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By Dara Culhane Speck. 1987
ON JANUARY 22, 1979, an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. The…
events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, anecdotes, and public records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, provincial and federal ministries of health, and national media, because their private tragedy held implications that reached far beyond one child, one physician, one town, and even one century.By Rachel Blythe Kodanaz. 2013
While exploring the hardships of loss by providing daily encouragements to help a griever through their personal journey, this book…
focuses on all aspects of life. It embraces and emphasizes the happy, healthy days of life with your loved one and how the loss has changed that life while integrating the loss into daily lives providing healing tools and suggestions.By Elise Dirlam Ching, Kaleo Ching. 2014
Tapping the tremendous healing power of Qigong and the expressive arts, this beautiful book invites the reader to contemplate the…
continuum of living, dying, and renewal within this life and beyond. The stories, Qigong meditations, and journaling/art processes, including collage and maskmaking, are invitations for you to engage them for your own healing, transformation, and wisdom. Authors, artists, healers, and teachers of Qigong and art, Elise and Kaleo Ching draw on their 23 years of experience working with others on their paths of personal transformation to present an approach to living and dying that is saturated with wisdom, compassion, and understanding. Through their work, the authors have witnessed many personal journeys of dying, transformation, rebirth--facing terminal illness or loss of a loved one, letting go of old lifestyles and embracing new, connecting with past lives and future dreams. The stories and processes in this book will inspire a wide range of people interested in using Qigong practices and meditations, journaling, and art for self-cultivation, mindfulness, spiritual awareness, and healing: artists, clergy, spiritual seekers, psychotherapists, hypnotherapists, social workers, chaplains, hospice workers, teachers, students and practitioners of transformative, shamanic, and healing arts.From the Trade Paperback edition.g Reflection Questions: Chris' Story / Conversation with Chris / Journaling Reflection Questions: Transformation and Your Life's Purpose / Guided Journey: Your Inner Sanctuary and Guide / Journaling and Art: Your Inner Sanctuary and Guide / Jessica: Courting Death / Reflections on Jessica's Story / Journaling Reflection Questions: Jessica's Story / Conversation with Jessica / Journaling Reflection Questions: Your Experience of Suicide / Journaling and Art: The Dance of Death and Life / Journaling Reflection Questions: Your Experience of Past Lives / Journaling and Art: Your Personal Chain of Being / Journaling and Art: Your Spiritual AutobiographyPart Two: Creativity and Your Pilgrimage. Why Create Art? / Kaleo: Aysel / Kaleo: Jean-Paul / Journaling: You and Creativity / Journaling: Creativity and Your Lineage / Death and Rebirth Cycles in Life / Elise: Teekkona / Journaling: Your Recent Experience of Loss / Journaling and Art: Your Death/Rebirth Map / Life/Death Guided Journey and Collage / Guided Journey and Collage 1: Your Life Review / Guided Journey and Collage 2: Looking over the Threshold / Sacred Awareness Guided Journey and Collage / Guided Journey and Collage: Your Mandala of Sacred Awareness / Your Personal Oracle Cards / Guided Journey and Collage: Your Personal Oracle / Journaling and Collage: What Is Dying and What Is Being Born in You Today? / Journaling and Art: Your Oracle Card Vessel / Your Changing Face / Guided Journey and Art: Your Changing Face / Selected Bibliography / Books / Films / The Authors / Illustrations / Bea: Song of the Heart / Elizabeth: Mask of My Father / Transition / Tomoko: Dialogue with Self / Rashidah: Spirit MaskFrom the Trade Paperback edition.By Frederic Tate. 2011
I have several reasons for writing a book on death and dying. Over the years I have continuously observed well-meaning…
people say really insensitive things. I have been guilty of it myself. People are not often intentionally cruel when someone has died. It is just that we are bit taught what to say and the painful emotions often get in the way. If you view death as a failure, it makes it even more difficult. I believe that I am qualified to write this book not so much because of my education as a psychotherapist and that I have a doctorate, but from sitting and holding the hands of people as they die. I have worked with children and adults, people with terminal and life-threatening illnesses, whose who were clinically dead and revived, and as volunteer for hospice. Most importantly, I have buried people I love, friends and family. My hope is that the reader will be better prepared to talk to those who are dying and the family and with friends left with broken hearts. I believe that I am able to make the topics of grieving (emotions) and mourning (the public expression of emotions) a bit more palatable for the average individual. If we can be less fearful in talking about death, we are likely to be more compassionate. My best teachers have been people who were dying. It is through them that I have learned to live. If this book results in making dying a bit easier for just one person, I will consider it success. - Dr. Frederic B. TateBy Rainer Rilke, Ulrich Baer. 2018
