremendous love also comes tremendous loss. Often, we are faced with a life limiting illness before the loss, leaving us time to anticipate our next move. Other times, the loss comes suddenly, leaving us in shock and unsure where to turn...
by James Amber
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2018
Thank you for your interest in this booklet. The "...Foundational Principles" series, is a series of booklets designed to help you get the basics or foundations about a subject. Time is one of our most precious resources and as such it does not comeback, for that reason the Amber siblings...