Bereavement category: 2356 books
The Best Death
How to Die Well
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with a terminal illness, how do you plan for the best death possible? In April 2008 Sarah Winch's husband, Lincoln, died from kidney cancer that was diagnosed only four months earlier. He was 48. Sarah and Lincoln prepared as best they could for his death....
Only Love Remains
Lessons from the Dying on the Meaning of Life - Euthanasia or Palliative Care?
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
What happens to the dying in the final days and weeks of their lives? What emotions come to the surface and what do they want to talk about? Attilio Stajano, a volunteer worker at the palliative care ward of a Brussels hospital, presents a series of deeply-moving personal encounters with seriously-ill...
Training Guide for Visiting the Sick
More Than a Social Call
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Understand the basic practical aspects of pastoral care-and make your visit to the sick meaningful for both of you!
Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a useful handbook from a Christian perspective that provides the common sense and not-so-common answers to your...
by Claire Leimbach,Zenith Virago,Trypheyna McShane
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
A warm, reassuring and very practical book on dealing with death and dying. When someone we love dies suddenly, or after a serious illness, we're often left wondering if we could have done more. How prepared are we to care for loved ones, talk to children about death, deal with the death of young...
by Ken Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Although flying is one of the safest modes of transportation, accidents do happen, and when they do, the aftermath is devastating. With today's 24- hour media access, we are bombarded by images of twisted metal, debris and personal belongings, smoldering away in a seemingly endless nightmare. Aviation...
by Herman Adèr
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In this novella from Herman Adèr, the autobiographical elements are more obvious than in his previous novellas and stories. Yet, the first-person narrator is nowhere centre stage, the father and the mother remain the main characters all along. However, this detached manner of writing emphasizes how...
by Ian Clayton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
'An astonishing work' - Joanne Harris
Every parent's worst nightmare became a reality for Ian Clayton. On a short holiday break in Hay-on-Wye he took his nine-year-old twins canoeing, and in a freak accident his daughter Billie was drowned. In a remarkably frank and vivid way Clayton describes...
Buddhish
Exploring Buddhism in a Time of Grief: One Doctor's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
When you can’t eat, pray, or love.
Melissa married her high school sweetheart, launched her career as an emergency doctor, rescued a Golden Retriever, and best of all, expected a baby in July.
Then she delivered a stillborn baby girl.
What do you do when your heart shatters,...
by The Abbotts
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Have you lost someone lately & would like to make contact with them? If so, this book will help you. The Abbotts, have developed easy to use exercises for you to meet with & communicate with your deceased loved one or pet, in a safe & pleasant manner. You can learn to see, feel & hear them & even...
The Soul Midwives' Handbook
The Holistic and Spiritual Care of the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Soul Midwives, a movement begun by Felicity Warner, has changed the face of modern holistic and spiritual palliative care in the UK and abroad.
Soul Midwives are holistic and spiritual companions to the dying. They draw on traditional skills, now largely forgotten, applying them to our modern...
The Truth
My Journey to the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A brave and captivating book that takes you into the heart where Love is stronger than death.
This is the amazing true story of how one young woman, survived the sudden and unexpected deaths of 3 partners, all vibrant men in their 40s. How she picked herself off the floor and asked for...
Before Forever After
When Conversations About Living Meet Questions About Dying
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
More talking. Less suffering. More living alive with intention and joy. Helena Dolny imagines a world in which people engage in death-in-life conversations as part of everyday living. She believes we’d live better and suffer less if we were to talk about dying more readily. Archbishop Desmond Tutu...
by James Pennebaker, John F. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
“Write about what keeps you awake at night.”That’s the advice James Pennebaker and John Evans offer in Expressive Writing: Words That Heal. This book will help you overcome the traumas and emotional upheavals that are keeping you awake. You’ll resolve issues, improve your health, and build...