From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet reflections on grief and loss collected and…
published here in one volume for the first time A great poet s reflections on our greatest mystery Billy Collins Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke s voluminous never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends and acquaintances The Dark Interval is a profound vision of the mourning process and a meditation on death s place in our lives Following the format of Letters to a Young Poet this book arranges Rilke s letters into an uninterrupted sequence showcasing the full range of the great author s thoughts on death and dying as well as his sensitive and moving expressions of consolation and condolence Presented with care and authority by master translator Ulrich Baer The Dark Interval is a literary treasure an indispensable resource for anyone searching for solace comfort and meaning in a time of grief Advance praise for The Dark Interval Even though each of these letters of condolence is personalized with intimate detail together they hammer home Rilke s remarkable truth about the death of another that the pain of it can force us into a deeper level of life and render us more vibrant Here we have a great poet s reflections on our greatest mystery Billy Collins As we live our lives it is possible to feel not sadness or melancholy but a rush of power as the life of others passes into us This rhapsodic volume teaches us that death is not a negation but a deepening experience in the onslaught of existence What a wise and victorious book Henri ColeBy Laurie Kilmartin. 2018
An honest, irreverent, laugh-out-loud guide to coping with death and dying from Emmy-nominated writer and New York Times bestselling co-author…
of Sh*tty Mom Laurie Kilmartin.Death is not for the faint of heart, and sometimes the best way to cope is through humor. No one knows this better than comedian Laurie Kilmartin. She made headlines by live-tweeting her father’s time in hospice and her grieving process after he passed, and channeled her experience into a comedy special, 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad. Dead People Suck is her hilarious guide to surviving (sometimes) death, dying, and grief without losing your mind. If you are old and about to die, sick and about to die, or with a loved one who is about to pass away or who has passed away, there’s something for you. With chapters like “Are You An Old Man With Daughters? Please Shred Your Porn,” “If Cancer was an STD, It Would Be Cured By Now,” and “Unsubscribing Your Dead Parent from Tea Party Emails,” Laurie Kilmartin guides you through some of life’s most complicated moments with equal parts heart and sarcasm.By Nina Norstrom. 2016
Allowing us to learn lessons, let go of toxicity, and gain insight, relationship can play a powerful role in our…
lives. They are formed with people, alcohol, animals, battlefields, diseases, drugs, environments, and even our emotions. Whether toxic or nontoxic, relationships are an integral component of daily living. Author Nina Norstrom lost her child to a disease, but that wasn't the only toxic relationship she endured. In this book, she explores the effects that her relationships with grief, pain, trauma, and forgiveness have had on her life. This tale exposes a mother's struggle to escape her world of toxicity, her journey out of the clutches of diseased relationships, and the shoe prints the experiences have left on her family's history. This story in its raw form projects a remarkable voice to the heroic fight, courage, and bravery gained when striking back to wipe out toxic relationships. Its message reveals that life brings many challenges and that each challenge provides lessons to be learned. This book is not intended to be a blueprint for dealing with diseased relationships. It's about the shoe prints: those symbols of life's journey that are left by our experiences. "Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints that Matter" is an insightful and inspiring personal story of one family's journey through toxic relationships.By Allan Kellehear. 2014
This unique book recounts the experience of facing one's death solely from the dying person's point of view rather than…
from the perspective of caregivers, survivors, or rescuers. Such unmediated access challenges assumptions about the emotional and spiritual dimensions of dying, showing readers that -- along with suffering, loss, anger, sadness, and fear -- we can also feel courage, love, hope, reminiscence, transcendence, transformation, and even happiness as we die.A work that is at once psychological, sociological, and philosophical, this book brings together testimonies of those dying from terminal illness, old age, sudden injury or trauma, acts of war, and the consequences of natural disasters and terrorism. It also includes statements from individuals who are on death row, in death camps, or planning suicide. Each form of dying addressed highlights an important set of emotions and narratives that often eclipses stereotypical renderings of dying and reflects the numerous contexts in which this journey can occur outside of hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices. Chapters focus on common emotional themes linked to dying, expanding and challenging them through first-person accounts and analyses of relevant academic and clinical literature in psycho-oncology, palliative care, gerontology, military history, anthropology, sociology, cultural and religious studies, poetry, and fiction. The result is an all-encompassing investigation into an experience that will eventually include us all and is more surprising and profound than anyone can imagine.By Rob Sheffield. 2007
