Touching two worlds : a guide for finding hope in the landscape of loss

9781683649670

xi, 270 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Which aisle for deathbed sheets?
Can I have an armband, please?
Suicide and the mental gymnastics of talking of kids
The special art of crying on airplanes
How to talk to grieving people
Triggers (and the unfortunate loss of perfectly good guacamole)
Pen in the wash
Disney: death and murder for children
Don't touch anything (and bring music)
How to survive memorial services: eat all the cookies
The emotional power of office supplies
Busy hands and open hearts
This is not what I ordered
Fight or surrender?
Middle-class cancer
Touching two worlds
Fire, water, and the end of the world
Pants optional
Yoga with dad
The last day
There's a dead body in the living room
The audacity of the sunrise
Binge-watching as a transitional object
Don't rush
The obituary that was never published
Dave is going to die
Angels in the zombie maze
The merry-go-round of horrors
It could be me
When lifelines become entangled
The autopsy in my inbox
The chapter where I grapple with blame and responsibility
Ten thousand answers but no reason why
I can't come with you
Death as light and feathers
You'll never know him
Metamorphosis
Name the ghosts
Heaven: potluck in the sky?
Fuck it--I'm joining the circus
I might be too messed up to go to work
Freud was right : death, sex, and trauma
One year
How to hug a shadow?
Parenting 101: you must get out of bed
Friends whose parents are alive
Public nudity
Too strong for my own good
Wait, how many kids do you have?
Sneaky reemergence of belief
We're all grieving
I'm okay

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