A sincere effort to be as comprehensive as possible to try to help all those who grieve.

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	• I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One Brook Noel Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 72 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Very helpful for survivors

I first heard about this book in the "Ask Amy" advice column. I have given copies to my grown daughter and to a co-worker who each faced a sudden death of a loved one. Both said the book helped them through a very difficult experience. I cannot recommend this book too highly.

Ok, but not the best resource out there

I read this book to help me cope with the sudden death of a loved one. It was somewhat helpful, but it mainly covered the same information in another book I read in a much less comprehensive manner. That book is How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies by Therese Rando and I highly recommend reading that book. It is the best I have read on the topic of grief/death/mourning. These authors had good intentions, but I think you will get more out of the Rando book.

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Recommend for those grieving as well as those supporting others

I liked this book and would recommend it for anyone who has lost someone suddenly or for anyone who wants to understand what that person is going through. The authors speak from personal experiences and offer different perspectives on how people experience sudden loss. The book goes into the stages of grieving and then discusses how others are affected when they loose a parent, child, partner, sibling etc... The book includes exercises for dealing with the grieving process. There is also a workbook available with more tools for dealing with this type of loss.

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A sincere effort to be as comprehensive as possible to try to help all those who grieve.

This book is a worthwhile read if, for nothing else, Chapter 19 which contains a list of Resources and Support, both available support groups and recommendations for reading. There are also a number of helpful exercises i.e. suggestions for journal writing, letters to the deceased, etc. that are of healing value. It is evident that the authors put a lot of work into producing this book. There seemed to be a bias in it however that the loss of a child or a sibling was MORE painful than the loss of a parent. Particularly there was not as much support listed in the book for the adult children of deceased parents. It may well be that there just is not as much available on the subject for the authors to list. This is the 11th book on grieving I have read since my father's death in August and Dr Kubler-Ross book ON GRIEVE AND GRIEVING remains the most powerfully written and most helpful book on grief that I have read to date. However there is MUCH in I WASN'T READY TO SAY GOODBYE that is helpful if one takes the time to read the book carefully sifting out what is useful and discarding the rest. It just doesn't STAY consistently in that mode.

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I bought this for a friend who had lost her husband. She thanks me all the time for the book. She said it was well written and helped her a lot throughout her grieving.

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Now there is a hand to hold...

Each year about eight million Americans suffer the death of a close family member. The list of high visibility disasters, human suffering and sudden loss in long and will continue to grow. From TWA Flight 800 to Egypt Air 990, from Oklahoma City to Columbine, daily we face incomprehensible loss. Outside the publicized tragedies there are many families and individuals that are suffering behind closed doors in our neighborhoods, in our own homes, in hospital waiting rooms. Now for those who face the challenges of sudden death, there is a hand to hold written by two women who have experience sudden loss.

In a book that will touch, comfort, uplift and console, authors Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D. explore sudden death and its role in the cycle of life. Tapping the personal histories of both authors and numerous interviews, I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye shows grieving readers how to endure, survive and grow from the pain and turmoil surrounding human loss.

For survivors this valuable book provides a rock-steady anchor from which to weather the storm of pain and begin to rebuild their lives.

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