What Is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question throughout the ages, and in the modern era, they…
have come up with many different answers. According to Western philosopher Pat Benatar, love is a battlefield. Her paisan Frank Sinatra would add the corollary that love is a tender trap. Love hurts. Love stinks. Love bites, love bleeds, love is the drug. The troubadours of our times agree: They want to know what love is, and they want you to show them. But the answer is simple: Love is a mix tape.In the 1990s, when "alternative" was suddenly mainstream, bands like Pearl Jam and Pavement, Nirvana and R.E.M.--bands that a year before would have been too weird for MTV- were MTV. It was the decade of Kurt Cobain and Shania Twain and Taylor Dayne, a time that ended all too soon. The boundaries of American culture were exploding, and music was leading the way. It was also when a shy music geek named Rob Sheffield met a hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl named Renée, who was way too cool for him but fell in love with him anyway. He was tall. She was short. He was shy. She was a social butterfly. She was the only one who laughed at his jokes when they were so bad, and they were always bad. They had nothing in common except that they both loved music. Music brought them together and kept them together. And it was music that would help Rob through a sudden, unfathomable loss.In Love Is a Mix Tape, Rob, now a writer for Rolling Stone, uses the songs on fifteen mix tapes to tell the story of his brief time with Renée. From Elvis to Missy Elliott, the Rolling Stones to Yo La Tengo, the songs on these tapes make up the soundtrack to their lives. Rob Sheffield isn't a musician, he's a writer, and Love Is a Mix Tape isn't a love song- but it might as well be. This is Rob's tribute to music, to the decade that shaped him, but most of all to one unforgettable woman.From the Hardcover edition.By David Horowitz. 2009
After losing a loved one, "pay attention to the ways in which your relationship continues."So advised Sarah Horowitz in an…
interview she gave the day before her unexpected death. In A Cracking of the Heart, David Horowitz explores the legacy of his extraordinary daughter's short life, and narrates his quest for a deeper understanding of the child he lost.A remarkable woman and gifted writer, Sarah was afflicted with a birth condition that, while complicating and ultimately shortening her life, never affected her dreams. From an early age, she displayed inspiring courage in facing her own difficulties and boundless compassion for the underserved and overlooked in many communities, from an autistic niece in her own family to uneducated children in Africa.A Cracking of the Heart chronicles the separation of father and daughter through political and familial conflicts, and their slow reunion. Alternately searing and uplifting, it reconciles what could have been with what is, taking the reader through a father's love, frustration, admiration, and grief, to what lies beyond.What are the different theories of grief? What skills do you need for effective counselling? How can you support people…
experiencing loss and grief? This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to counselling and supporting people experiencing loss and grief. It introduces the different models and theories of grief, how theory relates to practice and what the essential skills are, and how to work with people in practice. Working with families, understanding diversity and assessing clients are all covered, as well as a chapter on personal and professional development. Case studies and real life examples demonstrate skills in action, and each chapter concludes with notes for trainers. This essential guide will help all those working with people suffering loss and grief to understand grief and how to help. Counsellors, bereavement support volunteers, palliative care nurses, hospice volunteers and students in these fields will all find this an invaluable resource. It can be used as a training guide as well as a resource for individuals, both as a learning tool and for continuing professional development.By March Knights Nadle. 2006
After 50 years in the funeral business, 80-year-old grandmother-undertaker June Knights Nadle has seen it all -- at least all…
