After the Death of a Child: Living With Loss Through the Years

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Summary: It confirms the long term aspects of our grief
Review: As others have written, this book explains what we are still going though years later and that there is no quick fix for the newly bereaved. But there are things that friends and family can do to help, at any stage; from the funeral to 40 years later. Julane Grant's book, When Your Friend's Child Dies, offers easy to understand, practical ways for friends to help us live with (we don't get over it)the grief. When our friends know what we are feeling, then they know that we want our child mentioned, we want to grab a hold of everyone's memory of our child. This book told my unspoken feelings and now I leave my copy on the coffee table and friends pick it up. I already know how I feel, I want them to know!

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Summary: Nice try, but too light
Review: I'd agree with Charleston; better books exist on the subject. ("Gili's Book", for one)

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Summary: Nice try, but too light
Review: I'd agree with Charleston; better books exist on the subject. ("Gili's Book", for one)

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Summary: Other books on parental grief are better
Review: One of the best books I've read since my son died is "When the Bough Breaks : Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter"; Judith R., Phd Bernstein. I would recommend that one first.

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Summary: Needed in Your Library
Review: Powerful and covering so many aspects of the grieving life, After The Death of A Child, speaks to the hearts of bereaved parents everywhere. Read this book and know that you are not crazy for holding the feelings you have since the loss of your own child. Chapter 12 on Job was a comfort to read, providing me with many insights into my own faith as I read the thoughts of others. Read this book to know you are not alone. (Author "Slices of Sunlight, A Cookbook of Memories" Daniel's House Publications, 2000)

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Summary: No one should have to read this book
Review: This book contains some of the most painful, and at the same time the most helpful writing I have read since the death of my own son. Those who will choose to read it will do so because they have experienced the most devastating loss imaginable - the death of a child. Ann Finkbeiner is right when she says her book is not for the newly bereaved. There are no comforting platitudes, no 12 steps, no meditations. No words of wisdom, no instructions for "getting over it", since, as she says, and everyone who has been there knows - there IS no getting over it. There's just learning a different way to live the rest of your life, learning to live with the pain. You'll only read it if you have the need to, and if you have need to, please know that I'm very sorry.

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Summary: One of the finest books for bereaved parents I've ever read.
Review: This extraordinary book is both guide and friend to those of us who have had a child die. I know of no other book which covers the ground this one does, looking at the ongoing effects of a child's death on a bereaved parent's life and suggesting, through a multitude of personal stories, ways to continue on in a forever-altered existence. Only a bereaved parent could have written this book. I am grateful from the depths of my heart to Ann Finkbeiner for doing so.

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Summary: Excellent work on a difficult subject.
Review: This was one of the most helpful books I have read on the death of a child over the past ten years. My son died sixteen years ago and I was very interested to read a book dealing with the long term results of the loss of a child. This book dealt with many topics which are covered in the majority of books on grief but dealt with them from the view of parents who have moved several years away from the loss. After all, when a child dies you are still dealing with that death five years later, ten years later and throughout the remainder of your lifeCfs