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The realization that people too often feel isolated in their world of serious chronic illness, this book describes a journey of discovery that will support people who need their voices to be heard. Insights and suggestions are offered for both the patient and their caregivers. It offers suggestions on how to build honest, dignified relationships cementing heart-to-heart friendships when they are most needed. Rather than feel awkward or unsure when...
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What happens when your worst fears as a parent come true, when you receive that dreaded phone call, the one you have always prayed you would never get? Your child has passed away, and now you are living a real-life nightmare. You suddenly beg God and bargain for just five more minutes with your child. You want to hold them again, tell them you love them, and that everything will be all right. In reality, you must now face the truth. You will never...
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In May 1951, a car, loaded with bootleg whiskey and traveling without lights, ran a stop sign at a West Texas country crossroads and collided with an ordinary cotton farming family. Five adults died that night, including Elva Edwards' mother, Pearle, her father, Calvin, and her beloved Granny Rogers. One-year-old Elva and her 3-year-old sister somehow survived. The girls grew up on the farm with their Edwards' grandparents whose lives were forever...
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No Time for Tears is a new kind of guide, rich with information and real-life stories, to help not only people struggling through grief due to the loss of a loved one but also those who counsel them. Psychotherapist Judy Heath draws on her experiences in private practice and in her own life, as well as years of research, to address the misconceptions, myths, and misinformation about grief that still abound today. She notes that while popular scholarship...
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Surviving suicide loss is often about telling the story. Each person who dies by suicide leaves behind a life shared with loved ones and a series of events that led to the suicide. Seeking Hope: Stories of the Suicide Bereaved features the stories of fourteen people in their own words of the losses that have forever changed their lives. These stories describe the endurance of traveling through grief. In addition, the proceeds from the book benefit...
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Widowhood Is Not Funny is a Guidebook for the new widow. The new life of a widow is a damn hard journey and the best travel guide is another widow. This Guidebook is written by someone who has been there and done that, someone who has been through the Five Stages of Grief and knows how difficult life is after losing one's husband. The new widow needs help from someone who knows how to get to acceptance. A New Widow especially needs to know she's not...
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#1 Beginnings are delicate or explosive. They can start almost invisibly or arrive with a big bang. They hold the promise of new lessons to be learned, new territory to be explored, and old lessons to be recalled, practiced, and appreciated.
#2 Don't judge the journey of others, and don't let them judge yours. All persons are free to have the experiences their souls...
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Cristina Carballo-Perelman, M.D. has been a physician for over 30-years, providing care and comfort to many of her patients as they take their last breath.
In her book, The Caretaker of All Souls: An Intimate Interview with Death, Death takes center stage as the commentator of the experiences that she, as a physician, has had with Death throughout her career.
The persona of Death is examined as is the role it plays as caretaker of the Soul.
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90) Bereavement
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The one thing we all have to deal with at some time in our lives is the death of someone we love. And yet this is an eventuality that very few of us are prepared for. This book, by encouraging the person left behind to understand the stages of bereavement and to deal with the emotions it causes, bringing both sympathetic help and, hopefully, reassurance at a time when it is needed most.
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Beautifully Broken was born many years prior to the first words hitting the pages of this book. My experience with suicide started as a child with my mother's suicide attempts and continued with the loss of one of my best friends while I was in college. After that loss, my brother attempted suicide and one of my first true loves took his life, and my father also died from suicide.
My husband was my strength, and the only way I survived the loss of...
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August 13, 2014, Marci found Paul, her beloved husband of thirty-four years, dead by suicide on their backyard patio. No warning. No explanation. No final good-bye. Less than five years later, on March 15, 2019, the unthinkable and unimaginable happened. Michael, Marci's second husband of only eight months, was found dead by suicide. In this captivating book, Marci vulnerably shares her intimate journey from anger, hopelessness, and sorrow to acceptance...
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Whether debilitating illness, divorce, financial hardship, emotional upheaval, or a loved one's death, life's injustice impacts everyone. When it does, questions arise: How can God allow such suffering? Why is he so silent? Can he be trusted? Finding Hope When Life's Not Fair chronicles Lee Ezell's own journey of hope and courage as she struggled with her faith during her darkest days. Offering no easy answers but plenty of hard-won wisdom, she writes...
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#1 The author, Barbara Coombs Lee, began her medical career as a candy striper at St. Joseph Hospital in Joliet, Illinois. She has been working in health care for almost fifty-five years, specializing in intensive care and emergency rooms.
#2 The sad truth is that advance directives are often ignored, particularly in situations like Maria's, when a sudden catastrophe...
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Grief is a personal journey, never the same for any two people and as unique as your life and your relationships. Although loss is an inevitable part of life, how you approach this fact can make the difference between meaningless pain and the manifestation of understanding and wisdom. This book describes a mindful approach to dealing with grief that can help you make that difference. By walking this mindful path, you will discover that you are capable...
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From the moment he first woke up out at sea in the crow's nest of fisherman Gaston Angelo Noel's purse seiner, the eagle Hali knew the adventures he had longed for since leaving his nest in Anchor Point, Alaska for life on the Homer Spit were about to begin.Sad that his hatchmate, Leuc, would not be able to join him, Hali finds himself on a journey more interesting than he ever imagined while learning a few life's lessons about courage, loyalty, and...
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A message of comfort for grieving readers, this remarkable story recounts a mother's supernatural contact with a son who perished on a Flanders battlefield during World War I. Its simple message, as expressed in one of the soldier's communications, is that "There is no death. Life goes on without hindrance or handicap. The one thing that troubles the men who come here is the fact that the ones that loved them are in agony." Originally published anonymously,...
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Russell Friedman and John W. James are the exclusive providers of grief and grief-recovery related content on a memorial website called Tributes.com, which receives approximately 1.5 million hits per month. In addition to providing helpful articles on recovery from loss, they answer grief-related questions submitted by visitors to the site, The questions are unique and personal, and represent the gamut of emotions experienced by grievers in the aftermath...
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#1 The funeral industry is a sales industry, and the funeral directors are the salesmen. They long to be liked and understood, and they want to be worthy of high regard. They are preying on the grief, remorse, and guilt of survivors, or they are trained professionals with high ethical standards.
#2 The funeral industry is suffering from a lack of image and identity....
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