Death category: 2756 books
Death Benefits
How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult's Life--for the Better
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
When psychotherapist Jeanne Safer lost her mother, she was determined to turn her loss into an opportunity for insight and growth. Through her own experience, her work with patients, and in-depth interviews, Safer shows that the death of a parent can be a catalyst for change. In this updated paperback...
Death Makes Life Possible
Revolutionary Insights on Living, Dying, and the Continuation of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Our beliefs about what happens when we die define how we live today. And more and more of us are discovering a radical truth: when we release our fear of death, we open to an immensely richer life right here and now. But how do we incorporate this profound insight into our everyday lives? With Death...
The Dark Interval
Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.
“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins
“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting...
Be Not Afraid
Overcoming the Fear of Death
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Fear of accidents or acts of terror, illness or dying, loneliness or grief – if you’re like most people such anxieties may be robbing you of the peace that could be yours. In Be Not Afraid, Johann Christoph Arnold, a seasoned pastoral counselor who has accompanied many people to death’s door,...
The Grace in Dying
A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
In this brilliantly conceived and beautifully written book, Kathleen Dowling Singh illuminates the profound psychological and spiritual transformations experiences by the dying as the natural process of death reconnects them with the source of their being. Examining the end of life in the light of...
The Kundalini Book of Living and Dying
Gateways to Higher Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
There is a spiritual energy dormant below the base of the spine. In the East it is called the Kundalini- but by whatever name it is called, it is the common denominator in all major religions. People with awakened Kundalini experience death even before dying through visions and out-of-body spiritual...
Let's Talk About it!
Finding Peace with Death and Dying in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Let's Talk About It is the essential book on death and dying to transform the way we die. Lea’s unique and innovative approach educates us on: finding the courage to face our fear of death; empowerment for making conscious choices; creating a care team of family and friends to support real connection;...
Joy in the Journey
Finding Abundance in the Shadow of Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Memoir Steve Hayner was serving as president of Columbia Seminary and was healthy and fit when he found out he had terminal pancreatic cancer. He and his wife, Sharol, embarked on a journey together with their children that soon included tens of thousands...
Nana is Dying
Facing the difficulties of life series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
This book is designed to help you tell your children about dying and death. Have you been in such a situation where you didn’t know what to say to your children about Nana’s death? Perhaps you wondered what you should tell them.
If you had a bad experience in the way you were treated by...
Experiencing the Loss of a Family Member
Discover the Path to Hope and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Your Guide Through the Valley of Loss
Losing a family member is one of life's most difficult experiences, and the weeks and months that follow such a loss can be overwhelming. Experiencing the Loss of a Family Member is a trustworthy companion for your journey through grief. With gentle honesty...
by Cecelia Leeman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
This book tells the true story of the tragic, unexpected death of my daughter Laura on Christmas Eve.
During her twenty-one years of life, I always tried to protect her. Her death made me feel so helpless. I was at the mercy of the unknown. This cancer-eating pain in my heart was destroying...
by Tommy S. W. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
In a way, we are all going through our end-of-life living. So, this book is relevant to all of us. It is, however, more pertinent to those or their loved ones who are suffering from terminal illness or at an advanced age whereby death is within a foreseeable future. This book contains a conversation...
by Lori Plegge
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Most people who have lost a child write books about how to cope with the child’s death. Author Lori Plegge has taken a different perspective on losing a child. Instead of writing about how to cope with the death of a child, she has decided to write a story about her son’s life. When Tomorrow Starts...
Being with Dying
Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds—as has been demonstrated time and again in Joan Halifax’s decades of work with the dying and their caregivers. Inspired by traditional Buddhist teachings, her work is a source of wisdom for all those who are charged...