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Rory was a streetwise kid from one of the city’s toughest housing projects. Ricky, the pretty boy athlete, escaped the mean streets of north St. Louis to become a mentor and coach. Joseph was born to teenage parents, as was his younger half-brother, Little T. Neither would live past 19. Brenda, the no-nonsense mother-in-the-law, played the role of confidant and critic until breast cancer ravaged her body and spread to her brain. All died within a span of 19 months. Four of them in the same year, two violently.

Stepping-Stones is a compilation of heartfelt stories of courage, love, and letting go, taken from the journal pages of a hospice caregiver who spent two decades at the bedside of dying patients. The book encompasses end-of-life care, quality of life, patient autonomy, and spiritual diversity in a compassionate and thought-provoking way. A moving and gentle account of what we all must one day face.

Sympathisch, kompetent, menschlich nah und humorvoll - so kennt man Dr. Johannes Wimmer aus Internet und TV. Ein schwerer Schicksalsschlag stellt das Leben des beliebten TV-Mediziners von einem Moment auf den anderen auf den Kopf. Nur wenige Monate nach der Geburt erkrankt seine kleine Tochter schwer. Die Familie verliert den Kampf um das Leben des Kindes. Hautnah und sehr persönlich teilt Dr. Wimmer nun, wie er und seine Familie es schaffen, sich von der Faust des Universums nicht erdrücken zu lassen, auch wenn ihnen im Schmerz manchmal die Luft zum Atmen fehlt.

A hilarious diary format about a kid who grows up on the streets of Las Vegas. This game called life isn't an east one, but luckily, Ray is a fast learner and catches on quick. After enduring a couple setbacks, he knew he took all the things that made him happy for granted and remorsefully crashed down to rock bottom. Through all his experiences of sex, drugs, gambling, and violence, Ray displays a fantastic sense of humor that pulls you in as you listen. Ray uses his humorous wit to turn any traumatic situation into a comical one. It's truly dark comedy at its best!

After the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular, labyrinthine journey to understand his loss. How do you create an existence when all you can see is a void? The Reactor is a memoir about absence and creative possibilities, assembled like the pieces of a puzzle. Through philosophy, music, fashion, psychology, art and film, Blackburn travels a vast panorama of ideas and characters to offer an entirely new exploration of grief.

On a hot afternoon in July of 2019, E.A. Tobolski's husband was hit by a pickup truck as he rode his motorcycle home to her. Two hours later, she arrived at the hospital and was told "they did all they could". Her husband of 28 years and partner for 31 died, leaving her to mourn him and parts of her own definition. The life she lived for over half her life, one which nourished her and gave her purpose, had been ripped away and replaced with the painfully uncertain life of widowhood.

Comment dire adieu à un être cher alors que le monde entier est frappé par une crise sanitaire, que le défunt repose au Nigeria et que ses enfants sont bloqués en Angleterre et aux Etats-Unis ? Le père de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie vient de mourir. Séparée de ses proches, cette dernière vit un deuil empêché et solitaire. Elle écrit alors sous la forme de courts chapitres, composés comme des soubresauts de chagrin et de rage, où l'amour et l'admiration qu'elle portait à son père explosent à chaque page.

Family is the one thing you can rely on when the chips are down and you need help. When so-called friends and colleagues desert you in your hour of need, it is family that will likely be there to help you put the pieces back together again. Maintaining a close and loving relationship with your family members is crucial for so many reasons, so it’s vitally important that you work on it as hard as possible. This book, The Eternal Pain, gives a deep insight into why our families are so important to us and how we can work to keep those strong bonds and make them even stronger.

This paradigm-shattering book will free you from the forces that would turn you into a victim. It will lead you step by step through a simple process that will free you from the pain of the past and protect you from the pain of the future.

या पुस्तकाद्वारे आपण मृत्यूविषयीचं सत्य, त्याचबरोबर मृत्यू पूर्णविराम नसून अल्पविराम आहे हेही जाणणार आहात. हे ज्ञान आपल्या वर्तमानात बदल घडवून आणेल आणि जीवनाला सुंदर, सकारात्मक बनवेल.

As humans, we have all experienced something in our lives that has made us feel broken and that we struggle with coming back from. Nelia discovered how short life was the day her father passed away, shattering her world, altering her outlook and essentially changing her life forever. This audiobook is a true story about prolonged and delayed grief and how Nelia suppressed her grief as a means of protection. However, this backfired after being one of those people who always wore her heart on her sleeve. It resulted in anxiety, PTSD, and depression.

Bittersweetness recognises that light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired. As Bittersweet shows, our obsession with happiness is not making us happy, healthy or whole. It's only by embracing our darker emotions—as well as the light—that we discover our deepest meaning and connection, love and joy. It can change the way we work, the way we create and the way we love—for it is the hidden source of our love stories, moonshots and masterpieces.

Rebecca has to face a battle in the court without knowing its outcome. She choose to follow her belief, which puts her in a situation of uncertainty and hopelessness. But God was on her side, and he spoke to her and comforted her through situations that is beyond human knowledge.

In the last years of her life, Teresa Lim's mother, Violet Chang, had copies of a cherished family photograph made for those in the portrait who were still alive. The photo is mounted on cream card with the name of the studio stamped at the bottom in Chinese characters. The place and date on the back: Hong Kong, 1935. Teresa would often look at this photograph, enticed by the fierceness and beauty of her great-aunt Fanny looking back at her. But Fanny never seemed to feature in the told and retold family stories. Why? she wondered.

Becoming a caregiver for a terminally ill family member is an enormous challenge. This guide is a gift to my late husband, who not only taught me how to live well, but how to die well. I hope it will carry on his legacy of always teaching and sharing, even as he faced the end of his life. A compact guide that you can easily reference along your personal journey, it is filled with practical suggestions to help you, as the caregiver, honor the way your family member would like to create his or her final journey toward paradise.

For the Grace of Joe follows the journey of one family through the discovery, diagnosis, and loss through the stillbirth of Joe Grayson Morgan, who had Trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome), and the ensuing mental health challenges that grief can throw at parents. This audiobook was written for families who are where we were. You are not alone.

Grief is many things. It’s losing a job or divorcing a partner. It’s a traumatic or terminal illness, the death of a loved one, or an addiction that threatens the life we love. But grief is also canceled plans, missed opportunities, and lives forever changed. In all its forms, grief is the signal we experience when life doesn’t go as planned. But in the depth of loss, hope rises to the surface. We have a chance to grow after trauma - an opportunity waiting for us if we choose to take it.

In this deeply affecting and uplifting book, Janet Wehr shares the real-life stories of her many years as a hospice nurse. Her first-hand account gives illuminating and comforting insight into the spiritual aspect of what occurs in the transition between life and death, highlighting the importance of the mind-body-spirit connection as it manifests in the dying process. It also gives a candid impression of hospices and hospice nurses and the services they can provide. All of Janet’s 46 personal stories are true, fascinating, heart-felt, and thought-provoking.

From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell - and a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door.

The unthinkable has happened. Painful. Crushing. Traumatic. Confusing. Complicated. No chance to say good-bye. No final embrace, kiss, or touch. No opportunity to clear the air, ask and give forgiveness, or make amends. A life gone. The tsunami has come, and now you're left standing amid the aftermath. What do you do? Reach out, and grab the hand of multiple award-winning author and grief counselor Gary Roe. Let him walk with you through this uncharted, forbidding territory. You need a companion who can be a source of comfort, perspective, hope, and healing.