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What to Say to Someone Who Is Dying

By Candace Rotolo — 2020

The truth is that many of us just don’t know the right words to comfort someone who is dying.

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Life’s Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace When a Loved One Is Dying

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.

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Charles Garfield
2017
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War

One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—known as Chick—was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now they watched as antiwar protesters turned on the troops themselves.

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John "Chick" Donohue, J.T. Molloy
2021
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Loving Your Friend Through Cancer: Moving Beyond “I’m Sorry” to Meaningful Support

“It’s cancer.” When you hear the two words you dread most from someone you care about, you know at once that your friend’s life has been turned upside down. Whether she’s a good friend, a best friend, or just an acquaintance, you want to be supportive.

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Marissa Henley
2024
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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C. S. Lewis
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What Do I Say? Talking and Praying with Someone Who Is Dying

Talking with those who are dying can be difficult even in the best of circumstances.

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Margrit Anna Banta
2014
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There Is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love

The creator of the viral hit “Empathy Cards” teams up with a compassion expert to produce a visually stunning and groundbreaking illustrated guide to help you increase your emotional intelligence and learn how to offer comfort and support when someone you know is in pain.

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Kelsey Crowe, Emily McDowell
2017
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Fabulous Friendship Festival: Loving Wildly, Learning Deeply, Living Fully with Our Friends

Create new friendships, deliciously celebrate the ones you have, practice new ways to be a better friend . . . with others and yourself.

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SARK
2007
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Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity

Though SARK has empowered millions to live their creative dreams, manage their businesses, and savor personal connections, the deaths of her mother and cat and the end of a treasured relationship tested her ability to walk her talk.

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SARK
2010
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Redefined - Jean Oelwang

Jean Oelwang, president and CEO of Virgin Unite, spent fifteen years interviewing sixty-five prominent pairs, including Ben and Jerry, Leah and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Rosalynn and President Jimmy Carter.

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Redefined with Zainab Salbi
2022
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Coping with Life Challenges (2nd Edition)

Readers seeking ideas for improving their lives will find Coping with Life Challenges, 2/E, highly accessible and empowering. Kleinke synthesizes a wealth of information that researchers have discovered about coping. First he introduces “coping” and defines important terms.

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Chris L. Kleinke
2024
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Death and Dying