Death and Dying

The power of thought – a curse or a cure?
by Peta Heskell
How powerful is thought and the way we transmit it to others? If, as Dossey meticulously documents, we can influence others with our words and prayers, what lesson is here for the healing professions? Dossey is a medical doctor. Most of his experience is

The Call to Connection
Remembering Mother, Finding Myself: A Journey of Love and Self-Acceptance
by Patricia Commins
The loss of a mother is one of the most traumatic experiences of a woman's life. At any age, a mother's death may leave a daughter with feelings of anger, abandonment and profound sadness that taint the way she views herself, her world

The Urgency of Living
by Leslie Karen Lobell, M.A.
I was just starting to get to know Ivy. We had several mutual friends, and we had been out with them, en masse, a couple times for dinner. Ivy and I seemed to take an instant liking to one another. We whispered and laughed, becoming engrossed in our own c

You Can't Sing If You're Dead
by Jan Tincher
I am dedicated to showing people how to live their lives successfully. However, I felt that death should be dealt with, too. We have an opportunity to make one last contribution. Let's make sure we make it our best. Are you going to die . . . soon?

The Stories of Love are Stronger than Death
by Nan Zastrow
If you are bereaved, gather your stories. Find opportunities to open your heart and let the memories pour out. Allow others into your lives to explore the forests and find the remnants of a beautiful life that once was. Chuckle over the good times.

Denial, Part 1
Good Grief
by Lolly Winston
A brilliantly funny and heartwarming debut about a young woman who stumbles,then fights to build a new life after the death of her husband.Lolly Winston has written an astonishing first novel. In Good Grief she takes a sad situation and artfully finds the

What Kaddish Means
Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew
by Anita Diamant
Beyond language, Kaddish is more than the sum of its words. First and foremost, it is an experience of the senses. Like music, there is no understanding Kaddish without hearing and feeling it and letting go of the words.

Curtain Call
Remember Me When I'm Gone: The Rich and Famous Write Their Own Epitaphs and Obituaries
by Larry King
ALAN ALDA: Here Lies Anonymous-Our Greatest Author. ALAN ALDA is a multi-award-winning actor, writer, and director. He first appeared on film in 1962 in Gone Are the Days. He is perhaps best recognized for his portrayal of wisecracking Army surgeon

My Son
Raising Cole : Developing Life's Greatest Relationship, Embracing Life's Greatest Tragedy: A Father's Story
by Marc Pittman, Mark Wangrin
Marc Pittman was raised rough. He was a builder by trade; he got in bar fights; he wrestled bears. But that didn't stop him from becoming the kind of father he had always wanted. People said he was lucky, but Marc Pittman knew the truth: he worked hard

Rocky & Helen, Part 1
Seriously
by Lucia Nevai
The local insurance agency was housed in a former ice cream stand at the edge of Highway 6 south of the hamlet of Dustin, New York. All four glass sides as well as the roof were angled slightly-intentionally, though the angles chosen looked dumb

Survivors of Death
Death, Grief, and Mourning
by John S. Stephenson, Ph.D.
Through our examination of the grief process, we have been able to develop an understanding of the psychological ramifications of death. In discussing mourning, we examined contemporary American society's response to loss, including its normative

Dobie Gillis Williams
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
by Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ
Brave and fiercely argued new book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we're executing innocent men? Two cases in point are Dobie Gillis Williams, an indigent black man with an IQ of 65, and Joseph Roger O'Dell.

Children
In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living
by Nancy Cobb
Curiosity underscores every stage of life. Without it we would be a pretty dull bunch. Yet when it comes to death and grief, even the most curious among us clam up. Carl Jung believed that the negation of life's fulfillment is synonymous

Bearing the Burden: Families in Distress
The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
by Marilyn Webb
In 1990, a man whom I will call D. Hale Cobb III died at the age of seventy-two of Alzheimer's disease. Hale had been the chief financial officer of a large corporation, known around New York City for his hilarious sense of humor and his flaming red hair.

Part One
The Rooms of Heaven: A Story of Love, Death, Grief, and the Afterlife
by Mary Allen
I always think of Iowa as a place where strange and magical things happen. Not sleight of hand, card tricks, pull-a-rabbit-out-of-a-hat kind of magic-nothing as literal and obvious as that. What I'm thinking of is vaguer, subtler, harder to pin down

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D.
Among the older writers startling movements of a corpse have given rise to much discussion, and possibly often led to suspicion of premature burial. Bartholinus describes motion in a cadaver.

The Creators
The Book Of Eulogies
by Phyllis Theroux
If there is any one reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished.

Introduction
Morrie: In His Own Words
by Morrie Schwartz
His name: Morris Schwartz. 'But call me Morrie,' he insisted, even to Ted Koppel, who obliged on three Nightline specials in 1995, half-hour interviews which helped make this wise old man a national icon.

Introduction
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
by Studs Terkel
I've courted death ever since I was six. I was an asthmatic child. With each labored breath, each wheeze, came a toy whistle obbligato. At my bedside, my eldest brother, to comfort me, would whistle back 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles,' in cadence with my

Fall
Living a Year of Kaddish: A Memoir
by Ari L. Goldman
The best-selling author of The Search for God at Harvard continues his spiritual quest in this heartfelt and poignant account of the year he spent saying kaddish for his father. The day after Ari Goldman celebrated his fiftieth birthday his father died of