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As someone dies: a handbook for the living
By Elizabeth Johnson. 1995
This guidebook gives practical advice on how to take care of ourselves during the dying process and helps us to…
release the guilt and emotional trauma associated with the death of family members, friends, and pets. Includes short poems and sayings. 1995.Chicken soup for the grieving soul: stories about life, death, and overcoming the loss of a loved one (Chicken Soup For The Soul Ser.)
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen. 2003
Accounts of people who have lost a loved one. Each story details the particular death and explains how the author…
dealt with grief and found the courage to go on. Sections include "Final Gifts," "Coping and Healing," "Special Moments," and "Living Again." 2003.Hiding out: a memoir of drugs, deception, and double lives
By Tina Alexis Allen. 2018
Tina Alexis Allen grew up in 1980s suburban Maryland in a house ruled by her stern father, Sir John, an…
imposing, British-born authoritarian who had been knighted by the Pope. When Sir John discovered Tina was attracted to women, he too revealed he was gay. Their second lives brought father and daughter closer, but little did Tina know, darker secrets lingered below the surface. 2018.Honor girl: [a graphic memoir]
By Maggie Thrash. 2017
Maggie has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in…
the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing--until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and, most surprising of all (at least to Maggie), female counselor named Erin. But Camp Bellflower is an impossible place for a girl to fall in love with another girl. When it seems as if Erin maybe feels the same way about Maggie, it's too much for both Maggie and Camp Bellflower to handle--let alone understand. For senior high readers. 2017.How we die: reflections on life's final chapter
By Sherwin B Nuland. 1994
In hopes of removing mystery from dying and making it less frightening, a Yale medical professor explains the biological and…
clinical aspects of death. He describes six causes of death which he asserts to be representative of universal processes, portrays patients, and muses about care and dignity. The examples are heart attack, Alzheimer's disease, murder, AIDS, cancer, and old age. Bestseller 1994.Getting through the night: finding your way after the loss of a loved one
By Eugenia Price. 1983
An inspirational guide for those who are grieving the loss of a loved one. Offers hope for survivors to understand…
and accept their loss, to weather the dark night of grief, and to be renewed with the joy of life in the morning. 1983.Familiar spirits: a memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
By Alison Lurie. 2001
Novelist Alison Lurie reminisces about meeting American poet James Merrill (1926-1995) in his youth and becoming friends with him and…
his companion, David Jackson. Discusses their homosexuality, the importance of the Ouija board in their relationship, and their problems as they aged. 2001.Death and dignity: making choices and taking charge
By Timothy E Quill. 1993
A physician describes the decision-making process of one of his patients and his role in assisting her suicide. Quill reveals…
how he came to believe that medicine does not properly address the needs of the dying. He outlines alternative choices that he believes a patient can make in consultation with his or her doctor and argues for the need to challenge the status quo that makes one choice an illegal act. 1993.Cleo: how a small black cat helped heal a family
By Helen Brown. 2010
Helen Brown wasn't a cat person, but her nine-year old son Sam was. A week after Helen agreed to let…
Sam have a kitten, Sam was killed in a road accident. Not long after this, a little black kitten was delivered to the family's doorstep. Helen was ready to send her back, but Sam's younger brother, Rob, identified with the kitten who'd also lost her brothers. Stroking her, it was the first time Helen had seen him smile since Sam's death. There was no choice, the kitten -- dubbed Cleo -- had to stay. Cleo's immense character slowly taught the family to laugh again, giving them hope of getting back to normal. 2010.Cease: a memoir of love, loss, and desire
By Lynette Dawn Loeppky. 2014
The memoir tells the story of a young woman who has decided to leave an eight-year relationship. As Lyn begins…
to plan her exit, her partner Cecile suddenly falls ill. In a tumultuous drop towards a complicated end, the young woman is forced to become sole caregiver to the woman she had been planning to leave. Set against the "family values" of rural Alberta, this is a story about how we love and why we stay, especially in a time of crisis. 2014.Confessions of a fairy's daughter: growing up with a gay dad
By Alison Wearing. 2013
Alison Wearing led a carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little…
