After My Son's Suicide

After My Son's Suicide

Author: Darla Isackson

Publisher: Bitterroot Mountain Publishing

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780981787435

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Addresses the following topicss. Where are they now? Forgiving the one who died and forgiving others. Reclaiming live. Rebuilding on Christ, the Rock. The light returns, life goes on. Other important insights and resources.


Shattered

Shattered

Author: Rebecca Tervo

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05-23

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780692906293

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True story of one mother's journey through unbearable grief back to a life of joy after her 17 year old son died unexpectedly of suicide.


Blown Away

Blown Away

Author: Richard Boothby

Publisher: Other Press, LLC

Published: 2022-05-31

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1635422612

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This powerful memoir follows a father’s journey to make sense of his world after losing his son to addiction and suicide. Fifteen years ago, Richard Boothby received a fateful call from his ex-wife that their twenty-three-year-old son, Oliver, was dead. Although Richard had been dreading this news, given Oliver’s prolonged struggle with drug dependency, nothing could have prepared him for the devastating shock. He became obsessed with uncovering the truth of why Oliver shot himself—had he been self-medicating an undiagnosed mental illness?—and what they could have done to prevent it. In an attempt to stem the pain, Boothby turned to psychoanalysis. He was no stranger to the concept—as a professor of philosophy, he had focused his career on the intersection between psychoanalytic theory and contemporary philosophy—but this was far from an academic exercise. Through his time in talk therapy, as well as psychedelic experiences in a research study on psilocybin, he would gradually find a sense of acceptance of the unknown, and a renewed appreciation for life. Exploring the epidemics of substance abuse and gun violence from an intimate perspective, Boothby’s poignant account of grief shows how the death of a loved one can in some ways bring us closer to them and ourselves.


After Suicide

After Suicide

Author: John H. Hewett

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1980-01-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780664242961

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Clarifies current knowledge of suicide and demonstrates how survivors should deal with feelings of guilt, anger, bewilderment, and shame


I'll Write Your Name on Every Beach

I'll Write Your Name on Every Beach

Author: Susan Auerbach

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2017-07-21

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 178450615X

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Written by a mother who lost her 21 year old son to suicide, this book deals with the themes of suicide loss through the lens of the author's personal grief. Addressing the process of post-traumatic growth, this memoir provides the bereaved with therapy exercises and creative activities to help them come to terms with their loss. Although it deals directly with losing a child, much of the book pertains to grief generally, especially complicated grief after a sudden death, and thus provides comfort to any reader who has lost a close one to suicide or anyone interested in young people struggling with mental health. Organised thematically, it addresses the many issues and stages involved in the grieving process and ends each chapter with a variety of beneficial yoga, breathing and therapy activities. This allows readers to dip in and out of the book, and go at their own pace - replicating the fact that grief is not a linear journey but an iterative one that goes back and forth. This book is a lifeline for anyone struggling to process loss.


After a Parent's Suicide

After a Parent's Suicide

Author: Margo Requarth

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13:

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Explores the complex emotional issues children face after a parent commits suicide and offers practical advice on how the remaining parent and other family members can help them cope.


Chasing Death: Losing a Child to Suicide

Chasing Death: Losing a Child to Suicide

Author: Jan Andersen

Publisher: Jan Andersen

Published: 2009-10-10

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13:

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On Halloween 2002, Jan Andersen's 20-year-old son Kristian found a permanent solution to his misery. Suicide. He wrote two suicide notes, took an overdose of Heroine and died on Friday 1st November 2002, leaving behind a one-year-old daughter. The stigma, helplessness and unanswered questions that accompany the suicide of a loved one can isolate grieving families in a wilderness of relentless, silent torture. Chasing Death attempts to put candid, but heartrendering words but often the incommunicable pain that the surving families endure, not only through the telling of Kristian's story, but through the experiences of other families mourning the loss of a child to suicide. It covers topics that will not be found in detached and academic grief recovery books, but does include coping strategies.


Hope and Healing After Suicide

Hope and Healing After Suicide

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2011-05

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781770523463

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When people die by suicide, they leave behind family and friends who suddenly find themselves mourning the person's loss and wondering what happened. This guide addresses many personal issues related to a death by suicide, including telling others, working through the grief, finding what helps people to heal, and grieving in children and youth. This Ontario guide also outlines practical things that need taking care of, such as arranging a funeral and dealing with the deceased's personal, legal and financial matters. A resource section lists organizations, websites and books that may help.


Losing a Son to Suicide

Losing a Son to Suicide

Author: Randall L. Stepp

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-06-07

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9781500124748

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My personal story of losing my 15 year old son Brandon to suicide. In the wake of his suicide, I began writing poetry to process the flood of emotions that I was dealing with. If you have lost someone you love to suicide, then every word in this book will resonate with you. If your life hasn't been touched by suicide, then my thoughts and poems will provide a glimpse into the carnage left behind when you lose a loved one to suicide.


No Time to Say Goodbye

No Time to Say Goodbye

Author: Carla Fine

Publisher: Main Street Books

Published: 2011-05-11

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0307788881

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Suicide would appear to be the last taboo. Even incest is now discussed freely in popular media, but the suicide of a loved one is still an act most people are unable to talk about--or even admit to their closest family or friends. This is just one of the many painful and paralyzing truths author Carla Fine discovered when her husband, a successful young physician, took his own life in December 1989. And being unable to speak openly and honestly about the cause of her pain made it all the more difficult for her to survive. With No Time to Say Goodbye, she brings suicide survival from the darkness into light, speaking frankly about the overwhelming feelings of confusion, guilt, shame, anger, and loneliness that are shared by all survivors. Fine draws on her own experience and on conversations with many other survivors--as well as on the knowledge of counselors and mental health professionals. She offers a strong helping hand and invaluable guidance to the vast numbers of family and friends who are left behind by the more than thirty thousand people who commit suicide each year, struggling to make sense of an act that seems to them senseless, and to pick up the pieces of their own shattered lives. And, perhaps most important, for the first time in any book, she allows survivors to see that they are not alone in their feelings of grief and despair.