Bringing together the views of numerous distinguished scholars, Children and Death investigates the child's concept of death from both academic and clinical points of view. The contributors have aimed at developing practical guidelines for a multidisciplinary approach to the care and support of the dying child, the child's family unit, and staff who work with dying children. The findings presented here are also applicable to care of children with life-threatening illness. Topics discussed include: children's concepts of death; emotional impact of disease; perspectives on children's death and dying; and coping with a child's death.

This beautiful companion journal to the bestseller "Remembering With Love" provides the bereaved with a place to record and sort through their feelings and memories of the deceased, while offering insight via inspirational advice and quotations.

This is the Spanish edition of the world's bestselling art therapy book for grieving children. This book was designed to teach basic concepts of death and help children understand and express the many feelings they have when someone dies.

Twelve effective therapeutic healing techniques to heal your grief from the loss or death of a loved one or special pet. Learn the techniques I teach my therapy clients to heal from the pain, anger, and sadness of death and loss to regain a sense of peace and happiness in your life. Follow the easy-to-read instructions for releasing painful emotions, moving your life forward, and keeping the spirit of the deceased individual alive in your heart. Included in this valuable healing book are directions for guiding children through the painful emotions of death, divorce, and separation. Carolyn Flynn is a practicing Licensed Professional Counselor. She is helping individuals, couples, and families heal their relationships and improve their lives.

Sandy Peckinpah's sixteen-year old son woke up with a fever and was dead the next morning of bacterial meningitis... her life changed forever.She found herself in the depths of unimaginable despair. Then, someone gave her a journal, and writing opened her journey of self-discovery in learning how to live life without her beautiful child. Words illuminated her path of discovery and she began to document the things that helped her, and others like her, to find resilience. This is a practical, inspirational guide to coping with the many facets of bereavement; learning how to talk about your loss, the aftermath of sorrow, handling fear and anger, helping your living children adjust, strengthening your marriage, experiencing miracles, and the promise that you will regain a quality of life where you'll feel joy once again.If you've lost a child or know someone who has, Sandy's story is one you'll relate to and find comfort in knowing you're not alone.

Darlene Machtan, author of "Conversations With My Mother," shares heartfelt, intimate, and often humorous one-sided conversations with her deceased mother. The topics are so universal that grieving adult children will easily relate and find comfort.

The issues of: carrying on new family responsibility and roles major conflicts among siblings a parent's remarriage and the decline and death of other significant individuals

are all "discussed" between mother and daughter with such honesty and emotion the reader seems to be an integral part of that conversation.

Stories of love, laughter, disagreements, dancing, friendships, and futures will leave readers answering Machtan's question .,."or is it only in our family that such stories abound?" with a resounding, "No."

"So..What's Next?" is a compilation of interviews of ordinary people (ordinary meaning no any specific training in death or dying) and what they think happens after death. Perhaps equally as important, is "why" we believe and hope as we do. This book is not a study. It is simply a description of hopes and beliefs that there will be some sort of a reconnection with those we have loved and lost. Reflections in this book are from people who range in age from 16 to 93. Age does not seem to be significant in life-after-death thoughts. Religion does not necessarily appear to be the driving factor in thoughts of life- after-death. It's about loving and missing our friends and relatives that we want deperately to see again. Our thoughts and faith are our only hope. For the most part, this book is happy, inspirational and full of hope that life on this earth is only the beginning.

'Vincent van Gogh's last words: La tristesse durea--the sadness will never go away. It will not go away. But it will change.' Sometimes grief can be overwhelming --especially over the holidays. The world is moving forward and celebrating life, but for grievers darkness pervades the holiday.This special gift book edition of bestseller A Decembered Grief is designed to guide you on a journey beyond that darkness and get out on the other side. You will learn that the holidays aren t about presents or cookies or church services-- they are about relationships. Harold Ivan Smith will teach you how to alter traditions instead of abandoning them, appreciate the grief styles of others, and befriend your grief instead of dread it. The holidays can be tough. This book can help.

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse

Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz – just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy – collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk.

After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine and Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha’s Vineyard. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humor, and tenderness, as they spent their days writing and their evenings cooking family dinners or watching the sun set with friends at the beach. But all of this ended abruptly when, on Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf.

Three years later, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Australia with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. In a shack on a pristine, rugged coast she often went days without seeing another person. There, she pondered the various ways in which cultures grieve and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony’s death.

A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life.

Surrounded by Angels shares the deeply compelling story of a mother, father, and their tiny baby daughter, and their journey through grief and eventual acceptance of comfort in the face of death. In December 2004, Angela Amoroso and her husband Drew suffered an unimaginable loss. Their prematurely-born infant daughter, Isabella, dressed in a tiny snowflake outfit, died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) while in Angela's arms. As the horrible news spread, Angela and Drew could barely function as they tried to come to grips with the tragedy. Eventually, they worked their way far enough down the path of grief to realize that Isabella's passing could fulfill a deep calling for them to help others. Becoming stronger each day, they continued to make Isabella's premature birth and transition into eternal life an opportunity bring deeper meaning into both their lives as well as the lives of others. Their inspiring story will teach anyone suffering a loss to accept that love knows no bounds. Baby Isabella's life ended much too quickly, but her short life left an enduring message. Every time a lonely soul realizes that all things are possible, even in the face of heartbreak and unthinkable loss, her spirit lives on.

'Fascinating... life affirming' Times Literary Supplement 'Without exaggeration, an awe-inspiring achievement' Nigella Lawson Chosen as an Irish Times Book of the Year In this profoundly moving and remarkable book, journalist Hayley Campbell explores society's attitudes towards death, and the impact on those who work with it every day. 'If the reason we're outsourcing this burden is because it's too much for us,' she asks, 'how do they deal with it?' Would facing death directly make us fear it less? Inspired by her own childhood fascination with the subject, she meets embalmers and a former death row executioner, mass fatality investigators and a bereavement midwife. She talks to gravediggers who have already dug their own graves and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear. Through Campbell's incisive and candid interviews with people who see death every day, she asks: Does seeing death change you as a person? And are we all missing something vital by letting death remain hidden? 'Moving, funny, and liable to unexpectedly cause me to tear up' Neil Gaiman 'Essential, compassionate, honest' Audrey Niffenegger

A stunning literary memoir from an exceptional Irish writer and comedian Marise was nine when she first realized there was trouble, 14 when her Dad tried to end it all, and 23 when he finally succeeded. In a turmoil of conflicting emotions Marise runs - from Dublin to Amsterdam to Los Angeles, leaving a trail of sex and self-destruction in her wake. Until finally, she finds herself facing what she's become in a California psych ward, a girl imploding through trying to make sense of her father's suicide. As she retells her unravelling, from child to adult, Marise strips back her identity and her relationship with her father, layer by layer, until she starts to understand how to live with him, years after he has gone. Written beautifully, with wit and unflinching honesty, Marise has produced one of the most profound coming-of-age memoirs of recent years, a stunning new voice in Irish writing.