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| | | Book Reviews and Recommendations | | | Have you read a book that has helped, comforted or inspired you? If you would like to share it with us then send us an email at ifishoulddieweb@yahoo.co.uk To order books, visit your local book shop or www.amazon.co.uk
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By Doris Stickney
| | Publisher: | United Church Press | | Suitable For: | Children | | Review/ Synopsis: | Specially aimed at children, it helps to explain death through the analogy of the waterbugs short life under water and their emergence as dragonflies as the human's life after death. | | Review Submitted By: | A. Reader | | Click Here to view or buy this book at Amazon.co.uk |
| | | | Help, Comfort and Hope After Losing Your Baby in Pregnancy or the First Year
By Hannah Lothrop
| | Publisher: | Fisher Books | | Suitable For: | Any parent who has suffered loss of a child, whatever circumstances. | | Review/ Synopsis: | This book has been an absolute solace to my wife and myself. My wife and I have one very healthy, active child and we made the very difficult decision of terminating our second pregnancy due to Downs (Not a decision I would wish on my worst enemy). This book gave hope and comfort throughout and can be picked up anytime and flicked through or read from cover to cover. it is now helping once again as my wife has just suffered a miscarriage and we will need this book and each other to cope and to look forward to something in the future....July 2002
| | Review Submitted By: | Ian Barclay | | Click Here to view or buy this book at Amazon.co.uk |
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If There's Anything I Can Do....
How to help someone who has been bereaved
By Caroline Doughty
White Ladder Press
Review/Synopsis
When someone loses a partner, wife or husband, it can be incredibly hard to know what to say or how to help. You’re desperate to do something, but what? The only people who can really answer that question are those who have been there themselves.
Caroline Doughty is a professional writer whose partner died four years ago leaving her with two young children. Acutely aware that everyone’s experience is different, and not everyone necessarily feels as she did, she interviewed many other bereaved people before writing If There’s Anything I Can Do…, which is an invaluable guide to helping the bereaved.
Caroline writes movingly about how it feels to face life alone, but her main aim is to impart as much practical, helpful advice as possible. Anyone with a relative or friend who has recently lost their partner will find this book packed with reassuring suggestions for helping out without getting in the way, and guidance on the odd pitfall to avoid.
Whether you’re supporting someone young or old, family or friend, this is a book that will help you do the very best for them. Readers who have reached an age where many of their contemporaries are losing partners will find it an invaluble reference to have sitting on the shelf.
We Need To Talk About the Funeral: 101 Practical Ways to Commemorate and Celebrate Life
by Jan Morell and Simon Smith £14.99
Accent Press Ltd
Review/Synopsis
Packed with real life stories, practical ideas, soulful words and uplifting photographs, this beautiful book sensistively offers the information and inspiration needed at a time of distress.
It's Your Funeral
Inspiring ideas for a personal send-off
by Emma George £7.99
White Ladder Press
Review/Synopsis
When someone dies, the traditional choice is between a church funeral or a crematorium service. Amid all the grief it can be hard to see beyond these options, yet an unsatisfactory funeral can leave the bereaved family feeling even worse.
It’s Your Funeral guides the reader through all the options, from the traditional to the highly unusual. Funerals don’t have to be sombre, formal affairs conducted by strangers, in surroundings dominated by formica, to the sound of organ music. This step-by-step guide takes the reader through the practicalities, what has to be done, but also the choices – what you can do if you want. It’s about what’s possible. You might want a traditional church or crematorium service, or you might want something very different.
The important thing is to achieve a send-off that really feels as if it belongs to the person who has died.
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