of what goes on before, during, and after life's ultimate challenge. In Mortician Diaries, she combines equal doses of charm, humanity, humor, and reality to tell it like it is on this taboo subject. A kind of Prairie Home Companion set in a mortuary, the book features memorable stories of regret -- "I wish I had kissed him on the morning he had the accident" -- and renewal, as the lesson of facing life's last great event is learned, or not. Some of the accounts here are funny, some sad. Some are haunting in their strangeness as they reveal the many ways in which people cope. Along the way, the reader is drawn into Nadle's own life story as an unconventional woman who devoted herself to the dead and to those they left behind.By Susanne C. Knittel. 2014
The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are…
suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public's self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny asthat which resists reification precisely because it cannot be assimilated to dominant discourses of commemoration. Focusing on the problems of representation and reception, the book explores memorials for two marginalized aspects of Holocaust: the Nazi euthanasia program directed against the mentally ill and disabled and the Fascist persecution of Slovenes, Croats, and Jews in and around Trieste. Reading thesememorials together with literary and artistic texts, Knittel redefines "sites of memory" as assemblages of cultural artifacts and discourses that accumulate over time; they emerge as a physical and a cultural space that is continually redefined, rewritten, and re-presented. In bringing perspectives from disability studies and postcolonialism to the question of memory, Knittel unsettles our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the culture of contemporary Europe.By Susan A Berger. 2009
In this new approach to understanding the impact of grief, Susan A. Berger goes beyond the commonly held theories of…
stages of grief with a new typology for self-awareness and personal growth. She offers practical advice for healing from a major loss in this presentation of five basic ways, or types, of grieving. These five types describe how different people respond to a major loss. The types are: * Nomads, who have not yet resolved their grief and don't often understand how their loss has affected their lives * Memorialists, who are committed to preserving the memory of their loved ones by creating concrete memorials and rituals to honor them * Normalizers, who are committed to re-creating a sense of family and community * Activists, who focus on helping other people who are dealing with the same disease or issues that caused their loved one's death * Seekers, who adopt religious, philosophical, or spiritual beliefs to create meaning in their lives Drawing on research results and anecdotes from working with the bereaved over the past ten years, Berger examines how a person's worldview is affected after a major loss. According to her findings, people experience significant changes in their sense of mortality, their values and priorities, their perception of and orientation toward time, and the manner in which they "fit" in society. The five types of grieving, she finds, reflect the choices people make in their efforts to adapt to dramatic life changes. By identifying with one of the types, readers who have suffered a recent loss--or whose lives have been shaped by an early loss--find ways of understanding the impact of the loss and of living more fully.By Silas Henderson, Brother Francis Wagner, Ann Rohleder, Ronald Knott, Keith McClellan. 2015
Sometimes life just seems to get the best of us. The wounds can cut very deep on occasion: addiction, divorce,…
grief, feeling unloved and unwanted, and so many others. And the scars may never entirely heal. However, our Christian faith urges us to recall that Jesus rose from the tomb with visible but transformed wounds, demonstrating that nothing in life is wasted in the economy of God's mercy. Getting Through the Hurt offers timely reflections on how God's grace gently permeates our wounds to give them meaning and transforms them into the means of discovering new life. Ultimately, God asks us to trust that His goodness will secure victory over all distress, division, and death, and this book serves as a guide for that journey of faith.By Joanne Huist Smith. 2014
For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a…
random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith had no idea how she would keep herself together and be strong for her three children--especially with the holiday season approaching. But 12 days before Christmas, presents begin appearing on her doorstep with notes from their "True Friends." As the Smiths came together to solve the mystery of who the gifts were from, they began to thaw out from their grief and come together again as a family. This true story about the power of random acts of kindness will warm the heart, a beautiful reminder of the miracles of Christmas and the gift of family during the holiday season.By Scott Cutler Shershow. 2014
The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such…
