Death category: 2756 books
Blue Peninsula
Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
"My son's illness is eight years old and has no name. It started when he was fourteen. He is now twenty-two. It is taking away his ability to walk and to reason. It is getting worse, some years more rapidly than others."
These words begin the first section of Blue Peninsula, a narrative...
by Mary Burbidge
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
“I have a darling baby. A patient placid baby who nuzzles warmly into her sheepskin and gives me a sleepy smile when I come in. She sits up, bounces happily and reaches out for a cuddle …” “I’ve had my darling baby for nearly twenty years now and unless something happens, I guess I’ll...
Vedere oltre
La spiritualità dinanzi al morire nelle diverse religioni
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Nata dalle discussioni emerse durante e dopo il convegno Seeing beyond in facing death - Vedere oltre dinanzi al morire, la presente raccolta di saggi (curata da Ines Testoni, Guidalberto Bormolini, Enzo Pace e Luigi Vero Tarca) sviluppa il tema del morire, della morte e degli stumenti per vedere...
by Lee D. Scheingold
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Lee Scheingold’s rich, painful intellectual and personal journey—following the death of her husband—is described from viewpoints that have informed her life: psychoanalysis, clinical social work, Buddhism and family medicine. Yet it is poetry that is the connecting thread, beginning with the...
Legal Executions in North Carolina and South Carolina
A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1962
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Presented in chronological order, this book provides essential details about the 1,152 men and women who were legally put to death in North and South Carolina during the century after the Civil War. Each entry contains information about the criminals themselves and the deeds which cost them their...
Dying in Dubai
A Memoir of Marriage, Mourning, and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
DYING IN DUBAI is a memoir of love, loss, reckoning, and renewal, set against the backdrop of a Rodeo Drive-on-Mars desert city. It tells of the sudden death of Roselee Blooston’s beloved husband, Jerry, and how her fifteen day journey through a profoundly disorienting environment, and the inner journey...
The Bills Keep Coming, the Grass Keeps Growing
Survivor of a Suicide Gets on with Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Sandi Latimer’s life changed forever the day she returned home after her volunteer to find her husband dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. In The Bills Keeps Coming, the Grass Keeps Growing, she shares her story, telling how several times she turned to her journalist talents to find answers....
The Escort
Walking to Eternity With My Brother
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
No one can be adequately prepared to receive a phone call saying your loved one is dying a slow but inevitable death.Yet on that day, as I looked out my office window in Atlanta, savoring the changing of the seasons, the wonderful show of colors of the turning leaves, and a gradual shift to the approaching...
My Mother's Way of Dying Well
Reflections by the Author on Her Parents' Deaths
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The unexpected collection of my parents ashes from the crematorium opened the door to a new adventure in dealing my parents death that I personally found very liberating for my soul. It marked the beginning of a personal pilgrimage of faith I had no intention of taking, I thought I was dealing with...
What if You don’t Wake Up Alive Tomorrow Morning?
The Beginning of the End!
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
What is the combined weight of life and death? People are born, they get educated, work all their lives, make money, get married, have kids and get old. This is the cycle of life. What happens after that? Where is everyone’s life ultimately heading to? What is really out there? Is it created by God...
Walking in Grace with Grief
Meditations for Healing After Loss
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
"I've come to think that grief is two-fold. It's the painful longing for the physical presence of our loved one and it's the emotional heart ache we feel as we disengage from these unfulfilled dreams, the sorrows of what could have been. The stories of a live unlived." Della Temple
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by Jordan Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Now a major motion picture starring Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith, and Tim Robbins.
“An elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama. Marjorie Primeoperates by stealth… at some point, you realize that it’s...
by Peggy Chan
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
The colors of emotions: colors of happiness, conflict, despair, loss, sorrow and solitude, all the poignant moments in life will resonate with you even as you recognise the human psyche that soars in the joy of rekindled love and plummets in the agony of betrayal, that trembles in grief and despair...
by Bill Vyers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
My fourteen year old daughter had been dead 65 days. I spent the time in jail working on this book 20 hours a day. It was written in 14 days to honor my God and to remember my daughter. I was asking God why He allowed so many horrible things to happen to me. This book is about my child from before...