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Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Writing an ethical will, a document that includes stories and reflections about your past, is an ancient tradition. It can include joy and regrets, and ultimately becomes both a way to remember a loved one who is gone and a primer on how to live a better, happier life. Beloved Rabbi Steve Leder has helped thousands of people to write their own ethical wills, and in this intimate book helps us write our own"--
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of his father's untimely death and his family's indecision over what to do with the remains, Thomas Mira y Lopez became obsessed with the type and variety of places where we lay the dead to rest. The result is a singular collection of essays that weaves together history, mythology, journalism, and personal narrative into the author's search for a place to process grief. Mira y Lopez explores unusual hallowed grounds--from the world's...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the death of a loved one through the parallel experiences of other species of animals, similar to Elin's treatment of nature in You Are Stardust and problem-solving in Wild Ideas. As with Elin's previous picture books, A Last Goodbye will combine simple, poetic text with a "big idea"--in this case, the idea that death is a natural part of our lives and that many species experience sadness and mourning when their loved ones are...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
" A comic, bittersweet tale of family evocative of The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Everything Is Illuminated Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch and his family would like to mourn the passing of his mother, Rachela, with modesty and dignity. But Rachela, a famous Polish e;migre; mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin, is rumored to have solved the million-dollar, Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. Rumor also has it that she spitefully...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Daniel is a decent young man who is married to Jane. They live at his father's home. When his father dies, it is up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who botches his work; his famous, but selfish brother...
7) The vigil
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A young man agrees to fulfill the duties of a 'shomer,' the ritualistic practice of looking after a dead body over the course of one night. He soon finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
Author
Publisher
Missouri History Museum Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"What's the most important garment in a woman's closet? More often than not, the answer is 'the little black dress.' For decades, fashion magazines have touted the LBD as the perfect solution to almost every fashion crisis. Dressed up or down, with flats or heels, statement jewelry or a subdued jacket, the little black dress can be worn anywhere, for any occasion. Where did the little black dress come from? And how did black become the color of choice...
9) The Queen
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005, [2007]
Language
English
Description
The Queen begins with a familiar epigraph "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" - Henry IV, Part II. The action of the film takes place during the week following the death, on August 31, 1997 of Diana, Princess of Wales. One of its accomplishments, courtesy of adroit use of newsreel and other contemporary footage, is to remind viewers of the deep sadness that surrounded that event. It is also about the divergent and potentially ruinous ways the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
After the untimely death of Prince Albert, the queen and her nation were plunged into a state of grief so profound that this one event would dramatically alter the shape of the British monarchy. For Britain had not just lost a prince: during his twenty year marriage to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert had increasingly performed the function of King in all but name. The outpouring of grief after Albert{u2019}s death was so extreme, that its like would...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Trillas
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
La muerte de un ser querido es siempre un evento doloroso. Ante ello, cada persona debe ser consciente de sus emociones, no evitar el dolor, sino elaborar su propio proceso de duelo, lo que le permitirá trascender la pérdida y aceptar el cambio que esta genera y que afectará las relaciones con sus familias y amigos. Este libro fue escrito para ayudar a las personas a reconocer y manejar sus emociones; ... Ver más Ocultar La muerte de un ser querido...
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