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The Grieving Process: Coping with Death

2013

Today on WellCast, we're dealing with a very difficult subject. How do you deal with the death of a loved one? How do you live your life in the face of a life-changing event? We don't have all the answers. See more...

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Grieving the Death of a Mother

A mother’s death can make a shambles of schedules, priorities, agendas, commitments, and, sometimes, even our most important relationships. A mother’s last breath inevitably changes us.

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Harold Ivan Smith
2003
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The Death of a Parent Affects Even Grown Children Psychologically and Physically

Losing a parent is among the most emotionally difficult and universal of human experiences. Most people will experience the loss of their mother or father in their lifetime.

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Joshua A. Krisch
2021
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Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss (20th Anniversary Edition)

Although a mother’s mortality is inevitable no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters, which became an instant classic.

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Hope Edelman
2014
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My Mother Died When I Was 7. I’m Grieving 37 Years Later.

Delayed grief is sometimes triggered by an event later in life, experts say.

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Nicole Johnson
2021
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The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

The Art of Losing offers a human connection when we are grieving. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning.

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Kevin Young
2013
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Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

In this moving and compassionate classic—now updated with new material from the authors—hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years’ experience tending the terminally ill.

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Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley
2012
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What the Death of a Parent Can Teach Us, If We’re Willing to Learn

The death of a parent can send shock waves through your self-perception and reposition the mental space you occupy on the planet. The grief can be life changing.

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Alene Dawson
2018
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The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents

Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood.

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Alexander Levy
2000
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Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds—as has been demonstrated by Joan Halifax’s decades of work with the dying and their caregivers.

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Joan Halifax, Ira Byock (foreword)
2009
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An Introduction to the Death or Loss of a Parent

For most of us, our parents serve as elements of safety and stability, a constant amidst the flux of everyday life. When they die, we lose a tangible piece of that security, which can leave us feeling extremely off balance—even if we knew it was coming due to a long-term illness or extreme old age.

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FindCenter
2022
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Death or Loss of a Loved One