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Morbid Curiosity

The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous

by Alan W. Petrucelli
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009

"It's shocking and sinful, and I couldn't put it down!" -Joan Rivers The strange, startling, and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths. Was Jayne Mansfield really decapitated? Which manly appendage of Napoleon's was cut off during his...
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Borrowed Time

An AIDS Memoir

by Paul Monette
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

“An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss” from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man (Publishers Weekly). In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of...
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by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015

This is a Summary of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, where this bestselling author tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease...
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by Peter Handke
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013

"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide." So begins Peter Handke's...
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Standing in the Shadow

Help and Encouragement for Suicide Survivors

by June Cerza Kolf
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002

Grief counselor June Cerza Kolf is repeatedly asked for specific guidance in helping suicide survivors function and heal. Their grief is unique in that the trauma of suicide leaves them in such a devastated state that the typical coping mechanisms no longer work. With deep sensitivity, Kolf leads...
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Living When a Young Friend Commits Suicide

Or Even Starts Talking about It

by Earl A. Grollman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010

In the last thirty years, the suicide rate among young people has tripled. In this book addressed to the young survivors of this epidemic, Earl A. Grollman, the internationally known lecturer, writer, and grief counselor, and Max Malikow, a psychotherapist and pastoral counselor, offer solace and...
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Ready to Live, Prepared to Die

A Provocative Guide to the Rest of Your Life

by Amy Harwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013

Are you afraid of dying? Are you hesitant to talk with those who you love about your last wishes? Do you avoid the tasks that help you prepare for the future? Or, are you helping someone--a spouse, parent, friend, patient, or client--who is working through the issues of death...
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Exes

A Novel

by Max Winter
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

[A] heartbreaking novel about the devastations of severed attachments.” —NPR For Clay Blackall, a lifelong resident of Providence, Rhode Island, the place has become an obsession. Here live the only people who can explain what happened to his brother, Eli, whose suicide haunts this heartbreaking,...
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Glimpses of Heaven

True Stories of Hope and Peace at the End of Life's Journey

by Trudy RN Harris
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

Drawn from her decades of experience as a hospice nurse, Trudy Harris shares stories that offer an incredible glimpse at what lies beyond this world--ethereal music, colors that did not exist on earth, angels, and loved ones who have gone on before. She has been with hundreds of patients as they took...
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by Judy Collins
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006

Sanity & Grace speaks to all who have endured the sorrow of losing a loved one. In the depths of her suffering, Collins found relief by reaching out to others for help and support. Now she extends her hand to comfort other survivors whose lives have been affected by similar tragedy. Honest and...
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Fireflies

A Father's Tale of Love and Loss

by David Morrell
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011

In the bestselling novels of suspense master David Morrell, fear is the main subject. But Morrell himself had never known genuine terror until he watched his 15-year-old son wage a heroic but doomed struggle with cancer. This is one father’s powerful and unforgettable story of fierce love, impenetrable...
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by Terri Ann Leidich
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010

When Terri Ann Leidich's twenty-year-old son was suddenly killed in a vehicle accident, she was thrown into the roller coaster agony of grief. Adapted from the journal she kept through the experience of her horrendous loss, this book is a roadmap for parents who have lost children, as well as for...
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Always Too Soon

Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents

by Allison Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010

While the death of a parent is always painful, losing both is life-altering. When author Allison Gilbert lost both parents at age 32, she could not find any books that spoke to her with the same level of compassion and reassurance that she found in the support group she belonged to, so she decided...
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by Helen Walne
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014

Popular columnist Helen Walne tells of her tortuous relationship with her brother, Richard, who couldn't resist the lure of death. Beautifully told, it is an achingly personal account of the inner turmoil of those who are left behind after a loved one's suicide, and of dealing with grief, fear, isolation...
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