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By Kathryn Mannix. 2018
Once a familiar and gentle process, death has come to be something from which we shy away, preferring to fight…
it desperately than to accept its inevitability. This book seeks to counter this and show the unexpected beauty, dignity, and profound humanity of life coming to an end. 2018.By Elin Schoen. 1984
Widower of the novelist Iris Murdoch tells an inspirational, painful, and ultimately uplifting story of how he had to grapple…
with his fate as a man by beginning life anew, in his mid-seventies. 2001.By David Kuhl. 2003
Drawing from case studies, Kuhl provides a balanced perspective on caring for the terminally ill. He also offers insight into…
how patients can foster better communication between themselves and their doctors. Besides discussing the physician's account of the clinical aspects of the dying process, Kuhl sensitively examines the harder-to-define psychological and spiritual issues. 2002.By Christophe Fauré. 2004
Fondé sur ses expériences de clinicien, le psychiatre décrit les différentes étapes du deuil et les sentiments qui l'accompagnent :…
colère, culpabilité, dépression, peur ; la compréhension de soi permettant d'optimiser la cicatrisation de la souffrance.By Geneviève Pettersen. 2014
"Madame Chose aborde tous les sujets sans tabous et écorche au passage certaines idées reçues sur la vie à deux.…
Vie et mort du couple, Du dating au divorce, n'est pas un guide pour réussir sa vie amoureuse. Madame Chose y fait plutôt une radiographie du couple québécois et de ses travers, un scan de son quotidien qui, disons-le, finit souvent par avoir raison des meilleurs. " -- 4e de couv.By Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo. 2014
A powerful, raw memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s.…
Even as Metatawabin built the trappings of a successful life, he was tormented by horrific memories. In seeking healing, Metatawabin travelled to southern Alberta. There he learned from elders, participated in native cultural training workshops that emphasize the holistic approach to personhood, and finally faced his alcoholism and PTSD. Now his mission is to help the next generation of residential school survivors. Bestseller. Winner of the 2015 Speaker's Book Award. c2014.By Paul Perry, Melvin Morse. 1993
Millions of people throughout the world have had a near-death experience. The authors present a wealth of evidence from people…
who have returned from death after being 'transformed by the light'. They show how the lives of people who return from the brink of death are usually changed for the better - spiritually and physically - for the rest of their lives. The authors suggest that these extraordinary revelations may alter your view on death and dying. 1993.By Ali Cobby Eckermann. 2012
A memoir that, in bare blunt prose and piercingly lyrical verse, gives witness to the human cost of policies that…
created the Stolen Generations of Indigenous people in Australia. It is a narrative of good and evil, terror and happiness, despair and courage. 2012.By Anne Mullens. 1996
Journalist Anne Mullens considers the question of whether a democratic society can legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. She presents all…
sides in the debate, interviewing experts in Europe and North America, and talking to doctors, ethicists, advocacy groups, and law-makers. 1996.By Elizabeth Collick. 1986
Only the unloved and unloving escape grief. It is the price paid for the love that makes life worth living.…
The book is sub-titled "The Bereavement Journey" and by writing of her own experience and that of others, the author sets out to help people "come through" their grief and to gain support in the strange angers, guilt and frustration that they will find in common with these people; to come through grief to life again on the far side of loss. 1986.By Ty Alexander. 2018
From grief counseling to sharing insightful true stories, Alexander offers comfort, reassurance, and hope in the face of sorrow. In…
the chapters of this soul-touching book, mourners will find meaning and wisdom in grieving and the love that will always remain. 2018.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.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.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.By Duncan McCue. 2016
A memoir of McCue's five months in a hunting cabin with a James Bay Cree family. McCue is Anishinaabe, a…
member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation in southern Ontario. He renders a beautiful sketch of the landscape and culture of the Cree, a nation still recovering from the massive James Bay hydroelectric project of the ‘70s. Frank, funny and evocative, he entwines the challenges of identity for First Nations youth, the sexual frustration and hopeful confusion of the teenage years, and the realities of living in an enduring state of culture shock. 2016.By Lori Arviso Alvord, Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt. 1999
Raised on the reservation near Gallup, New Mexico, half-Navajo Alvord graduated from Dartmouth and then went to Stanford for her…
medical degree. She describes her career as the first Navajo woman surgeon and her belief that integrating tribal ways into traditional western medicine improves healing. 1999.First-hand accounts of Indigenous people's encounters with colonialism are rare, but a daily diary that extends over fifty years is…
unparalleled. Based on a transcription of Arthur Wellington Clah's diaries, this book offers an account of a Tsimshian man who moved in both colonial and Aboriginal worlds. From his birth in 1831 to his death in 1916, Clah witnessed profound change: the arrival of traders, missionaries, and miners, and the establishment of industrial fisheries, wage labour, and reserves. 2011.By Johanna Brand. 1993
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 1976. It took two autopsies and demands from family and friends to uncover that…
Canadian Indian activist Anna Mae Aquash had been killed by a bullet, fired execution-style into the back of her head. Was she murdered by the FBI, or by colleagues in the American Indian Movement? Some descriptions of violence. c1993.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.