Highly Recommended Suicide, Loss, and Grief Books

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• The Rooms of Heaven by Mary Allen. This book has taken my #1 to-read for 1999. Mary's book dares to combine the kind of insight that many of us in this society are afraid to face when it comes to death; much less the death of a kindred soul to suicide. She, as I, lost her soul companion in the midst of a life that could not hold them from finding some escape from a solitude that was too loud. Mary, thank you for giving this to us, for sharing this.

  
  

  • No Time To Say Goodbye by Carla Fine.
    
    
    
  • Stephen Lives! by Anne Puryear.
    
    
  • A Special Scar: The Experience of People Bereaved By Suicide by Alison Wertheimer.
    
    
  • For Women Who Grieve: Embracing Life After the Death of Your Partner by Tangea Tansley.
    
    
  • My Son...My Son: A Guide To Healing After Death, Loss, or Suicide by Iris Bolton.
    
    
    
  • Healing After The Suicide of A Loved One by Ann Smolin and John Guinan.
    
    
    
  • Time Remembered: A Journal For Survivors by Earl A. Grollman.
    
    
  • Companion Through The Darkness: Inner Dialogues on Grief by Stephanie Ericsson.
    
    
  • A Time To Grieve: Meditations for Healing After The Death Of A Loved One by Carol Staudacher.
    
    
  • Losing A Parent: Passage To A New Way Of Living by Alexandra Kennedy.
    
    
  • The Messengers: A True Story Of Angelic Presence And The Return To The Age of Miracles by Julia Ingram and G.W. Hardin.
    
    
    
  • By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept by Paulo Coelho.
    
    
    
  • In The Wake of Suicide by Victoria G. Alexander.
    
    
    
  • Why Me? Why This? Why Now? by Robin Norwood. I am currently reading this, and it is excellent. It discusses how we can face unbearable adversity in life.
    
    
  • Suddenly Single: A Lifeline For Anyone Who Has Lost A Love by Hal and Susan Larson.
    
    
    
  • The Wheel of Life by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
    
    
    
  • Working It Through: An Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Workshop on Life, Death, and Transition by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
    
    
  • Why We Live After Death by Richard Steinpach.
    
    
  • Or Not To Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes by Marc Etkind.
    
    
    
  • The Other Victims of Suicide by Sharon Craft.
    
    
  • Death, The Final Stage of Growth by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
    
    
  • Life After Life by Raymond Moody.
    
    
  • Suicide Survivors Handbook: A Guide To The Bereaved And Those Who Wish To Help Them by Trudy Carlso.
    
    
  • Waking Up, Alive: The Descent, The Suicide Attempt, and The Return To Life by Richard Heckler.
    
    
    
  • Waking Up, Alive: Life Lessons from Survivors of Suicide Attempts by Richard Heckler. Audio cassette.
    
    
  • Silent Grief: Living In The Wake Of Suicide by Christopher Lukas and Henry Seiden.
    
    
  • Hello From Heaven! by Bill & Judy Guggenheim.
    
    
    
  • George Anderson's Conversations With The Other Side.
    
    
    
  • A Mother's Story by Gloria Vanderbilt.
    
    
    
  • Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
    
    
    
  • The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.
    
    
    
  • Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and The Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison.
    
    
    
  • My Garden Visits by Justin Matott.
    
    
    
  • Life After Suicide: A Ray of Hope For Those Left Behind by E. Betsy Ross.
    
    
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
    
    
    
  • The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield.
    
    
  • Why Suicide: Answers to 200 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Suicide, Attempted Suicide, and Assisted Suicide by Eric Marcus.
    
    
    
  • Light Beyond The Darkness: The Healing of A Suicide Across the Threshold of Death by Dore Deverell.
    
    
    
  • A Slender Thread by Diane Ackerman.
    
    
  • When Living Hurts by Sol Gordon.
    
    
  • Step Back From The Exit: 45 Reasons To Say No To Suicide by Jillayne Arena.
    
    
  • The Courage To Grieve by Judy Tatelbaum.
    
    
    
  • I Remember You: A Grief Journal by Laynee Wild.
    
    
    
  • Remembering With Love: Messages of Hope for the First Year of Grieving And Beyond by Elizabeth Levang and Sherokee Ilse.
    
    
    
  • After A Suicide: Young People Speak Up by Susan Kuklin.
    
  
  
  
  
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  Dedicated To My Love: Michael David Williams, and to all Survivors of Suicide.

  
  
  
  This page last updated March 11, 1998