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Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Leanne Friesen thought she knew a lot about bereavement. But it was only when her own sister died from cancer that she learned what grieving people need. In these pages, Friesen writes with vulnerability, wisdom, and even wit about stark and sacred lessons learned at deathbeds and funerals. When we lose someone, what we need most is grieving room"--
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There are so many ways to bury the dead. In an autobiographical series of essays, The Loved Ones explores the deaths of four family members across three generations: an inexplicable double murder, a fatal car accident, a long illness, and a conscripted solider killed in action. Piece by piece, each essay explores the death a loved one in a collage of vignettes: the loss, the aftermath, the funerals, and the rituals used to say goodbye to the body....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Alexander Batthyány's Threshold is the first major account of terminal lucidity: the remarkable return of clarity and cognition at the end of life. Terminal lucidity is a relatively common but poorly understood phenomenon. Near the end of life, many people--including those who are comatose, or have suffered brain injuries or strokes, or have been silenced by mental illness or deep dementia--experience what seems a miraculous return. They regain...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Raymond Moody and Paul Perry reveal that consciousness survives after the death of the body. Featuring in-depth case studies, the latest research, and eye-opening interviews with experts, Proof explores everything from common paranormal signs to shared-death experiences, and much more.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
""No matter how much I enjoyed parenthood, I found myself having to accept its fundamental truth: that nothing ever turns out quite as you'd expect." It was a journey that most parents would hope to avoid: a son born with a congenital heart defect, a fateful decision to take a family trip abroad, and an emergency hospitalization that left them stranded on the other side of the world with no obvious way home. Despite these difficult circumstances,...
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
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Lesbian Death, Mairead Sullivan probes the perception that lesbian status is in retreat, exploring the political promises-and failures-of lesbian feminism and its usefulness today. Sullivan reads how lesbian is conceptualized in relation to death from the 1970s onward, arguing that lesbian offers disruptive potential and offering a fresh perspective on her value for feminist and queer projects"--
Author
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
El duelo nos acompaña durante toda la vida. En el proceso de madurar, dejamos atrás creencias y comportamientos. Perdemos posesiones y nos vemos obligados a abandonar ideas acerca de nosotros mismos. Y sí, también tenemos que despedirnos de amigos, compañeros de vida y amados miembros de la familia. ¿Cómo afrontar el dolor de la pérdida sin perdernos a nosotros mismos? Planteado al modo de un taller en cinco sesiones, El camino del duelo aborda...
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