more complex than she had realized. When her father came out of the closet in the 1970s, when homosexuality was still taboo, it was a shock to everyone in the quiet community of Peterborough, Ontario — especially his wife and children. 2013.Cemetery stories: creepy graveyards, embalming secrets & the life of a corpse after death
By Katherine M Ramsland. 2001
Boy erased: a memoir
By Garrard Conley. 2016
A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded…
in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an institutionalized Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out in search of his true self and forgiveness. By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community. At times heart-breaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds. 2016.Bereavement: studies of grief in adult life (Pelican books)
By Colin Murray Parkes. 1998
This is the third edition of a classic study into bereavement, which aims to answer questions like: how is bereavement…
affected by age, gender, manner of death, personal psychology and culture; what are the signs of pathological grieving which can lead to mental illness; and how can carers provide genuine help without interfering with the painful but necessary "work" of mourning? New to this edition are discussions of the many forms of loss and recent research by the author. 1988.Accueillir la mort: questions et réponses sur la mort et les mourants
By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Philippe Beaudoin. 1998
Comme le titre l'indique, ce livre présente les questions souvent posées par les différents acteurs qui, à titres divers, sont…
touchés par le sujet : patients incurables, entourage, personnels médical et social. L'auteure y répond en fonction de son savoir de praticienne et n'hésite pas à traiter des dimensions sociales, philosophiques et spirituelles sous-jacentes. 1998.AIDS activist: Michael Lynch and the politics of community
By Ann Silversides. 2003
Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an…
early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in 'The Body Politic' spoke to the gay communities of Toronto, New York, and San Francisco; his organizing efforts meant change and hope. The author also furnishes a snap-shot history of how the AIDS crisis unfolded and of some of the heroic responses to it, and provides an emphasis on the politics of the gay community's response. Some strong language. 2003.Accepted: how the first gay superstar changed WWE
By Bertrand Hébert, Pat Patterson. 2016
When Pat Patterson was 17 years old, he was asked to leave his home after telling his parents he was…
in love... with a man. Moving from Montreal to the United States in the 1960s, barely knowing a word of English, when homophobia was widespread, Pat lived in the super-macho world of pro wrestling. In this memoir, pioneer and creative savant Patterson recalls the trials and tribulations of climbing to the upper ranks of sports-entertainment - as a performer and, later, as a backstage creative force. 2016.4 regards sur la mort et ses tabous: soins palliatifs, euthanasie, suicides assistés, et expériences de mort imminente
By Jean-Jacques Charbonier, Annie Babu, Émilie Barraud. 2015
" Comment se positionner face à l'euthanasie et au suicide assisté ? Que sont les soins palliatifs, comment sont-ils organisés…
et qui peut en bénéficier? Comment communiquer avec une personne dans le coma ? Peut-on croire les récits extraordinaires de celles et ceux qui ont connu une expérience de mort imminente ? En quoi ces histoires hors du commun peuvent-elles nous aider à briser les tabous de la mort ? À la lumière de leur vécu et des résultats d'une enquête d'opinion qu'ils ont menée auprès de 3 000 personnes, les auteurs exposent avec passion leurs idées, leurs choix ainsi que leurs convictions convergentes ou divergentes , offrant au lecteur un large champ de réflexion pour se faire sa propre opinion. Cet ouvrage brûlant d'actualité relève le défi de réunir et de mettre en perspective des domaines qui, le plus souvent, s'ignorent ou se combattent les soins palliatifs, l'euthanasie, le suicide assisté et les EMI... " -- 4e de couv.Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
By Mitch Albom. 1997
Some twenty years after college, Mitch Albom rekindles his relationship with a former professor who is terminally ill. His weekly…
visits with his dying mentor become a colloquium on the meaning of life, and Albom gains insight into "love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and, finally, death." Bestseller. 1997.Éloïse: letters to a lost child
By Loïse Lavallée, Christopher Stone. 2002
Loïse Lavallée's daughter was severely injured by a drunk driver when she was a seven-month-old; for the next twelve years…
Éloïse needed constant medical attention, numerous corrective surgeries and was totally dependent in every aspect of daily life. A day before she was to turn thirteen years old she died quietly at home, in her mother's arms. For the next two years Loïse wrote letters to her daughter that reflect the long road she traveled from complete despair to taking the first hopeful steps to rebuilding her own life. 2002.