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"What in the world am I going to say?" is one of our first thoughts when a friend loses a loved one. Everyone feels unprepared and at a loss. A Friend In Grief: Simple Ways to Help gives you the words and actions to reach out and support your friend with confidence and compassion. Author Ginny Callaway draws on her personal experience and the stories of the people she interviewed to give you the honest answers you're looking for. Those who have lived...
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According to the World Health Organization, almost seven hundred thousand people attempt suicide every year. Of every one thousand suicide attempts, approximately seventy-two ultimately die of suicide. It is the tenth leading reason of death in the United States and sometimes even higher in other countries. Death by suicide also has no one particular type of victim; it affects everyone from the seemingly happy and successful movie stars, rockstars,...
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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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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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In what was the most devastating event of their lives, Tom and Pat Monahan lost their nine-year-old grandson, Tommy, in a house fire in December of 2007. This unimaginable tragedy rocked their lives with pain and sorrow beyond description, of a kind and strength they had never dreamed of.
As a way of dealing with this unspeakable grief, Pat Monahan practiced what she preached as a professional bereavement counselor: she began journaling her feelings...
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Death is the only certainty we have in this life. This reality is not depressing; it is just a fact. We learn more about the end of life's cycle, make decisions as the book suggests, and continue to live fully. You do not have to think about it all the time. You just have to prepare; which will guarantee the care and treatments we want to receive when we are close to the end of life. Our family should only honor our decisions, not to decide for us....
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Turning Away from Suicide
Marlene Harper has written a book designed to help parents, grandparents and guardians give their children a mental and emotional lift when it's really needed and providing the tools to do it. She's talking about children who have had some earth shattering experiences and need to find their way out of the darkness and into the light. She also talks about the epidemic issue of suicide in general and child and teen suicide...
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Confronting the "little griefs" that can occur in the course of a lifetime, this handbook seeks to relieve the inevitable burden of loss. Taking the "wilderness experience" into account-being disconnected from oneself and the outside world-this guide presents 12 vital questions, the answers to which encourage the choice between deciding to live and letting sadness take control. Delving into the possibilities behind integrating sorrow into one's life,...
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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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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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Women and grief
Death is always sudden. It rips people out of their usual routine and turns their life upside down from one second to the next. In death, it makes no difference whether the bereaved have been able to prepare themselves for the death of a loved one for some time or whether the news hits them suddenly and unexpectedly. When someone close to you dies, it always feels as though the rug has been pulled out from under your feet. Sure, it's...
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#1 The stoplights are out on Wilshire and all along San Vicente approaching Cedars-Sinai. I am driving with my hazards on so the cars behind me don't honk. Hal is sitting next to me, padded with pillows so the seatbelt doesn't press against his abdomen. I learned this trick after my C-section when our twin daughters were in the NICU after being born six weeks premature.
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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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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 Grief is a gateway into the world of the living. It leads us back into a world that is vivid and radiant. It requires us to live with a level of openness and vulnerability to the joys and sorrows of the world.
#2 Grief is not just a period in our lives, but an ongoing conversation that accompanies us throughout life. We must learn to carry our grief and not collapse...
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Almost every religious mythology contains the primordial motif of death and rebirth and portrays the posthumous journey of the deceased following death. Myths of the afterlife exist in all cultures, including that of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans and Celts and continue to manifest in living faiths such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Although human consciousness has evolved over time, the mystery of...
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Beyond the Skies of Blue and Pink is a follow-up to K. L. Nelson's first book A Life Spiritually Guided by Faith, Daisies, and Sky Blue Pink. After the heart-wrenching loss of her husband, K. L. Nelson has spent the last three years soul-searching for who she is without him and what her destination will be now that she is on her own. K. L. Nelson shares a compelling story of how her view of the world around her has changed so dramatically after such...
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Farewell Planning with Love is an easy-to-follow prescription on the subject of final wishes. This publication covers essential education and preparation to understanding everything you need to know to make your final wishes known to those you love, helping them make final decisions at a time filled with pain and sorrow.
Linda wrote Farewell Planning with Love- Protecting Those We Leave Behind to provide a frankly captivating, easy-to-understand...
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The Grieving Parent's Book of Hope is a comprehensive and compassionate journey down the road of grief toward healing for parents who have lost a child. The book helps take the reader away from the lonely path of lost hope to a life once again filled with meaning and purpose. It is written from the intimate firsthand experience of a mother who has lost her child and holds the reader in a continual warm embrace. What makes this book unique is that...
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