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Title: I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One by Brook Noel, Pamela D. Blair ISBN: 1-891400-27-4 Publisher: Champion Press Ltd Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (37 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: EXCELLENT, well researched, helpful and comforting
Comment: This is an excellent book on death, grief and loss. Sooner or later death will touch everyone's life. We may not all react the same but most will experience the stages of loss and grief from denial to acceptance. It can be a long often agonizing and lonely road to recovery. Sadly the impact of loss and death can leave many with a loss of their own will to live.
This book does an excellent job of addressing a topic that most people choose not to address until they are directly confronted. I am an author of a children's book on death/loss/grief titled "ANGEL STACEY" and I personally know the impact on the loss of a spouse and raising young children who have lost a parent. This book is for the adult who struggles with their own feelings of loss and often has other family members to consider and to console.
Grief has a tendency to creep up in the odd hours of the day and the night and can be overwhelming to those experiencing loss. To have a title, a book that you can reach out and grab at any hour offers comfort. I wish this title had been available sooner as it often was a book that comforted and calmed me most during my own deep dark hours of despair.
Written from knowledge and from a place of understanding and guidance is sure to make this book a winner and a timeless treasure for anyone who has known a deep loss. It cannot take the pain and hurt away but it will help in the knowlege that those feelings are normal. Also that others have experienced the same and made it back to a seemingly normal existence. Death changes lives and changes people forever, many will grow and change for the better. I was never so humble and in essence never so pure and so good as I was immediately following the loss of my first husband and later the loss of my oldest daughter. It was only later with the anger and ultimately acceptance that I found myself once again on level ground. Death or loss can uproot your entire existence. This book is excellent and necessary.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very helpful
Comment: I received this book as a gift after suffering the sudden, tragic loss of a friend in a car accident. I read this book in one sitting. Not only is the book full of helpful resources and guidance, I felt the wisdom and warmth only those who've experienced sudden death of a loved one in their lives could impart.
Also, I found the sections on "loss of friends" and other unusual topics (e.g., loss of siblings, and the like) very helpful. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who's been hammered by the unexpected, tragic loss of a loved one.
Rating: 3
Summary: Some helpful stories, but a little "out there" for my taste
Comment: While reading the various first-hand accounts was helpful at times, I found myself put off by the author's frequent references to mediums, psychics, and "dream communication." I realize some people believe in this kind of stuff, but for me personally its just another form of escapism, and right now I'm trying to get back on track after the devastating loss of my mother. I don't think its helpful to try to convince myself that I can somehow communicate with her again. My dreams of my mother are my mind dealing with this loss, and I can welcome them and appreciate them without turning it into some delusion of actual contact with the "afterlife." That said, there was comfort to be taken from the stories of the losses experienced by others. It was good to be reminded that I'm not the only one going thru this, and I'm not crazy, just going thru a natural grieving process. I'm not sorry I read this book, but perhaps I would have checked it out from the library, as opposed to purchasing it. Surprisingly, the book I'm benefitting the most from is "Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames" by Thich Nhat Hanh. Its not specifically geared to healing after the loss of a loved one, but the techniques and philosophy are applicable and beneficial.
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Title: Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies by Marta Felber ISBN: 0877939322 Publisher: Ave Maria Press Pub. Date: 25 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies by Therese A. Rando, Therese, A., Ph.D. Rando ISBN: 0553352695 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul: Stories About Life, Death and Overcoming the Loss of a Loved One (Chicken Soup for the Soul) by Jack Canfield, Mark Hansen ISBN: 1558749020 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief by Martha W. Hickman ISBN: 0380773384 Publisher: Perennial Currents Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: When There Are No Words: Finding Your Way to Cope With Loss and Grief by Charlie Walton ISBN: 0934793573 Publisher: Pathfinder Publishing of California Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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