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The Last Things We Talk About gives readers and their loved ones the opportunity as death approaches to affirm, celebrate, and remember the people and experiences they cherish in life.
The author guides readers step-by-step through the process of making aging and death-related decisions. This includes defining personal values and wishes as well as planning for practical medical, financial, and legal considerations.
This book will...
The author guides readers step-by-step through the process of making aging and death-related decisions. This includes defining personal values and wishes as well as planning for practical medical, financial, and legal considerations.
This book will...
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24 Years ago, I lost my best friend, I was 11 years old. This story is about my personal reflection, my emotion, my feeling and how I cope at 34 years old. This story is not just about me, but also about the victims. John was my best friend, he died too young, 24 years later, I try to reflect, I try to remember and I try to resolve.
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I've always believed that I would die young. I can't really explain it. It's a deep feeling within that I've had from a very young age. I'm the exact age now as my mother was when she died, and this has been a pivotal point for me as I wrestle with my values and beliefs from my past and form new ones that will serve me far better into the future. Some people think I'm morbid talking about death openly like I do. Frankly, I don't think we talk about...
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When Sara Rahimi was a teenager living in Iran's capital, she dreamed of a life where she could do or be whatever she wanted to. She longed to become like Oprah and Ellen: free, powerful, and inspiring. Instead, she lived in an atmosphere characterized by fear and terror - one where Morality Police monitored her every move, and gendered cultural norms determined her life's path. She once begged a male friend to jump out of her family's second story...
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L'auteur aborde le vieillissement et la société en changement pour faire le point sur son propre vieillissement et sur les changements dans les valeurs de la société québécoise qu'il a pu observer.
Il présente le sujet du point de vue d'une personne âgée qui vit le processus de vieillissement et qui a vécu les divers événements qui ont transformé la société québécoise. Ce point de vue ne se limite pas à sa vision et à son expérience....
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The truth is sometimes the hardest thing to accept.
This is a self-help guide to living and dying, written by an 8-year-old girl, a cancer victim. Who'd decided to share her life experience in the hospital, waiting to die. Knowing she will die. And, all along thinking of her mother's happiness; and her ability to help other children not be scared of the circumstance.
Life is infinite, depending on your comprehension of what life is.
Nothing ever...
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This is the story of one man's hobby and its overwhelmingly positive effect physically, emotionally, socially, and mentally on his life. The hobby is scuba diving, but not on the reefs of southern seas. This is about diving in Halifax Harbour. Diving summer and winter in one of the biggest and deepest harbours in the world has given Bob a view of history that few will ever witness.
Inquisitive and energetic, the author spins yarns about the strange...
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Lisandre est déchirée entre ce qu'elle avait cru, ce qu'aujourd'hui elle veut croire et la réalité crue de cette vie qui semble s'acharner sur elle. À la suite d'un drame familial, du haut de ses treize ans, en quête d'amour et de reconnaissance, elle se construit dans l'ombre du fantme d'Agathe, sa sœur. En 2003, tentant vainement de découvrir ce qu'on lui avait caché à propos de cette dernière, elle mène une enquête. Seulement, vingt...
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What do you tell children when a parent has been diagnosed with a serious illness? What should you do? What should you talk about? When do you tell them? What words should you use?
This book provides parents and other caregivers with suggestions on how to approach children with the information that their parent is seriously ill. There are many examples of how and what to say to children and teens.
The author reviews a child's understanding and...
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Do you find yourself wanting more out of life? It's time to bring play to your every day
Play is not just for kids! There are many reasons we need play in our lives. The Playful Life shows you why and how to bring more playfulness to all aspects of your life. You'll explore how to create meaningful, relevant, and fun experiences for yourself and others through both a playful mindset and playful behaviors. Through research and 20+ years of teaching...
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"My Dear Friend, I have sad news. Someone I cherish has just died from the outbreak. I'm going through a challenging time right now, and I could use your support."
So begins this powerful, poignant and inspiring guide to loss and healing in these unprecedented times. It offers compassionate tools we can use immediately- not just for ourselves-but to support friends, family or loved ones coping with loss during the outbreak and its aftermath. By sharing...
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Ueli Oswald offers, a frank and deeply touching account of exactly this situation. His father, now in retirement, decides to end his life and seeks, the help of an assisted dying organization. Should the son support the old man or should he try to restrain him? How can he be sure that his father has really made up his mind once-and-for-all? They grow closer, as they, make their decisions and face, their fears at death's door.
14) Don't Forget Me
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This book is meant to bring hope and encouragement to those who have experienced the pain of a loved one fighting the effects of Alzheimer's or Dementia. You will discover that you are not alone as you read the experiences of others as they remember their loved one before the disease. You may find comfort and peace in the difficult times as you read the scriptures shared with each story.
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the...
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Have you or someone you love dearly been diagnosed with cancer? Did the chemotherapy or radiation treatments fail? Were you or your loved one offered hospice or end of life care? If you answered yes to one or all of the above questions, this is the book for you!
Between the Treatments is the journey of our family's ten-month fight with a Stage Four Liver Cancer diagnosis, chemotherapy treatments, hospice care and ultimately the death of our 21-month...
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After enduring several painful months witnessing the decline and ultimate death of a loved one, author Charlie Hudson recognized that she needed to radically change her views on the realities of aging. Known for her easy storytelling style in both nonfiction and fiction, Hudson departs from her usual subject matter here, tackling aging, mental decline, and death-topics we so often avoid.
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I want you to ask yourself, what do you regret not having done in your 20s, 30s, and 40s. What is that one thing that you just couldn't live with yourself having not done, and what that greatest regret may be. Was it not committing your life to helping others, was it not pursuing your passion? Was it not being a good father, mother, child, friend, lover? I challenge each and every one of you to live your life to the fullest, to live a life without...
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We all know loss is a part of life, but does it need to be the death of you?
There are many losses in life: loss of a loved one, loss of a dream, loss of our health, even a loss of faith.
How does one cope with the many losses in life without losing hope?
In the second book of The Process Trilogy, the author takes us on a journey through a newspaper career, business adventure, and eventual career change and presents his 15 keys to overcoming loss...
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In the summer of 1994, a freak lightning and thunder storm explodes on the southern coast of Maine, killing Nancy Bills's husband and critically wounding her younger son. She promises her late husband that she will write their family's story and bind it with a red ribbon of love and courage.
In language alternately tender and gritty, The Red Ribbon documents the aftermath of Bills's husband's death. As a wife, she grieves and attempts to rebuild...
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When my wife passed away four days before Christmas in 2017 I was devastated. Mary and I had a challenging, exciting and adventurous life together for over 53 years, traveling the globe and finding success in a number of careers. But suddenly she was gone.
I had lost my identity and purpose. I cried out:
"What now, Lord?"
"Why am I still here?"
"What do you have in store for me now?"
And over the ensuing months God began to show me that, although...
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