Peters, David W.
Summary: "Accidental injury is the leading cause of death for Americans under forty-five. Those who have caused accidents walk among us. They are us. Episcopal priest David W. Peters unintentionally killed someone in a traffic accident as a young man, and in Accidental, he guides readers through the aftermath of these tragedies toward healing and recovery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 PETKearney, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996
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Summary: "...Finish Strong is for those of us who want an end-of-life experience to match the life we've enjoyed. We know we should prepare, but are unsure how to think and talk about it, how to live true to our values and priorities, and how to make our wishes stick. The usual advice about advance directives and conversations is important but woefully inadequate. This book describes concrete action in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compassion & Choices 2022
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Summary: This intimate and powerful book offers ground-breaking techniques and concrete strategies to help children of any age, such as: Games, activities, and play-based exercises that help children and teens process their emotions when they don't have the words to describe what they are feeling. Inspiring stories from two decades of Rainbows groups will comfort and encourage adults trying to cope and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2003
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Summary: In Grief Day by Day, Jan Warner draws on her own extensive experience and the experiences of the 2 million followers on her Grief Speaks Out Facebook page to offer hope in its most practical form. This book does not look to offer a solution to grief. Rather, it provides supportive, useful guidance to help you create a life in which peace, and even gratitude, can coexist with your grief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Althea Press 2018
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Summary: "Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our lifetime, few are as important as the ones discussing death--and not just the practical considerations, such as DNRs and wills, but what we fear, what we hope, and how we want to be remembered. Yet few of these conversations are actually happening. Inspired by his experience with his own father and countless stories from others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.09 HEBNoel, Brook.
Summary: Explores unexpected death and its role in the cycle of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 NOEWolfelt, Alan.
Summary: This companion workbook to Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart is designed to help mourners explore the many facets of their unique grief through journalling. Ten essential touchstones for mourners are covered, including being open to the presence of loss, dispelling misconceptions about grief, embracing the uniqueness of grief, seeking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Companion Press 2004
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Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: High Tide Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 VANWolfelt, Alan D.
Summary: Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Companion Press 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Australia 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1stBooks 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 NOWBernstein, Judith R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guilford Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 BEVKübler-Ross, Elisabeth.
Summary: One of the most famous psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of an interdisciplinary seminar on death, originated and conducted by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. In On Death and Dying, Dr. Kübler-Ross first introduced and explored the now-famous idea of the five stages of dealing with death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1997
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Summary: A cancer survivor and farmer writes about the struggles of his childhood and life as a parent, the resilience of nature, and nature's cycles of life and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub Co 2014
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Contents: Loss changes you forever -- The nomad -- The memorialist -- The normalizer -- The activist -- The seeker -- Transforming your grief: finding your personal path to healing -- Hope for the future -- Support for healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trumpeter 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 BERBlack, Sue M.
Summary: "Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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Contents: The death -- The funeral home -- The service -- Grief counseling and therapy -- Housekeeping -- Probate: an overview -- The probate process -- Estate planning -- Appendixes : A checklist -- Funeral practices -- A sample basic will -- Small estate affidavit -- The primary provision of a Living trust -- A bouquet of quotations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Explores the important role that dreams can play for those who are in an end-of-life process, those providing support, and loved ones whose lives are touched by the transition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 2015
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Summary: Flint Larson has known when he was going to die since he was eight because of the Half-Life Institute, and he is spending the last forty-one days quietly with his divorced parents; September is a vibrant aspiring scientist who wants to cure "half-life", especially since she has met Flint--but their time together is getting short.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997