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Summary: Very Very Helpful Book
Review: Although it has been 15 years since the terrible loss of my very much loved daughter this book helped me very much. I have read many, many books since she passed away but find I am still searching for answers as well as ways to cope. I am glad to find there are other people who have suffered this loss and are much better at putting their feelings into words that I am. So many times I found myself thinking, "Yes!!!!!!!! that is exactly what I have been feeling". I recommend this for anyone experiencing this loss but only to read after a couple of years have passed. I know it takes that long to read something like this with a different perspective. I don't know that it would have helped the first couple of years, although nothing could help then.
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Summary: Very Very Helpful Book
Review: Although it has been 15 years since the terrible loss of my very much loved daughter this book helped me very much. I have read many, many books since she passed away but find I am still searching for answers as well as ways to cope. I am glad to find there are other people who have suffered this loss and are much better at putting their feelings into words that I am. So many times I found myself thinking, "Yes!!!!!!!! that is exactly what I have been feeling". I recommend this for anyone experiencing this loss but only to read after a couple of years have passed. I know it takes that long to read something like this with a different perspective. I don't know that it would have helped the first couple of years, although nothing could help then.
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Summary: a book for later
Review: As a bereaved parent, I found this a wonderful book for resource as well as to find comfort in the words of so many parents. We all speak the same language. I highly recommend the book and wish there were more like it.
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Summary: For other family members
Review: I bought this book to give to my mother and father. I had to order another copy. Once I started reading it I needed to keep it. It is an excellent book for siblings who have experienced a tragic loss. Most of the titles dealing with grief tell you how to heal. This book lets you experience profound sadness and find comfort in the fact that others were there before you.
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Summary: The most depressing book I have ever read
Review: I found this book to be extremely depressing and full of despair, which someone who has lost a child doesn't need to feel more of. This book offered no hope and must have been written by authors who believe they will never see their children again. I refuse to look at life and death that way and instead choose to have hope of reuniting with my daughter and peace in knowing that she is in a much better place than we are. Obviously I would not recommed this book for anyone who has lost a child.
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Summary: Shared experiences ease the pain of loss.
Review: I grew up knowing that my grandfather experienced the loss of a child, but I never gave it much consideration. One thing I wish I could do today, six years after the death of my 10-year-old son, is bring my deceased grandfather back to tell him my story and listen to him talk about the death of his only son during World War Two. Anyone who has lived through the loss of a child will feel a lightening of the heart as they recognize their own experiences and thoughts in the words of others. This book is a valuable collection of work from gifted writers who had those experiences and thoughts. Rabindranath Tagore's poem, "The End", reaches so deep it's painful, but I find myself reading it over and over because it puts my feelings to words in a way I can't. So now, because I read this book, eight simple words, artfully arranged by Tagore, will always be with me when I think of my son; "He is in my bones and in my soul." Thank you, Anne and Mary, for giving me something like talking to my grandfather.
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Summary: The most helpful book so far...
Review: I lost my precious daughter Hannah Caguiat last December in an accident that injured me and her little sister Emily as well. Along with an outpouring of love, support, and sympathy from our family and community, I received dozens of books about bereavement in general and loss of a child in particular. I received _A Broken Heart Still Beats_ as a gift recently and reading it has been so helpful. Despite the variety of experiences and the fact that some of the pieces in here are fiction, this is the first time I have felt like there are people out there who truly would understand what we are going through. It is not a self-help book, but does explore various aspects of being a bereaved parent -- from relationships with spouse/partner/child's other parent, to anger, to sibling issues. I highly recommend this for anyone who has lost a child or is close to someone who has. I was saddened, too, by how many people out there in the arts and literature have been in this situation. So many that I never knew had experienced this.
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Summary: My story
Review: I lost my seventeen year old son in a auto accident this year. Alot of people have their religion and faith to fall back on, others (like me) find their faith has been shaken when the worst that can happen, happens. There are no answers for the neverending questions you have after you lose your son or daughter, especially the hardest one is why? You won't find the answers in a book or in any place on earth, it has to come from inside you. This book is just a guide to help you, a collection of stories from other people, famous and not so famous. It's like getting a personal letter from someone who understands, as if they wrote it just for you and your child without getting lost in any one belief or philosophy. It comes from the heart.
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Summary: For another time
Review: This book has not been helpful to me in this first few months of loss. Although it does show similarities people have in their experience of deep grief, it does not offer solutions. Shakesphere and Poe may have had similar experiences, and may have written about them elloquently, but that doesn't help me today. I think this book needs to be targeted to a diferent population than those of us who are looking for answers.
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Summary: Comments from a grieving grandfather
Review: This book is excellent, in that it provides the distressed reader with many writings of gifted authors. It is not a book to be read at one sitting, as it can be overwhelming. I would recommend that a person interested in this book read my review of "A Child Dies - A portrait of family grief". This book was the better of the two, in the view of my family - however I recommend both. "A Broken Heart" contains many episodes which are based on fiction, which seemed less meaningful than the words of those whom have actually suffered a loss. Though the words are always wonderfully crafted, fiction did not have the meaning of the words of reality.
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