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Talking Through Death

Author : Christine S. Davis,Deborah C. Breede
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429014789

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Talking Through Death examines communication at the end-of-life from several different communication perspectives: interpersonal (patient, provider, family), mediated, and cultural. By studying interpersonal and family communication, cultural media, funeral related rituals, religious and cultural practices, medical settings, and legal issues surrounding advance directives, readers gain insight into the ways symbolic communication constructs the experience of death and dying, and the way meaning is infused into the process of death and dying. The book looks at the communication-related health and social issues facing people and their loved ones as they transition through the end of life experience. It reports on research recently conducted by the authors and others to create a conversational, narrative text that helps students, patients, and medical providers understand the symbolism and construction of meaning inherent in end-of-life communication.

Talking About Death Won’t Kill You

Author : Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781773051765

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Talking About Death Won’t Kill You by Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller Pdf

This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dying Death is a part of life. We used to understand this, and in the past, loved ones generally died at home with family around them. But in just a few generations, death has become a medical event, and we have lost the ability to make this last part of life more personal and meaningful. Today people want to regain control over health-care decisions for themselves and their loved ones. Talking About Death Won’t Kill You is the essential handbook to help Canadians navigate personal and medical decisions for the best quality of life for the end of our lives. Noted palliative-care educator and researcher Kathy Kortes-Miller shows readers how to identify and reframe limiting beliefs about dying with humor and compassion. With robust resource lists, Kortes-Miller addresses advance care plans for ourselves and our loved ones how to have conversations about end-of-life wishes with loved ones how to talk to children about death how to build a compassionate workplace practical strategies to support our colleagues how to talk to health-care practitioners how to manage challenging family dynamics as someone is dying what is involved in medical assistance in dying (MAID) Far from morbid, these conversations are full of meaning and life — and the relief that comes from knowing what your loved ones want, and what you want for yourself.

Talked to Death

Author : Stephen Singular
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0425113299

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Alan Berg was the talk-show host all of Denver loved to hate. Nobody escaped his attacks on hypocrisy, bigotry and injustice. Then he was brutally murdered in front of his home, sending the FBI on a nationwide manhunt which ended in the discovery of a violent cult of neo-Nazi supremacists.

Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner)

Author : Michael Hebb
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780738235318

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Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner) by Michael Hebb Pdf

For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed founder of Death over Dinner offers a practical, inspiring guide to life's most difficult yet important conversation. Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our lifetime, few are as important as the ones discussing death—and not just the practical considerations, such as DNRs and wills, but what we fear, what we hope, and how we want to be remembered. Yet few of these conversations are actually happening. Inspired by his experience with his own father and countless stories from others who regret not having these conversations, Michael Hebb cofounded Death Over Dinner—an organization that encourages people to pull up a chair, break bread, and really talk about the one thing we all have in common. Death Over Dinner has been one of the most effective end-of-life awareness campaigns to date; in just three years, it has provided the framework and inspiration for more than a hundred thousand dinners focused on having these end-of-life conversations. As Arianna Huffington said, "We are such a fast-food culture, I love the idea of making the dinner last for hours. These are the conversations that will help us to evolve." Let's Talk About Death (over Dinner) offers keen practical advice on how to have these same conversations—not just at the dinner table, but anywhere. There's no one right way to talk about death, but Hebb shares time—and dinner—tested prompts to use as conversation starters, ranging from the spiritual to the practical, from analytical to downright funny and surprising. By transforming the most difficult conversations into an opportunity, they become celebratory and meaningful—ways that not only can change the way we die, but the way we live.

Death Talk

Author : Margaret A. Somerville
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780773522015

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Death Talk by Margaret A. Somerville Pdf

"Argues that people who promote the legalization of euthanasia ignore the vast ethical, legal and social differences between euthanasia and natural death. Permitting euthanasia, Somerville demonstrates, would cause irreparable harm to respect for human life and society." --Cover.

The Adult Orphan Club

Author : Flora Baker
Publisher : Flora Baker
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781838063504

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The Adult Orphan Club by Flora Baker Pdf

A vulnerable, honest and deeply personal guide to finding your way through grief. Flora Baker was only twenty when her mum died suddenly of cancer. Her coping strategy was simple: ignore the magnitude of her loss. But when her dad became terminally ill nine years later, Flora was forced to confront the reality of grief. She had to accept that her life had changed forever. In The Adult Orphan Club, Flora draws on a decade of experience with grief and parent loss to explore all the chaotic ways that grief affects us, and how we can learn to navigate it. Written with the newly bereaved in mind and packed with practical tips and advice, this book guides the reader through every step of their grief journey and opens up the death conversation in an honest, heartfelt and accessible way. Whether you’re grieving your own loss or supporting someone else through grief, The Adult Orphan Club will show you that you’re not broken, and you’re not alone.

What Do We Tell the Children?

