Gentle Closings: How To Say Goodbye To Someone You Love

by Ted Menten

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Our very successful first edition of GENTLE CLOSINGS helped thousands of readers deal with grief in all its stages. Now complete with a new chapter, this revised edition shares insights into the processes of acceptance, forgiveness, and recovery. By breaking down the experience of saying goodbye into steps and helping the reader through each one, Ted Menton eases the pain of dealing with the death of a loved one, and lets the healing process begin. Collects stories of people facing the death show more of a loved one, and shows how they pushed aside despair to rejoice in shared memories and confront death with warmth, frankness, and even humor. show less

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When your loved one is dying, how do you say goodbye? This gentle book is about people who have said goodbye and how they did it. You will see how others have pushed aside their despair to rejoice in their shared memories and face death with warmth, frankness, and even humor.
From the back cover: "This gentle book is about people who have said goodbye and how they did it. You will see how others have pushed aside their despair to rejoice in their shared memories and face death with warmth, frankness, and even humor.

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1991

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DDC/MDS
155.9Philosophy & psychologyPsychologyDifferential and developmental psychologyEnvironmental psychology
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BF575 .G7 .M46Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionPsychologyPsychologyAffection. Feeling. Emotion
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