Reading books aboutgrief,death and mortality should be ever-present throughout our lives, not just limited to times of grief.Death affects us all.Yet it is still a taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood. There are some fascinating books based on personal and professi...
He not only muses about death and the afterlife, but also revels in the minutiae of Ishmael’s here and now. So, if you haven’t read Moby-Dick, give it a try. Read it slowly, a little at a time, and with a guide such as Yiyun Li or Nathaniel Philbrick to steer you through ...
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OF SOUND MIND Fields, Terri. AFTER THE DEATH OF ANNA GONZALES Fisher, Catherine. INCARCERON Fisher, Catherine. SAPPHIQUE Fitch, Sheree. ONE MORE STEP Flake, Sharon. WHO AM I WITHOUT HIM? : SHORT STORIES ABOUT GIRLS AND THE BOYS IN THEIR LIVES Fleischman, Paul. SEEK ...
I am delighted to share my latest publication, a short story about food, death, the afterlife, and one very special frog: Amma’s Kitchen in The Deadlands, Issue 22. I love the fiction and poetry published … Continue reading → Posted in Books and media, mythology, Science fiction and ...
Images of heaven and the spiritual afterlife: Qualitative analysis of children's storybooks about death, dying, grief, and bereavement. Many parents turn to picture books and storybooks to help explain issues surrounding death and dying to their young children. In addition to dealing with topics ...
Her use of the library as a way of processing information, taking stock and thinking her problems through; Her dealing with the suicide of a loved one with books about life and death such as `Raymond Moody's Life After Life, Afterlife,...
And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who...
Yes. It wasn’t unusual for somebody to claim that God was not the literal author of all of scripture. And it also wasn’t unusual to claim that Moses didn’t write every single word of the Torah, because there are passages about his own death and what happened after his death. So,...
To really drive the point home, Socrates relays a series of poetic invocations of the gods and tells a myth about the afterlife. Meno asks him how true any of that is, and Socrates responds by saying “Eh.” and also “We’ll be better men if we think it is, because it will make...