Within 72 hours after you die, the one left to make plans for your funeral must answer over 125 or more questions about your funeral wishes and desires. Preparing for My Departure gives you the opportunity to set down most of the answers to these questions in writing. You can make family members aware of many things that your death may leave as a mystery, i.e family relationships, where other family members are buried, what caused the death of other family members.

Death is eminent in everyone's life. You do not know when your appointment is. Preparing for My Departure is for everyone from sixteen to a hundred and six. One to a family is not enough; husbands and wives each need to have a copy and fill out their individual information, so that each knows the inner thinking of the other. The book answers questions about payments, cremation/burial, what happens to the body after being interred, plus many others. Everyone wants to know these answers, but no one likes to bring up the subject.

A book that can touch everyone from all walks of life. It is a positively uplifting vision and approach to our passing from here into the next phase. It will wipe the slate clean of any fear or doubt we all may experience. A book chock-full of emotions - one of life - one of Heaven.

The book is about a promise that a mother makes on the day her only son, Adam Arthur James dies, at age nineteen. This is a true story of a connection between mother and son that leads to a beautiful, inspirational book filled with original poetry, songs, and insightful life lessons. The book is about death, grieving, finding purpose, and following a destiny which connected this world and the world beyond. Mostly, the book is about faith and unexplainable events that drive a grieving mother to aspire to a profound and magical place. The story is real and a gift to anyone who reads it. Inserted in this book is a CD, called Adam's Sound, which provides the reader with not only a reading opportunity, but a listening opportunity of some of Adam's original songs (16 songs/approximately 40 minutes).

Falls the Deepest Shadow is a self-help book for those who have lost a spouse. It is written from the heart by a man for a man but will be equally helpful to women because of the tenderness and sensitivity of its style. The process and progress of healing from grief, loneliness, pain and a myriad of other emotions that accompanies the loss of a spouse is uniquely documented in the book through the use of e-mail correspondence sent to friends during the author's first year of mourning

The book addresses four truths surrounding the grieving process: Nobody's Grief Is Worse Than Yours; The Best Route Past Grief Is Through It; Seek The Support Of Others, and Grieving Is Hard Work. The book is not all about sadness, however. There is humor in its pages as well --a convincing way of making the point that grieving does lessen with time. In a captivating and seductive style the author discusses the many moods of his grieinv journey and offers helpful insights and suggestions for the recent griever. It is a mellifluous read with ample documentation of the author's healing journey, a few good smiles, and ends on an upbeat note.

Argyle Park also offers an honest look at the difficulties of coping with aging parents. Walker explores her distress in coming to grips with the inevitable death of her father. Brought on by her anticipated long-distance move, she begins to face the emotionally frozen man her father has become. A week-long visit with Walker's father coincides with the anniversary of her sister's suicide, generating flash backs to the years of 1968 through 1977 and the tumultuous experiences that happened in these sisters' lives, including Vietnam protests and drug problems.

Drawing upon the spirituality instilled by her mother and her own inner strength, Walker discovers healthy ways to move beyond her struggles. Written with compassion and the utmost respect for each character, Argyle Park leaves the reader with hope and insights on forgiveness and reconciliation.

This memoir is non-fiction. Although the family at its center is drawn from real life, some of the characters' names have been changed out of respect for their privacy.

10% of book sales will be donated to suicide related programs.
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Pet Loss introduces the reader to pet owners who have experienced great losses. Their stories provide wisdom and support while embracing the reader in a larger community of animal lovers.

Pet Loss is compelling reading for all who have experienced the unconditional love of a pet and whose lives are forever touched because of this love.

A portion of all sales will benefit animals in need.

When My Time Comes is a self-help book, aimed at the average individual, who doesn't like to think about death, but who really needs to take care of the basics and alleviate or lessen the pain and agony that usually accompanies the passing of a loved one. It is just some common everyday advice for the common everyday person; it is not legal advice, and it does not replace a will or a good estate plan, but it can really be useful and serve as a guide or a plan for what must come to every person on earth.

It was 11:00 pm when the news just came on TV - tomorrow is the Fourth of July and I was thinking about a cookout in the back yard. My son Todd was at a picnic, and should be home soon. My wife was in bed sleeping.

I heard the sirens of emergency vehicles in the distance, and then as the vehicles got closer to my home, the sirens got louder and louder, I looked out the window and saw emergency vehicles - police, ambulances, and a fire truck rush past my home.

I felt a strong knot in my stomach. Little did I know that they were rushing to the scene of an accident that took my only child's life. In a split second our lives would change forever.

Within a five-year period, I lost my son, my job, my mother, my father, my house, and my wife.

A child represents your future, your spouse connects with your past. When you lose them both, you have no future, no connection to the past, only the present, and the present is dark and filled with dismay and uncertainty.

It took ten years to write this book. I wrote the first part after three years, because I wanted to remember my son, but all I could write was about his death. Three years later, I wrote the second part, because I felt well enough, I thought, to be able to finish the book. Another three years would pass before I could write part three, and another year to complete the book.

My life has taken pretty much the same course, in three parts. The normal years before Todd dies, the grieving years of uncertainty and healing, and part three, a new life has emerged.

This book describes what I went through when I lost my only child. It describes a period of time I call the "Five Years of Hell", and how I coped with it. I also explain my recovery period.

