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Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. But when Rivs became ill and was put into coma at the height of the pandemic, the painful memories of her childhood--watching her father die of cancer--came flooding back. Written with lush lyricism, Steph's account of how this crisis forced...
Publisher
Lourdes Portillo
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
A first and thorough look at the Mexican celebration of the dead, the sacred days when the souls of the departed return to visit the living. Tracing the Days of the Dead tradition from its roots in Indian culture to its manifestations in contemporary Chicano communities, this unconventional and visually arresting documentary contemplates the loving and sometimes humorous Mexican cultural attitudes toward "that constant companion," death.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people-morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how to grieve them once they've passed. E.B. Bartels has had a lot of pets-dogs, birds, fish, tortoises. As varied a bunch as they are, they've taught her one universal truth: to own a pet is to love a pet, and to own a pet is also-with rare exception-to lose that pet in time. But while we have codified traditions...
Author
Publisher
Central Recovery Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After four decades of training volunteers to sit at the bedsides of the dying, psychologist and Shanti founder Charles Garfield has created an essential guide for friends, family, and healthcare professionals who want to ease someone's final days but don't know where to begin. Garfield presents practical advice about finding connection, honesty, and peace while being of the greatest service to those at the end of life. By focusing on the reciprocal...
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important. Accompanying a palliative care team, Moreira Marques travelled to Trás-os-Montes, a forgotten corner...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
His mother's last word was his name. His father's was "Wonderful." Together they inspired the title for this true story of love and redemption. Bob Morris was always the entertainer in his family, but not always a perfect son. When he finds his parents approaching the end of their lives, he begins to see his relationship to them in a whole new light and it changes his way of thinking. How does an adult child with flaws and limitations figure out...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Parents who suffer the death of a child are overwhelmed, often immobilized by the depth and scope of their grief. When a Child Dies is written in a simple, straightforward manner, offering information, comfort and hope for those who believe that none is possible. Claire Aagaard has written this book from a unique perspective-that of a professional grief counselor and as a parent with her own history of child loss. It is an honest yet gentle guide,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to infiltrate public consciousness, sales of The Plague, the classic novel by French philosopher Albert Camus, skyrocketed. At the same time, the virus's toll surged exponentially. Amid the harrowing loss, many sensed a glimmer of possibility--the potential for radical empathy wrought by shared experience--even as the death-dealing divisions of class, race, gender, and citizenship were underscored like...
Author
Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"El libro que te ayudará a superar la muerte de tu animal de compañía. Perder a un ser querido nunca es fácil. Al fin y al cabo, ¿cómo podemos pasar página tras la marcha de alguien que ha estado tan presente en nuestra vida? ¿De que manera hemos de superar el no volver a ver a un amigo, a un miembro de nuestra familia? Aunque a menudo se le resta importancia, la muerte de un animal de compañía sigue siendo un momento muy duro para quienes...
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
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Description
"There is a vast literature on death and dying, but there are few reliable accounts of the ways in which we die. The intimate account of how various diseases take away life, offered in How We Die, is not meant to prompt horror or terror but to demythologize the process of dying to help us rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita." "Though the avenues of death - AIDS, cancer, heart attack, Alzheimer's, accident, and stroke - are common, each...
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"When we are thrust into the role of caregiver for a loved one who is in the process of dying, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Yet it's a situation millions of us face every year with virtually no sort of preparation or guidance. With Graceful Exit, Dr. Gustavo Ferrer offers an all-in-one resource for anyone tasked with managing the end-of-life care of a loved one" -- Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
La pérdida de un ser querido, la ruptura de una relación, el abandono definitivo de algo que consideran valioso son expresiones de una misma realidad. Son fenómenos que hundirnos en la tristeza, el aislamiento e incluso empujarnos a la desesperación. En estas páginas, Jorge Bucay nos invita a reflexionar sobre uno de los desafíos más difícil pero, al mismo tiempo, más importantes que todos los seres humanos debemos enfrentar: el proceso de...
Author
Publisher
The Kamlak Center
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Miracle of Death takes you on a personal journey that will forever change the way you think about death and life. Over a period of years Betty Kovacs, her husband and their son experienced dreams and visions of future events that completely changed their lives. They learned that life and death, sorrow and joy, and matter and spirit are inseparably intertwined. The Miracle of Death comes to us at a time when transformation is necessary for our...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"For those who don't believe in an afterlife, the wisdom of the ages offers four great consolations for mortality: that death is benign and good; that mortal life provides its own kind of immorality; that true immorality would be awful; and that we experience the kids of losses in life that we will eventually face in death. Can any of these consolations honestly reconcile us to our inevitable demise? In this timely book, Andrew Stark tests the psychological...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At the age of sixty-six, after thirty-five years of marriage, Gregory Curtis finds himself a widower. Tracy--with whom he fell in love the first time he saw her--has succumbed to a long battle with cancer. Paralyzed by grief, agonized by social interaction, Curtis turns to watching magic lessons on DVD--"a pathetic, almost comical substitute" for his evenings with Tracy. To break the spell, he returns to the place he had the "best and happiest times"...
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Dera White's I Will Not Die Alone is a hilarious, feel-good story about the end of the world. Featuring illustrations by Joe Bennett, it is a story full of realistic self-love affirmations for all of us who are just trying to get by, until we die. "It's funny, it's dark, and there's a lion wearing pants. If you only read one more book before the world ends, make it this one."-Brooke Barker, New York Times bestselling author of Sad Animal Facts "Oh...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Sylvie Snow knows the pressures of expectations: a woman is supposed to work hard, but never be tired; age gracefully, but always be beautiful; fix the family problems, but always be carefree. Sylvie does the grocery shopping, the laundry, the scheduling, the schlepping and the PTA-ing, while planning her son's Bar Mitzvah and cheerfully tending her husband, Paul, who's been lying on the sofa with a broken ankle. She's also secretly addicted to the...
Author
Publisher
ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing."--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In Dream New Dreams, Jai Pausch shares her own story for the first time: her emotional journey from wife and mother to full-time caregiver, shuttling between her three young children and Randy's bedside as he sought treatment far from home; and then to widow and single parent, fighting to preserve a sense of stability for her family, while coping with her own grief and the challenges of running a household without a partner. Jai paints a vivid, honest...
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