Grief Loss and Bereavement

Is There A Way To Mend A Broken Heart?
by eNotAlone.com
Having a broken heart can be really dangerous for health, and in fact, it can lead to a deadly outcome, report U.S. scientists who found why some individuals do suffer from the condition.

Part 1
Closer to the Light
by Melvin Morse, M.D.
The skeptics have had their say; now listen to the experts. In hundreds of interviews with children who had once been declared clinically dead, Dr. Morse found that children too young to have absorbed our adult views and ideas of death, share first-hand

Foreword
Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies
by T.J. Wray
When T.J. Wray lost her 43-year-old brother, her grief was deep and enduring and, she soon discovered, not fully acknowledged. Despite the longevity of adult sibling relationships, surviving siblings are often made to feel as if their grief is somehow

Part 1
How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies
by Therese A. Rando
Mourning the death of a loved one is a process all of us will go through at one time or another. But wherever the death is sudden or anticipated, few of us are prepared for it or for the grief it brings.

It's Time to Get in Line: Part 1
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
by Maggie Callanan, R.N., Patricia Kelley
Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients

Grief: Discovering Something Greater than the Answer to 'Why?'
by Nan Zastrow
We are raised with values and beliefs that influence who we are. We attribute these to our social culture, our religious backgrounds and our educational pursuits. We build a strong code of ethics that reflects our attitudes and our choices in life.

The Wounds of Grief: Inside/Outside
by Nan Zastrow
'What happened to you?' The question appears to be an easy one, but it comes hard when you don't know if you should ask it. I met at least a dozen people between the scene of the my bizarre fall and my destination for care.

One Step at a Time
Through These Doors: A true inspirational story of a family overcoming crisis
by Dwight Alexander
One moment life is normal and in the next you have somehow stepped through a doorway and everything is in pieces. It was a beautiful summer day when Dwight Alexander received the news that his family had been in a deadly car crash.

Change of Heart
Light Through the Crack: Life After Loss
by Sue Mosteller, CSJ.
Leonard Cohen once wrote in a song: 'There is a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in.' Combining revealing memoir and the inspirational stories of others, Sue Mosteller, the executrix of Henry Nouwen's literary estate and an active, well-known

Cancer : Anticipatory Grief, Phases of Grief
by National Cancer Institute
Anticipatory grief is the normal mourning that occurs when a patient or family is expecting a death. Anticipatory grief has many of the same symptoms as those experienced after a death has occurred.

Dear Diary
It Must Have Been Moonglow
by Phyllis Greene
For me, the written word is the quintessential medium. From grocery lists to condolence messages to letters to friends or to the children at camp or for birthdays, it's the most effective way to express myself.

Just Another Widow
It Must Have Been Moonglow
by Phyllis Greene
This afternoon, Mt. Carmel Hospice called for my six-month 'checkup.' How am I doing? they wanted to know. 'Well,' I said. 'I am doing well.' Am I telling the truth, I wondered; what is 'well'? What sorrowing widow can ever really do well, I think.

Denial
The End Is Just the Beginning
by Arlene Churn, Ph.D.
In our community, both regret and denial are often expressed through elaborate funerals and floral displays, expensive caskets, numerous limos, even color-coordinated outfits for the immediate family.

Regret
The End Is Just the Beginning
by Arlene Churn, Ph.D.
Regret has many faces and many meanings. Those who have lost a loved one may regret acts left unperformed or words unspoken. We may regret the loss to ourselves of someone who loved and supported us unconditionally.

Reader's Guide
Mrs. Hunter's Happy Death
by Reverend John Fanestil
It is my great pleasure to introduce Mrs. Hunter to you. When I first read the story of her happy death I was simply overwhelmed. She was like no one I had ever met before, and yet she reminded me of so very many people.

Lessons on Living from People Preparing to Die
Mrs. Hunter's Happy Death
by Reverend John Fanestil
I have known a few people who died with a spirit of apparent nonchalance, but for most the approach of death raises gut-level questions about the true meaning of life. Is there a God? What kind of God?

Introduction
The Empty Room
by Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
The movie The Big Chill begins with the death of a character you never meet, except for a few shots of his body being dressed for burial. As it turns out, this faceless individual is instrumental to the plot.

Introduction
The Grieving Teen
by Helen Fitzgerald
In an earlier book, I wrote about a fifteen-year-old named Laura, whose unhappy situation as a young person whose needs were ignored continues to haunt me, for stories like hers remain largely unaddressed in the many books that have been written about

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

Depression & Acceptance
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., David Kessler
After bargaining, our attention moves squarely into the present. Empty feelings present themselves, and grief enters our lives on a deeper level, deeper than we ever imagined. This depressive stage feels as though it will last forever.