2017
A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.
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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.
Taking into account your own wellbeing as well as the best interests of others, here are some of the most important ways to become a better person.
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The truth is that many of us just don’t know the right words to comfort someone who is dying.
Religion can help many of us move past grief and make sense of tragedy. But according to Reverend Emily C. Heath, religion can often come off as trite rather than insightful.
Talking with those who are dying can be difficult even in the best of circumstances.
This groundbreaking book encourages us to face our fears and engage in an open, honest dialogue about death.
If you have never experienced the death of a child, it's extremely difficult to know what to say to someone facing this type of loss. The death of a child is unnatural, unfair, and tragic.
Four and a half years after the death of my oldest son, I finally went to a grief support group for parents who have lost children.
In a talk that's by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, writer and podcaster Nora McInerny shares her hard-earned wisdom about life and death. Her candid approach to something that will, let's face it, affect us all, is as liberating as it is gut-wrenching.
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This book is comprised of quotations from Bearing the Unbearable, and other sources as well, plus an enormous amount of new material from Dr. Jo.