Author : Joseph M. Primo
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426775154

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What Do We Tell the Children? by Joseph M. Primo Pdf

One out of seven children will lose a parent before they are 20. The statistics are sobering, but they are also a call for preparedness. However, pastors and counselors of all types are often at a loss when dealing with a grieving child. Talking to adults about death and grief is difficult; it's all the more challenging to talk to children and teens. The stakes are high: grieving children are high-risk for substance abuse, promiscuity, depression, isolation, and suicide. Yet, despite this, most of these kids grow up to be normal or exceptional adults. But their chance to become healthy adults increases with the support of a loving community. Supporting grieving children requires intentionality, open communication, and patience. Rather than avoid all conversations on death or pretend like it never happened, normalizing grief and offering support requires us to be in-tune with kids through dialogue as they grapple with questions of “how” and “why.” When listening to children in grief, we often have to embrace the mystery, offer love and compassion, and stick with the basics. The author says, "We don’t have to answer the why and how for them, but we can assure our children that God is with us as we suffer. We can do so by doing good for others and pointing out all of those moments when someone has done something good for us. I believe that most of the time that’s as far as we will get, and that is okay."

Talking about Death Won't Kill You

Author : Virginia Morris
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Death
ISBN : 0761112316

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Discusses the importance of the reader's acknowledgement of his or her own mortality in order to prepare for death, and provides information about pain relief, living wills, medical directives, and hospice care.

Let's Talk about Death

Author : Steve Gordon,Irene Kacandes
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781633881129

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Let's Talk about Death by Steve Gordon,Irene Kacandes Pdf

Experts in end-of-life care tell us that we should talk about death and dying with relatives and friends, but how do we get such conversations off the ground in a society that historically has avoided the topic? This book provides one example of such a conversation. The coauthors take up challenging questions about pain, caregiving, grief, and what comes after death. Their unlikely collaboration is itself connected to death: the murders of two of Irene's closest friends and Steve's support in perpetuating memories of those friends' lives and not just their violent ends. The authors share the results of a no-holds-barred discussion they conducted for several years over email. Readers can consider a range of views on complicated issues to which there are no right answers. Letting ourselves pose certain questions has the potential to profoundly change the way we think about death, how we choose to die, and, just as importantly, the way we live. Honest, probing, sensitive, and even humorous at times, the completely open discussions in this book will help readers deal with a topic that most of us try to avoid but that everyone will face eventually.

What Happens When a Loved One Dies? Read-Along

Author : Dr. Jillian Roberts
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459816657

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What Happens When a Loved One Dies? Read-Along by Dr. Jillian Roberts Pdf

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Whether children are experiencing grief and loss for the first time or simply curious, it can be difficult to know how to talk to them about death. Using questions posed in a child’s voice and answers that start simply and become more in-depth, this book allows adults to guide the conversation to a natural and reassuring conclusion. Additional questions at the back of the book allow for further discussion. Child psychologist Dr. Jillian Roberts designed the Just Enough series to empower parents/caregivers to start conversations with young ones about difficult or challenging subject matter. What Happens When a Loved One Dies? is the second book in the series. For more information, visit www.justenoughseries.com.

Start the Conversation

Author : Ganga Stone
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0446672807

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Combining Eastern spiritualism with Western science, the founder of the national charity God's Love We Deliver creates an inspiring, practical, and hopeful approach to facing death. Uplifting without being sentimental, Stone explores such important issues as fear and grief, near-death experiences, survival, and preparation for death.

Always with Me

Author : Donna Sharkey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1772581690

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Always with Me by Donna Sharkey Pdf

How does a parent cope after the death of a child? Each essay in Always With Me: Parents Talk about the Death of a Child reveals the experiences of parents who have lived through the devastation and upheaval of their child's death. Parents describe the maelstrom they face in their inner landscapes, coping strategies, and realigned place in the world. The writers in this collection of stories take on such topics as shock and isolation, despair, guilt, and how they attempt to make sense of their shattered lives. They offer insights into how their grief and loss are worked through, and why certain personal connections are severed, others strengthened. Importantly, they describe how, with lives altered indelibly, they try to press forward to find a new place in the world.

Death Talk

Author : Glenda Fredman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429898358

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Death Talk by Glenda Fredman Pdf

Death Talk is about the healing power of conversation. It gives numerous examples of children and their families being released from the grip of sadness, isolation, and fear by talking about their own experiences of death.

Talking with Children About Loss

Author : Maria Trozzi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0399525432

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Talking with Children About Loss by Maria Trozzi Pdf

Through captivating stories and thoughtful analysis, Maria Trozzi explains how to handle the difficult job of talking with children and adolescents about loss, with discussions about: * How children perceive and interpret events such as death, disability, and divorce * Guiding children through the four tasks of mourning * Helping children face funerals, wakes, and memorial services * Children's fears and fantasies: how they express them, and how to address them * Age-appropriate responses to children's questions and concerns * Talking to children about long-term illness, suicide, family or community tragedy, and other special situations * What to do when children won't talk about loss, and when to seek professional help"The wisdom, authenticity, and sheer presence of the author are evident from page one until the end of the beautifully written book. Terms like 'ground-breaking' and 'innovative' have been triviliazed by overuse. In this case they are deserved." --Stan Turecki, M.D., author of The Difficult Child

Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers

Author : Earl A. Grollman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780807095706

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Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers by Earl A. Grollman Pdf

If you are a teenager whose friend or relative has died, this book was written for you. Earl A. Grollman, the award-winning author of Living When a Loved One Has Died, explains what to expect when you lose someone you love.