Death category: 2756 books

Psychologist and Shanti Project founder, Charles Garfield offers compassionate and expert guidance for friends and families who want to ease their loved ones’ final days. By focusing on the reciprocal and healing relationship between the living and the dying, Life’s Last Gift provides practical tools about connecting, finding peace, and being of service to those at the end of life.

Alexander had just begun his studies at university when he was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. In this honest account, Alex's mother traces the impact of the diagnosis on the whole family and outlines the issues that arose during diagnosis, treatment and terminal stages of her son's illness. Standing...

Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering. Suffering: Psychological and Social Aspects in Loss, Grief, and Care is a unique and insightful volume of observations, anecdotes, and case studies about suffering. In this important book, doctors, nurses,...

This is an eloquent book that allows the readers who have experienced the loss of a baby to find comfort and healing in these two powerful, honest, and courageous short chapters, which also include morning and evening healing affirmations, as well as monthly written activities that will open their...

Widow’s Walk, book three to Leukemia, My Husband and Me: A Turbulent Triangle: Six months into my Widow's Walk unearths many new challenges.  Now that the stress over Mike's illness is over, dealing with his death as well as my new status poses many, new obstacles.  Enduring the most difficult...

Ministry With the Aging--the one most frequently used textbook in seminary courses that deal with ministry and aging--is now available from The Haworth Press. Here is a genuinely useful and informative text in which an all-star cast of authors reflects on the current situation of the aged in our society....

Widows in today’s world find little support to recover and adapt to a life they didn’t plan. Friends, family, and others have little idea about how to help, leaving them in a vulnerable spot when they need support most. What can widows do? Where do they turn for help? How do they face the...

Kasi’s cousin died in a car accident in 2009. Mary Lee’s grandson died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1998. Kayla’s uncle died by suicide in 2001. Part of the award-winning Grief Diaries series, **Surviving Loss of a Loved One** shares the poignant stories of people who have all lost...

Patti was 14 when her father died suddenly of a heart attack. Mary was 26 when her father died from a fall. Vicki was 5 when her mother died in a freak car accident. They all have one thing in common: a journey of intense heartache and a rollercoaster of emotions ranging from sadness and disbelief...

Nancy Moore, a grief counsellor, felt inspired to write this book by all the wounded yet wonderful, loving people who need support at times of loss and grief. In The Healing Circle she takes the reader step-by-step through the loss of her partner, and her gradual adjustment to the new circumstances in...

Whatever your situation in life, there will be a time where you will be confronted by work conflicts, relationship separation, medical difficulties, or the death of a loved one. No one escapes these circumstances of life and the pain they bring. At these times of deep distress, we often revert to...

The road to recovery after the loss of a loved one can seem hopeless and endless. As no stranger to tragedy, author Vernessa Blackwell understands the paralyzing effects that can be caused by the deaths of loved ones, especially when you feel there is nowhere or no one to turn to. In *The Grief Helpline*,...

Frog Heaven is a "black liner" book offering a useful resource for educators and plenty of associated fun for children, while carrying a helpful message explaining Death and the natural cycle of things in reassuring terms.  There are line drawings to colour in accompanying the tale of little...

An escaped convict named Gillian Rodriguez murdered the son of a divorced man called Sean Steele. The death of his son shattered Sean’s life and he made it his mission to find the man who killed him. Alone and broken, he searched for Gillian everywhere. The search continued for two years before...