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What began as a singular letter in response to a younger family member standing on the precipice of her 60th birthday and asking the age-old question, 'What’s it like to be old?,' soon turned into one full year of unsent reflections, wonderment and curiosity of a life truly lived. Out of these reflections, New York Times-bestselling author Sophy Burnham developed this short, storytelling collection of unsent letters that offer listeners of all ages hope and happiness, and new ways to perceive our later years.

After the death of a close friend at seventeen, Tom Turcich resolved to make the most out of life; to travel and be forced into adventure; to experience and understand the world. On April 2nd, 2015, he set out to see it all—one step at a time.

“There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged. My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.” There is no good way to say this—because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, “a single point in a timeline.” Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James.

Viele Trauernde haben das Gefühl, wie amputiert zu sein. Ein Teil von ihnen fehlt! Dieses Buch wendet sich gezielt an Trauernde nach dem Verlust eines Partners oder einer Partnerin. Die jahrzehntelange Erfahrung der Autorin mit Trauernden spiegelt sich in der Darstellung der vielschichtigen Aspekte der Trauer wieder. Beispielsweise werden Trauergefühle, Trauerphasen und das Trauerjahr ausführlich behandelt, ebenso wie verschiedene Todesumstände, wie plötzlicher oder unerwarteter Tod, die Problematik verschiedener Altersstufen, die Trauer der Kinder.

Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James. Things in Nature Merely Grow is a testament to Li’s indomitable spirit.

Karie Fugett’s story depicts an oft-overlooked reality of war: the experience of the many thousands of caregivers and spouses—mostly women, mostly young, mostly poor—whose lives have been shattered by battles fought against enemies abroad and against addiction at home. Tender, vivid, and laced with dark humor, Alive Day is at once an epic and engrossing love story, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, and a powerful indictment of the sins of a nation.

What is legacy, and how will I leave one? Betsy Armstrong asks herself this question after her forty-six-year-old mother dies with a list of regrets and her stepfather completely disinherits her. Alone, Betsy sets about building a life of no regrets: becoming a marathon runner and Ironman triathlete, quitting a cushy corporate job to lead a life of service, and overcoming a crippling fear of commitment to marry. Still, she’s always running from the grief she can’t escape.

After loosing her beloved mother to Alzheimer's, a devoted daughter decided to share their journey. Her personal stories and journal entries take you through the joys and the heartache that come from the disease that is devastating millions of families all over the world. She reveals the good, the bad and the ugly signs and symptoms, some choose to never share.

In this empowering memoir "Strong and Soulful: Graced by Grief," Denise Olsen shares her transformative journey through the depths of devastating loss to a place of unexpected strength and profound self-discovery. After the heart-shattering loss of her husband, a firefighter in the World Trade Center attacks, Denise was enveloped in a grief so intense, it threatened to consume her. But within this dark chapter of her life, she found a surprising truth: grief, while altering us irrevocably, does not have to be our undoing.

One of the most peaceful spots in Singapore is hidden in plain sight. On Google maps, it's listed as "Shuang Long Shan Wu Shu Ancestral Hall", but a quick search reveals it's also known as "Shuang Long Shan Cemetery", "Yin Foh Kuan Hakka Cemetery" or "Holland Close Graveyard". Meet Teo Ee Koon...

La muerte es algo inevitable, así como todos los cambios que vivimos en la vida. En este episodio abordaremos uno de los conceptos más complejos de la vida y que, sin embargo, todos enfrentaremos...

To whoever is listening to this little book, I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope our story helps you understand that our loved ones, like my big sister, are never really gone. One day, Lady Hershey softly whispered in my ear that she was not afraid to leave. She wanted for me and our favourite person, Olivia, to not be too sad. She knew that she was going to Paradise, along with all the other animals and pets who have been loved very much by their families here on earth.

Merging dreams and dailies, Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.

Written by a registered nurse with over 30 years of experience taking care of terminally ill patients and helping them find comfort and peace as they near their appointed time, Pathway to Heaven Without Fear shares how death is not the final outcome, but a bridge to our new heavenly home. Author Melissa Ralph shares her real experiences in nursing and faith along with comforting scriptures to bring a better understanding of the unknown to listeners looking for a way to draw closer to God.

Cuando la trabajadora social Lisa Keefauver enviudó en 2011, le impresionó descubrir que, aunque todos sufrimos alguna vez, la mayoría de las personas no tiene los conocimientos para lidiar con el duelo. Gracias a su experiencia como terapeuta, pero también como alguien que buscaba ayuda para sobrellevar su propia pérdida, Keefauver se percató de que, muchas veces, las historias de duelo que consumimos nos llevan por el camino equivocado: uno en el que sufrimos de manera innecesaria.

Bisher ist wenig bekannt, wie wichtig die Zeit im Bauch der Mutter für das weitere Leben ist. Noch unbekannter ist, dass die Reise ins Leben oft nicht allein angetreten wird. Das Phänomen des Verlorenen Zwillings, im englischen Sprachraum "vanishing twin" genannt, betrifft aber viele Menschen, rund jeden Zehnten. Die vorgeburtlichen Erfahrungen des innigen Zusammenseins und des Verlustes des Anderen sind lebensprägend.

"Losing my mom at 38-years-old is the most crushing blow I’ve yet to endure, and writing this book has been my lifeline. While I immediately distracted myself with my duty and privilege to honor my mom by writing her obituary, and giving her eulogy, the heaviest grief took some months to take hold."

Based, in part, on Rabbi Sacks’s collection of columns in the UK's Times newspaper, Celebrating Life is a series of reflections on subjects such as morality, friendship, listening to others and giving thanks. It also talks about topics such as being a parent, finding and losing one’s faith and most of all, finding happiness. In Celebrating Life, Rabbi Sacks discovers where happiness lives, often in unexpected places, through family, community, friendship and responsibilities. He also finds it through a renewed relationship with God who spoke to his deepest needs.

Der Tod ist ein Thema, das in unserer Gesellschaft oft im Hintergrund bleibt, über das nur wenig gesprochen wird und das viele Menschen vor unangenehmen Gefühlen und Gedanken zurückschrecken lässt. Doch er ist ebenso untrennbar mit dem Leben verbunden wie die Geburt und jedes andere bedeutende Ereignis. Der Tod eines geliebten Menschen ist eine der tiefsten und transformierendsten Erfahrungen, die wir im Leben machen können. Es ist der Moment, in dem wir uns mit unserer eigenen Vergänglichkeit und der Bedeutung des Abschieds auseinandersetzen müssen.

When Erika Simpson was growing up, her mother loomed large, almost biblical in her life. A daughter of sharecroppers, middle child of ten, her origin story served as a Genesis. Her departure from home and a cheating husband, pursuing higher education along the way a kind of Exodus. Her rules for survival, often repeated like the Ten Commandments, guided Erika’s own journey into adulthood. And the most important rule? Throughout her life, Sallie Carol preached the power of a testimony—which often proved useful in talking her way out of a bind with bill collectors.