as Terry Schiavo. Ina"Deconstructing Dignity," Scott Cutler Shershow offers a powerful new way of thinking about it philosophically. Focusing on the concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life, he employs Derridean deconstruction to uncover self-contradictory and damaging assumptions that underlie both sides of the debate. Shershow examines texts from CiceroOCOsa"De Officiis"ato KantOCOsa"Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals"ato court decisions and religious declarations. Through them he reveals how arguments both supporting and denying the right to die undermine their own unconditional concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life with a hidden conditional logic, one often tied to practical economic concerns and the scarcity or unequal distribution of medical resources. He goes on to examine the exceptional case of self-sacrifice, closing with a vision of a societyOCoone whose conditions we are far from meetingOCoin which the debate can finally be resolved. A sophisticated analysis of a heated topic, a"Deconstructing Dignitya"is also a masterful example of deconstructionist methods at work. a"Bereavement counselor Ann Hisle s book of stories poems and quotations illustrates spiritual practices that strengthen and prepare…
us to meet and adapt to the inevitable losses of daily living The practices help us navigate through these losses so there can be findings The book is comforting and challenging personal and professional inspiring and practical The eleven spiritual practices chapters can be read independently for reflection or sequentially as a spiritual journey This book is a unique gem -- Helen Fitzgerald author of The Mourning HandbookLosing and finding are equally fundamental to life - and loss is not the end of the story Psychotherapist and bereavement counselor Ann Hisle offers sound advice and uplifting spiritual practices that help people cope with loss Hisle s inspiring stories of hope along with her selections of thought-provoking quotations form the foundations for deeper living greater loving and a more powerful sense of humanity Starting with an acknowledgement of the need for both good and bad luck the author discusses how we can learn from our suffering the value of sharing our experiences and the appreciation of apparent coincidences She considers the innate rewards of forgiving and asking forgiveness letting go and lightening up and opening to a higher power In addition Hisle explores how our personal histories can instruct us the balance of mental physical and spiritual needs and the pulling together of collective wisdom for personal growth Anyone who has struggled with accepting loss and moving beyond heartbreak toward a more balanced perspective will appreciate this book s practical and philosophical encouragement Ann Hisle has written a wonderful book about life loss and coming to terms with grief It is not a panacea for grief or a superficial fix it book but it is insightful thoughtful and profound -- Books and BBQBy Sissela Bok, R G Frey. 1998
The moral issues involved in doctors assisting patients to die with dignity are of absolutely central concern to the medical…
profession ethicists and the public at large The debate is fueled by cases that extend way beyond passive euthanasia to the active consideration of killing by physicians The need for a sophisticated but lucid exposition of the two sides of the argument is now urgent This book supplies that need Two prominent philosophers Gerald Dworkin and R G Frey argue that in certain circumstances it is morally and should be legally permissible for physicians to provide the knowledge and means by which patients can take their lives One of the best-known ethicists in the US author of Lying Moral Choice in Public and Private Sissela Bok argues that the legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide would entail grave risks and would in no way deal adequately with the needs of those at the end of their lives least of all in societies without health insurance available to all All the moral and factual issues relevant to this controversy are explored The book will thus enable readers to begin to decide for themselves how to confront a decision that we are all likely to face at some point in our livesBy Randie Clark. 2012
The death of your child is devastating No parent feels that he or she should outlive his or her…
child However the sad fact is that every minute around the world some 15 children die according to the WHO The psychological and emotional impact following sudden and traumatic death can inhibit parents grief and without appropriate treatment develop into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD When Your Child Dies provides grief-stricken parents with the tools to navigate the grieving process and addresses the challenges of the intrusion of the media the justice system medical system and coroners Grieving parents will learn how to reduce anxiety and depression and promote healthy self-soothing identify and address issues that linger and cause emotional pain following the child s death and incorporate their loss into their lives in healthy ways There are suggestions for talking with surviving children how to handle the impact on family and social relationships how to foster a continued loving relationship with the dead child s memory as well as a comprehensive list of resources and reading for ongoing support In addition to professional backgrounds Nagel and Clark have both experienced the traumatic loss of a child and speak with compassion parent-to-parent