Death category: 2756 books
by Pierre Richard Arty, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Just where is the intersection between spirituality and medicine? Life and Death and the Things in Between is a collection of ten stories documenting the struggles and strengths of the human spirit as it searches for meaning amid challenging circumstances. The stories reveal the psychological and...
by Peter Bridgewater
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
The emotional responses to death are unpredictable and individual, with denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance all natural stages of the grief cycle. Mindfulness & The Journey of Bereavement explores the universal, life-changing journey of grief and offers insight into how we can understand...
Baby Boomers Face Grief
Survival and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Ninety million baby boomers will, in the next 20 years, face the loss of one or both parents. This book discusses society's lack of acceptance of grief in general and the way past generations have taught us to deal with this life event. "Time will heal.", "They had a good life"...
by James Van Praagh
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
James Van Praagh's first two books, both New York Times bestsellers, have been a powerful healing force for millions of readers. Using his talents as a medium, Van Praagh has not only helped the bereaved reach their lost loved ones and find peace but he has also illuminated the mysteries of death,...
When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter
Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
For every parent who loses a child, when one life ends another life is forever changed. --from When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks presents a breakthrough concept of mourning, documenting the process of evolution from initial grief to an altered outlook on life. Excerpts from interviews...
The Mourning Handbook
The Most Comprehensive Resource Offering Practical and Compassionate Advice on Coping with All Aspects of Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
No one should be left to grieve alone
Even with the help of friends and family, grieving the death of a loved one can be a complex, sometimes overwhelming, process. The Mourning Handbook is written as a companion to those mourners in need of practical and emotional assistance during the trying times...
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES
THE MOST EXCITING AND DETAILED NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE EVER REPORTED
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book is special. There are things within its pages that nobody else in the world knows that will benefit you greatly. I died, I went to Heaven, and then I came back. I believe this was the most advanced life after death experience ever reported. I saw people talking...
by Toby Austin Locke
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The Living and the Dead examines the boundaries between the worlds of life and death.
The text draws upon philosophy, ethnography, literature and natural science to suggest that life and death are best understood not in opposition, but as continuous tendencies acting upon one another. Austin...
Mortuary Dialogues
Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations....
by Stephanie Paige Cole
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
There is nothing in the world that affects us more than the death of a loved one, especially a child. Stephanie Cole found that out first hand when her unborn daughter died unexpectedly one week after her due date. Stephanie stumbled through the death of her daughter, using creative expression as a...
by Jack Riemer
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Forward by Sherwin B. Nuland
As Jack Riemer demonstrates in this collection of Jewish resources for mourning and healing, the Jewish tradition has much to offer those who seek its help in time of need. Here are personal as well as practical writings by contemporary authors about the Shivah...
by Eileen Colville
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
It goes without saying that death is inevitable, but it is not something any of us knows a lot about. So when fate delivers us in the role of planning the funeral of someone we love, many find themselves at a loss. There are a lot of issues that arise that need attention quickly. Practical matters and...
A Time To Die
A Biblical Look at End of Life Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Death comes to everyone sooner or later. For some, death comes quickly, without any warning. For others, death comes more slowly. Many people wonder how to make difficult decisions about medical treatment, especially when the cost of medical care increases every year. Eighty percent of Americans have...
The Grieving Child
A Parent's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Making a Child's World Whole Again
Explaining death to a child is one of the most difficult tasks a parent or other relative can face. The Grieving Child offers practical, compassionate advice for helping a child cope with the death of a parent or other loved one. Parents of children from preschool...