Good Grief Collection

Illustrator and animator Gary Andrews suddenly lost his wife, Joy, to sepsis, leaving him a widower and single father to two young children. As a way of coping, Gary posted a doodle a day on Twitter, illustrating the ups and downs of family life after Joy's death. His drawings, which depict his a...

A practical guide to the spiritual and legal aspects of alternative deathways, home funerals, green burial, and more Death Rights & Rites presents practical information for approaching death and dying with a sense of personal and sacred meaning. You will learn how to navigate the practical, legal...

Written to support people who intend to use the services of a funeral director, but would also give inspiration to those who would rather not.

When someone you love dies, you might feel sad, lonely, and confused. What do you do? No matter who your loved one was, this story can help you through the tough times.

Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination - not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead. In this book, John Troyer examine...

An anthology of inspirational, heartfelt letters written by people who have recovered or are recovering from depression and addressed to those who are currently affected by it with additional resources for recovery.

On the last day of 1959 my father, the Beau Brummel of morticians, piled us into his green and white Desoto. He drove away from Lanesboro, the city in which we all were born, and into a small town on the Kentucky and Tennessee border. It was only a 90-minute drive, but it might as well have been ...

The conventional view of grieving - encapsulated by the famous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance - is defined by a mourning process that we can only hope to accept and endure. In 'The Other Side of Sadness,' psychologist and emotions expert George Bonanno ...

Both memoir and handbook, this title documents a psychologist's journey through trauma, grief and the hardest of times, while finding resilience and hope along the way.

When journalist Tom Morton suffered a heart attack in 2015, his close encounter with death led him on an extraordinary journey into the world of the dead. He decided to train to become the only independent funeral celebrant on the remote Shetland islands. Armed with a new black suit and a second-...