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Lament for a Son
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How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies
: :Mourning the death of a loved one is a process all of us will go through at one time or another. But wherever the death is sudden or anticipated, few of us are prepared for it or for the grief it brings. There is no right or wrong way to grieve; each person's response to loss will be different. Now, in this compassionate, comprehensive guide, Therese A. Rando, Ph.D., bereavement specialist and author of Loss And Anticipatory Grief, leads you gently through the painful but necessary process of grieving ...
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Dying Well
from: Riverhead Trade
: :On his deathbed, faced with creditors and unpaid bills, Oscar Wilde said despairingly, 'I am dying beyond my means!' If only the poor, beleaguered genius had read this book! None of us gets out of here alive, but reading this book will lessen your fear of the ultimate end and give you some guidance about enjoying your life to the fullest right up until your final moment. Do people really enjoy life in the face of death? People do. The ...
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On Life After Death
:Book Description:In this collection of inspirational essays, internationally known author Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross draws on her in-depth research of more than 20,000 people who had near-death experiences, revealing the afterlife as a return to wholeness of spirit. With frank and compassionate advice for those dealing with terminal illness or the death of a loved one, ON LIFE AFTER DEATH offers a compelling message of hope to the living, so that they may grow stronger from tragedy and live life to ...
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Widow To Widow: Thoughtful, Practical Ideas For Rebuilding Your Life
: :In this remarkably useful guide, widow, author, and therapist Genevieve Davis Ginsburg offers fellow widows-as well as their family and friends-sage advice for coping with the loss of a husband. From learning to travel and eat alone to creating new routines to surviving the holidays and anniversaries that reopen emotional wounds, Widow to Widow walks readers through the challenges of widowhood and encourages them on their path to building a new life.
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The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments
: :When author Bill Bridges's wife died from breast cancer, he began to question all his previous groundbreaking work on transitions. Having conducted seminars and written bestselling books (Transitions, Managing Transitions), Bridges had built a reputation as an expert on the topic. And yet, 'I felt now that my words had totally failed to match in depth the experience of actually being in transition,' he explains. After floundering in self-doubt for months after his wife died, Bridges embarked on a spiritual ...
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Dog Years: A Memoir (P.S.)
: : When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a large, malnourished golden retriever in need of loving care. Joining Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family, Beau bounds back into life. Before long, the two dogs become Doty's intimate companions, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during the darkest days. Dog Years is a poignant, intimate memoir interwoven with ...
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What's Heaven
: :Borne from actual questions asked by her own daughters, journalist Maria Shriver's What's Heaven? is a gentle narrative following the conversations that pass between a mother and a young daughter in the days immediately following the death of the child's special great-grandmother. Initially, young Kate's concern is with the obvious change in her mother. Quickly, one question leads to another. Kate asked, 'Mommy, why are you so sad?' Her mom looked at her and said, 'My grandma, your great-grandma, has ...
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Embraced by the Light
: :Embraced by the Light is an inspirational map of the afterlife framed in the moment of Eadie's death, and presents a possible answer to the big question, 'Why are we here?' An easy read, its subtitle could have been 'The Average Person's Guide to Near-Death Experiences.' Although heavily filtered through Eadie's Christian worldview, her vision of the afterlife does not include a wrathful deity, but a figure of love and compassion. Some readers may find Eadie's repeated Christian references bothersome, ...
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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
: :'Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense, and unpalliated,' writes Kay Redfield Jamison. 'There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death not uncommonly is violent and grisly.' Jamison has studied manic-depressive illness and suicide both professionally--and personally. She first planned her own suicide at 17; she attempted to carry it out at 28. Now professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, she ...
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