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The woman said yes: encounters with life and death : memoirs
By Jessamyn West. 1976
Writer tells how her Quaker mother, Grace, nursed her through tuberculosis after the sanatorium gave up on her. Grace taught…
both author Jessamyn and Jessamyn's sister, Carmen, to "say yes to the life in their lives," and yes to death when that life is over. After Grace's death, it is Jessamyn who helps Carmen deal with inoperable cancer. 1976.The wheel of life: a memoir of living and dying
By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. 1998
The author traces the events that shaped her life intellectually and spiritually - events which led her to explain the…
ultimate truth that death does not exist but is a transformation. From her work in war-ravaged Poland to her pioneering counselling of the terminally ill, her seminars and discussions with people who have been revived after death, we learn how each experience provided her with a new piece of the puzzle. 1998.The undertaking: life studies from the dismal trade
By Thomas Lynch. 1997
Twelve essays on death and grief and their effect on the living with the insight of a poet who is…
also a funeral director. In "Words Made Flesh," Lynch recounts the dissolution of a poet's second marriage, the death of love, and the role of a poem in the birth of new love. In "The Golfatorium," he contemplates combining a cemetery with a golf course. c1997.The last lecture
By Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow. 2008
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how…
he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family. 2008.The inheritance of shame: a memoir
By Peter Gajdics. 2017
Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to “cure” him of his…
homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdics was under the authority of a rogue psychiatrist who controlled his patients, in part, by creating and exploiting a false sense of family. Juxtaposed against his parents’ tormented past--his mother’s incarceration and escape from a communist concentration camp in post-World War II Yugoslavia, and his father’s upbringing as an orphan in war-torn Hungary--Gajdics explores the universal themes of childhood trauma, oppression, and intergenerational pain. 2017.Ike's mystery man: the secret lives of Robert Cutler
By Peter Shinkle. 2018
This Cold War narrative takes listeners from top secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages…
of a powerful man's intimate diary to bring new dimension to our understanding of the inner workings of the Eisenhower White House. 2018.In search of pure lust: a memoir
By Lise Weil. 2018
When Lise Weil came out in 1976, lesbian desire was the pulsing center of an entire way of life, a…
culture, a movement. The air throbbed with possibility. But after fifteen years of torrid but ultimately failed relationships, Weil had to admit that desire was also a conduit for childhood wounds--and it tended to trump love, over and over again. When a friend invited her to attend a Zen retreat in the mid-'80s, she was desperate enough to say yes. Her first day of sitting zazen was mostly hell--but, smitten with the (female) roshi, she stuck with it. Ultimately, the dive into Zen practice became a turning point in her quest for love. 2018.Ce que les mourants m'ont enseigné: l'apprentissage de la vie au seuil de la mort
By Hélène Giroux. 2015
Notre société a peur de la mort. Elle la fuit, la rejette, l'aseptise et se hâte de la vivre lorsqu'elle…
croise son chemin. Elle est pourtant une étape incontournable que nous allons tous traverser. Et surtout, elle peut être riche d'enseignement, car la vie et la mort sont deux notions inséparables. Pour Hélène Giroux, accepter et côtoyer cette dimension mystérieuse du parcours humain lui permet de développer un regard différent sur la vie. Devenue accompagnatrice auprès des mourants, elle réalise rapidement que la mort peut être une formidable école de vie et un puissant appel à vivre plus consciemment. Depuis, les moments qu'elle passe auprès des gens en fin de vie sont, à ce jour, ses instants les plus nourrissants dans sa quête de bonheur et du sens de l'existence. Ces mourants qu'elle accompagne lui transmettent, sans même sans rendre compte, de précieuses leçons de vie, tels l'importance du moment présent, la résilience, la compassion, l'unicité, l'espoir, le don de soi et l'amour, pour n'en nommer que quelques-unes. Elle nous les partage à travers cet ouvrage, en souhaitant qu'elles puissent nous inspirer dans notre quête du bonheur et de la sérénité. 2015.Jimmy Neurosis: a memoir
By James Oseland. 2019
Before James Oseland was a judge on Top Chef Masters, he was a teenage rebel growing up in the California…
suburbs. Diving headfirst into the churning mayhem of punk, he renamed himself Jimmy Neurosis and journeyed into a vibrant underground world of visionary musicians and artists. With humor and verve, Oseland brings to life the effervescent cocktail of music, art, drugs, and sexual adventure that characterized the end of the seventies. Through his account of how creativity saved his life, he tells a thrilling and uniquely American coming-of-age story. 2019.Les morts nous parlent
By François Brune. 1988
Ce livre tente d'offrir une véritable synthèse de la vie dans l'au-delà. Pour la première fois, un prêtre et un…
théologien, le père François Brune, prend réellement en considération l'ensemble des témoignages recueillis a ce jour lors de communications avec les morts. Ces témoignages et ces textes, souvent inexploités, sont mis en relation avec les textes mystiques des différentes traditions. 1988.Nouvelle lumière sur la vie après la vie
By Raymond A Moody. 1977
Considères comme cliniquement morts, puis ressuscités par la technologie moderne, des hommes et des femmes rapportent de cette aventure des…
souvenirs qui se ressemblent étrangement. Le Dr. Moody a recueilli plus d'une certaine de témoignages. 1977.Advises overcoming grief by transforming it into positive action. Discusses how children, men, and women mourn differently; explains when to…
seek professional help; and offers suggestions for remembering a loved one. 2001.But not to lose: a book of comfort for those bereaved
By Austin H Kutscher. 1969
Le deuil et la vie
By Bernard Sindon. 1997
Mourir dans la dignité: quand un médecin dit oui
By André Comte-Sponville, Catherine Leguay. 2000
La mort expliquée à ma fille ((Folio junior ; 1189).)
By Emmanuelle Huisman-Perrin. 2002
Essais sur l'histoire de la mort en Occident du moyen age ((Points. Histoire ; 31).)
By Philippe Ariès. 1975
Savoir mourir
By Michel Coquet. 1986
À partir de l'essence des enseignements des sages de toutes les écoles traditionnelles, sans négliger toutes les données de la…
médecine actuelle qui ne font qu'éclairer les enseignements ésotériques, l'auteur pressent ici une synthèse du problème de la mort, qui devient en fait celui de la vie. (Pour les inities.) 1986.Widower
By Scott Campbell, Phyllis R Silverman. 1987
First-hand accounts from 20 widowers who describe in depth their reactions to the death of their spouses. Provides a practical…
guide for the bereaved as well as insight into self-help programs and how they can ease the pain. c1987.Uncommon will : the death and life of Sue Rodriguez
By Lisa Hobbs Birnie, Sue Rodriguez. 1994
Written in collaboration with Sue Rodriguez and published soon after her death in February 1994, "Uncommon will" chronicles the years…
following Rodriguez's diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Birnie covers Rodriguez's legal battles for assisted suicide, and the physical and private torment she suffered before her death. c1994.