After Suicide
People who commit suicide may feel that their death is better for themselves and their loved ones or friends. They have reached the end of their to…
All Rivers Flow to the Sea
This a heart rendering story of a girl in her grief who spirals to the depths of despair before she learns to let go and move on with her life.…
And a Time to Die
Dying is invariably inconvenient: To-do lists sit undone; the dog, while forlorn, is still up to eating in our memory. Then there's the matter of ho…
Bereft
"I was the one who had tried to put an ocean between my past and present. I was the one who had left on the distant shore my old name and all my history and…
Beyond Goodbye
There is nothing more emotionally devastating than the death of one’s own child. When Nancy Geller’s two-year old son died, she had no religi…
Confessions of a Grieving Christian
This book is one of an astonishing amazement. It opens with a short story, written by the author's now deceased daughter. It is a story that was told to…
Death Is That Man Taking Names
We don't talk much about death. As a result, we deprive ourselves of a deep understanding of why it is regarded as unpleasant, even taboo. In…
Death of a Parent
The old order suddenly changeth, yielding place to new as it must follow the night, the day. Pardon the mixed metaphor but a parent's death invokes withi…
Death's Door
Gilbert's disposition for poetry--and women's writing--defines her perspective on death in her newest book Death's Door, Mode…
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Driving My Father
Susan Wicks portrays the final years of her father, after the death of her mother. His mental and physical abilities gradually decline, although it is never…
Ethical Wills
Ethical Wills: Putting Your Values on Paper is, as the name suggests, a self-help guide for those wishing to write an ethical will. While there a…
Going Through Hell Without Help From Above
In Going Through Hell Without Help From Above, James Eder powerfully describes the his experience in September 1985 during the days in which his t…
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Goodbye Rune
This unspeakably sad picture book tells the story of a young girl Sara and her best friend Rune. They often play by the local lake together and one day t…
Graceful Exits
We in the West have more than great difficulty hearing without a smile the kind of thing Mantak Chia has regaled us with in his recent "bodhisattva&…
Grieving for Children
Bert Hellinger``A Teaching Seminar on Love's Hidden Symmetry Vol. 4``Videotape, 70 minutes``Grieving for Children``Solutions for Four Families who have Lost a Child``With commentary by Hunter Beaumont, PhD``Directed by Johannes Neuhauser``Distributed by Z
Healing Conversations
Most if not all of us have been with someone we have wanted to help through a difficult time. How should we best do so? What should we best say and how…
Honoring the Dead and Facing Death
Bert Hellinger``A Teaching Seminar on Love's Hidden Symmetry Vol 2``Videotape 80 minutes``Honoring the Dead and Facing Death``Three Family Constellations Dealing with Grief and Dying``With Commentary by Hunter Beaumont PhD``Directed by Johannes Neuhauser`
I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye
Noel and Blair's I Wasn't Ready To Say Goodbye ranks right up there with When Bad Things Happen To Good People to help people deal with the…
It Takes a Worried Man
It Takes a Worried Man by Brendan Halpin is a really refreshing perspective of the agony and uncertainty of the spouse of a breast cancer victim.…
Learning to Fall
Learning To Fall is an exceptional book for a couple of reasons. It's one of the rare few independently published books to be picked up by a major…
Liberating Losses
DABDA: this is the formula taught to medical students and grief counsellors the world over, since these five stages of grieving were identified i…
Loss
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross is widely recognized as one of the foremost authorities in the field of death, dying and transition for over twenty years. She inve…
Love Is a Mix Tape
Rob Sheffield married Renée Crist about a year after meeting her in when he was in grad school and she was in the MFA program. They were ver…
Mars and Venus - Starting Over.
A breakup, divorce, or loss of a loved one isn't just the end of your relationship with that person. It's a continuation of every feeling of abandonment you've ever suffered. It's the loss of a system of approval you'd come to depend on. The struggle, as
Michael Rosen's Sad Book
This short picture book for children is about grief. The lead character and narrator is Michael Rosen, a grown man, and he explains that he is sad becau…
Nobody's Child Anymore
My parents are both in their seventies, and they both have had some serious problems with their health. I hope that they both have many years of good healt…
Olive's Ocean
Twelve-year-old Martha Boyle has a wonderful close family; her parents, her grandmother Godbee, her older brother Vince and her infant sister Lucy. They…
One Last Hug Before I Go
Is there life after death? The age-old question has plagued mankind since the beginning of time. For those who believe in angels, heaven and a spiritual sou…
Parting Company
I selected this book because I have a keen interest in grief and loss counseling and thought it would be helpful to read a qualitative study that investigat…
R.I.P.
This is a book that seems to fall between many stools. It describes itself in its subtitle as "The Complete Book of Death & Dying" but even in the In…
Reason's Grief
George Harris looks at the problem of the value of tragedy instrumentally, in terms of how an understanding of the tragic can improve our thought about t…
Seeing the Crab
In this remarkable book, Christina Middlebrook tells the story of her battle with cancer. At the end of the book, finished in 1996, she is of course still a…
Speak to Me
Marcie Hershman’s writing is tempered with the wisdom that can only be gained through suffering. Her prose at times becomes almost poetic and l…
Standby
In her early fifties Sandy Broyard lost the man she had married at 23, long-time book critic, book review editor, and essayist for The New York Times, An…
The Color of Absence
"Loss may take many forms…but with loss comes opportunity for reevaluation, change and growth". This is a book written for young readers…
The Forgotten Mourners
Children have different needs from adults. As obvious as that statement seems, it has only been in recent decades that attention has been given to children…
The Loss of Self: A Family Resource for the Care of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
The diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease is one of the most devastating a family can receive about a family member. It ultimately means that unless some other…
The Measure of Our Days
Jerome Groopman is an internationally respected researcher on cancer and AIDS, and he is also a clinician who deals with patients on a regular basis. His bo…
The Undertaking
I heard undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch being interviewed on NPR last year, and he seemed such a moderate and wise person, with a few eccentricities. The U…
The Work of Mourning
In accordance with some of the suggestions to be found in the substantial, well informed and well written 'Introduction' to this volume, one should proba…
To Die Well
To Die Well is a guiding light on the turbid road to comfort, calm, and choice in the last days of life. Sidney H. Wanzer is the former Ch…
What Dying People Want
Palliative care in the 21st century involves a combination of attentions: the physical, psychological, and spiritual condition of the patient must all be…