検索キーワード： "20×20" 悲嘆・喪失

As if juggling a life with half-a-dozen kids, including triplets, isn’t enough, Steve Tate receives the life-altering news that one of his triplets, Hayes, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The once-star collegiate football player finds himself fighting for his son’s life. This memoir takes you through the various challenges he faced raising a family of six kids and balancing a career, all while his son battled the odds. Both Steve and his high-school sweetheart, Savanna, found hope and happiness through the example of their 20-month-old son Hayes.

Elizabeth Burton-Phillips is a teacher, an ordinary middle-class mother who had always tried to do the best for her children. She never imagined that her identical twin sons, who had been doing so well at school, would become involved in drugs. She was shocked when they were suspended from school for smoking cannabis, but this was just the start of a terrible, unimaginable journey - culminating in the knock on the door in the early hours by the police. They gave her the devastating news that her son Nick had killed himself in despair at his heroin addiction.

Ces textes méditatifs et réflexifs passent en effet par le prisme de la beauté évocatrice des mots pour soigner les vivants confrontés à l'épreuve du deuil : il s'agit d'apprendre à inventer des liens avec le défunt et de continuer à vivre. Sont parcourues, quasi chronologiquement et en cohérence, une panoplie de situations et de circonstances par une adresse directe au défunt ou à Dieu : les émotions qui jalonnent les étapes du deuil, les vertus des larmes, la nécessaire solitude, le pouvoir du temps, la spiritualité, la finitude.

DI Geraldine Steel knows people go missing all the time; sometimes because they don't want to be found. So when her partner Ian asks her to look into the disappearance of his football-buddy's girlfriend, her first instinct is to reassure him there's no need for concern. Until she's called to a suspected murder, and all her instincts tell her she's right about the identity of the victim. The young woman has earth and leaf mould and fragments of twigs in her long fair hair, her nose, her mouth, under her finger nails, clinging to her clothes. It's as if she'd been completely encased in earth. 

20 Days Changed Everything gives an in-depth account of a love story that dissolves the veil of dimensions from the death of the physical body to the miraculous afterlife connection shared by two souls; Becki here on the planet and Jack in the afterlife. They take us on an intimate, heartfelt journey through Jack’s 20-day conscious death process and into Becki’s nine-month discovery of life afterlife communication with him.

You know how the total preoccupation of coping with loss and dealing with grief affects every aspect of your being and your life? This will gradually lessen over time as you slowly move forward at your own pace through the stages of grief. Even if it takes a second at a time, then a minute or a day, one day you will notice that there is a bright blue sky, and you will feel less consumed by grief.

If you could fast forward your life to your deathbed and hear your regrets (and joys), then rewind and live your life with that knowledge, would you do it? This book provides that knowledge. After 14 years in the funeral business, Chris Meyer has sat with families and listened to their “could’ves”, “should’ves”, and “would’ves.” In doing so he learned many lessons - lessons that kept repeating themselves year after year.

In Als mein Mann von uns ging – Mein neues Leben nach 20 Jahren Ehe erzählt Clara Leiser offen, mitfühlend und authentisch von ihrem Weg durch den Verlust ihres Mannes – und darüber hinaus. Sie beschreibt, wie Trauer wirklich aussieht: roh, still, wütend, liebevoll, widersprüchlich. Und wie es möglich ist, langsam wieder Fuß zu fassen. Nicht, weil der Schmerz verschwindet, sondern weil das Leben sich mit ihm verwandelt.