Fortunately not everyone takes it as hard as I did, or may not show it, and not every one goes through every thing I did. But I believe there are a lot of things that happened to me, that you will be able to recognize and understand. I hope the book finds its way into the hands of people who want to understand what it's like to lose a child, or help someone who has lost a son or daughter to cope with the loss.

The Guardian Angels I speak of are people and spirits that helped me back to an existence that I never thought I could achieve again. It is nice to be back. And I often wonder if Todd is up there watching me, and saying "Atta boy, Dad!"

Meet Lauren, a young girl coming to terms with the loss of her grandmother. Through Lauren's eyes we meet Nana. She loved the beach, was funny, forgetful, and a best friend who could build a great sandcastle. She had Alzheimer's. Dementia touches the lives of so many people. Understanding the illness goes a long way toward providing the right support.

This is a story of unconditional love, with memories of a friendship that had no need for words. It is about accepting people as they are, for 'everyone' is always 'someone', even if they can't tell you their name or remember yours.

Please Remember began as a pregnancy diary - a light-hearted and frank account of lives of the developing baby and ballooning mother. From the vertical blue line in the doctor’s surgery, the story unfolds. Through the excitement, the stress and strain, the baby’s kicks, the clothes, the swollen ankles and the increasing anticipation of bringing a new life into the world. The big day arrived sooner than expected but without a shadow of doubt. Three gentle little cries from a beautiful baby boy were enough to comfort me after an emergency c-section. But three little cries weren’t enough to mean that he was okay. He wasn’t, and the delight soon turned to disbelief and despair as the severity of his sickness was uncovered. Enlarged liver, spleen and heart, enlarged ventricles in his brain and a very low blood count all meant that he was a very sick little boy. But he looked great. He was big, looked strong and would grasp my finger when I placed it in the palm of his hand. I couldn’t believe that he wouldn’t make it. Four days later, in the quiet of the early morning, he slipped away into the unknown however. I curled up into a ball, emotionless, empty and heartbroken and lay looking at him. Shock and sadness reverberated through close family and friends but the rest of the world continued, unaware. The days and weeks passed but the heartache only deepened as the numbness of disbelief began to recede and the reality set in. The rest of the book follows me through the grieving process and my search for answers.

Having a loss when someone dies, has a variety of effects upon people. The author takes excerpts from his book, THIS DYING THING, and shares his thoughts. He also has a strong variety of other people who have written their stories about people who have died in their lives. For most it has been very therapeutic. And the author hopes it will be as beneficial to the readers.

It was 11:00 pm when the news just came on TV - tomorrow is the Fourth of July and I was thinking about a cookout in the back yard. My son Todd was at a picnic, and should be home soon. My wife was in bed sleeping.

I heard the sirens of emergency vehicles in the distance, and then as the vehicles got closer to my home, the sirens got louder and louder, I looked out the window and saw emergency vehicles - police, ambulances, and a fire truck rush past my home.

I felt a strong knot in my stomach. Little did I know that they were rushing to the scene of an accident that took my only child's life. In a split second our lives would change forever.

Within a five-year period, I lost my son, my job, my mother, my father, my house, and my wife.

A child represents your future, your spouse connects with your past. When you lose them both, you have no future, no connection to the past, only the present, and the present is dark and filled with dismay and uncertainty.

It took ten years to write this book. I wrote the first part after three years, because I wanted to remember my son, but all I could write was about his death. Three years later, I wrote the second part, because I felt well enough, I thought, to be able to finish the book. Another three years would pass before I could write part three, and another year to complete the book.

My life has taken pretty much the same course, in three parts. The normal years before Todd dies, the grieving years of uncertainty and healing, and part three, a new life has emerged.

This book describes what I went through when I lost my only child. It describes a period of time I call the "Five Years of Hell", and how I coped with it. I also explain my recovery period.

Fortunately not everyone takes it as hard as I did, or may not show it, and not every one goes through every thing I did. But I believe there are a lot of things that happened to me, that you will be able to recognize and understand. I hope the book finds its way into the hands of people who want to understand what it's like to lose a child, or help someone who has lost a son or daughter to cope with the loss.

The Guardian Angels I speak of are people and spirits that helped me back to an existence that I never thought I could achieve again. It is nice to be back. And I often wonder if Todd is up there watching me, and saying "Atta boy, Dad!"

In 1999, I lost my husband to cancer. I was 47 at the time, and it took awhile to sort through my emotions and gather the strength to face daily living again. A year and a half into widowhood, I realized how alone I felt going through all those first experiences: taking off my wedding rings, figuring out which side of the bed to sleep on, and getting through our anniversary. I then launched a Web site that generated feedback from other widows and widowers - so they could share their stories and experiences with grief and loss. The response was overwhelming.

From Singapore to England to South Australia, I gathered and organized my Web site's library of material into a book that pays tribute to the millions of people who lose a partner and have to reinvent their lives and try to move forward. The After Journey is a collection of people's thoughts and words of wisdom based on their experiences after suffering a great loss in their lives. Each section begins with my own story and leads into the reflections of others on the same topic, some of those voices drawing tears from readers, while others conjuring sheer laughter and a sense of relief. The book is simply a friend that can hold our hand when getting through the first year alone. It proves that you're not alone in this very personal journey, and that you have every right to do it your own way - embracing every step as one movement closer to finding joy again in life.

You can visit Laurie-Ann Weis on her Website at http://www.laurieannweis.com/