A compassionate guide to the experience of loss as an essential growth process Explores the nature of loss as a profound mystery shared by all human beings Offers sensitive and practical advice for experiencing grief and preparing for the healing journey that follows We grieve only for that which we have loved, and the transient nature of life makes love and loss intimate companions.
Charles Wilkins, then a university student, took a job as a gravedigger in a vast corporate cemetery in the east end of Toronto during the hazy summer of 1969.
Teen suicide has long been considered one of society's darkest secrets; the idea of troubled young people driven to take their own lives was a tragedy too horrible to contemplate, let alone talk about openly.
In this illuminating collection of oral-history style interviews, Casey Jarman talks to a funeral industry watchdog about the (often shady) history of the death trade; he hears how songwriter David Bazan lost his faith while trying to hold on to his family; he learns about cartoonist Art Spiegelman using his college LSD trips to explain death to his children; and he gets to know his own grandparents, posthumously.
"e;The Day After Death"e; is a 1904 work by French writer Louis Figuier that explores the subject of death and what happens when we die, with reference to contemporary science and philosophy.
First published in 1908, this vintage book explores the concepts of life and death, with special reference to immortality and chapters on the power of the mind and mental healing.
NEW STATESMAN, THE TIMES AND EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'The friend you need when you're grieving - full of heart and hope' PHILIPPA PERRY'Honest, warm and funny' JULIA SAMUEL'A game-changer' DR KATHRYN MANNIXWhen Cariad Lloyd was just fifteen, she became the person-whose-dad-had-died; a mess of emotions and questions.
A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full of curious facts' The TimesCauses of death have changed irrevocably across time.
A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full of curious facts' The TimesCauses of death have changed irrevocably across time.
NEW STATESMAN, THE TIMES AND EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'The friend you need when you're grieving - full of heart and hope' PHILIPPA PERRY'Honest, warm and funny' JULIA SAMUEL'A game-changer' DR KATHRYN MANNIXWhen Cariad Lloyd was just fifteen, she became the person-whose-dad-had-died; a mess of emotions and questions.
Human remains and identification presents a pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence.
The inspiring memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete who became a champion for people suffering from rare, under-researched diseases--all while battling his own.
This book argues that suicidal people have the right to receive treatment and for reasonable steps to be taken that they are protected from killing themselves.
This book argues that suicidal people have the right to receive treatment and for reasonable steps to be taken that they are protected from killing themselves.
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The Divine Art of Dying explores the time when individuals facing a life-limiting illness make critical decisions about how they will live until they die.
Choosing How We Die compels the reader to see his or her own journey through the dying process as something we can only consider when we are healthy and as a gift to those we leave behind after we are physically dead.
"e;This book is well timed and critically needed because it is a unique focus specifically working with the individual drug abuser which is written within the Carl Rogers' person-centered approach.
The experience of stillbirth and other losses in pregnancy at what is usually a time of great joy is tragic for everyone involved, including midwifery professionals.
Spirituality and Coping with Loss: End of Life Healthcare Practice describes a research study that reflects nurses' experience of the nature of loss encountered in end of life care settings as well as the ways in which spirituality is a resource in coping in these situations.
