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Overview

Losing a parent suddenly or to terminal illness brings about a particular kind of grief. Whatever your particular circumstance, this book will guide and support you.

Author Fiona Marshall offers insightful and practical strategies for you to use in dealing with your own dying father or mother, your newly widowed parent, and with other family members.

Losing A Parent offers comforting and inspiring advice for helping you cope with the different and difficult effects of loss. Turn today's grief and pain, sadness and loss, and feelings of abandonment, rage, guilt and anger into hope, new ...

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Overview

Losing a parent suddenly or to terminal illness brings about a particular kind of grief. Whatever your particular circumstance, this book will guide and support you.

Author Fiona Marshall offers insightful and practical strategies for you to use in dealing with your own dying father or mother, your newly widowed parent, and with other family members.

Losing A Parent offers comforting and inspiring advice for helping you cope with the different and difficult effects of loss. Turn today's grief and pain, sadness and loss, and feelings of abandonment, rage, guilt and anger into hope, new strength and maturity to carry on.

A personal guide to coping with that special grief that comes with losing a parent.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780738209951
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press
  • Publication date: 8/16/2004
  • Pages: 176
  • Sales rank: 220,249
  • Product dimensions: 6.12 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 0.47 (d)

Meet the Author

Fiona Marshall has written several books on topics concerning health, psychology, and parenting. She lives in England.

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When Death Comes

NO MATTER WHAT EMOTIONAL PREPARATIONS we have made for death, it is hard to accept when it actually does take place -- our sense of reality is shaken so deeply. It’s surprising how much we need our day-to-day routine to feel strong.

Small changes are upsetting, such as having your desk moved at work or having a toothache. Now, with the normal routine destroyed, with the unthinkable actually happening, your mind may be unable to believe or understand what is going on. The time up to death, the event itself and the time just afterward touch us too closely to be viewed within the normal parameters of life.

Like it or not, we are cut off from the events of an ordinary day. Like war, death cuts through all ordinary conditions, but rest assured this experience will eventually be assimilated into the fabric of your life. Things will return to normal, new beginnings will emerge.

You will discover unsuspected sources of strength and maturity within yourself, but the process will be painful. You will forge new bonds with other people -- not immediately when you feel that no one can understand or enter into your grief, but in the long term.

There’s a temptation after dealing with a parent’s death to divide people into insiders (those who have also suffered) and outsiders (those still living in ignorance of what death really means). When this mellows with time, it can leave you with a valuable appreciation of other people and their problems.

Finally, you may feel stronger for having had to confront some of life’s deepest questions, for having looked death in the face and perhaps formulated your own concept of it to sustain you through life.

All this is in the future, outside the immediate context of your parent dying, but hang on to the idea. There is indeed a future, more varied and enriching than you can imagine in the desolate circumstances of the present.

Copyright © 2001 Fisher Books. All rights reserved.

Table of Contents


1 Terminal Illness: Anticipating Death 1
2 You and Your Dying Parent 17
3 When Death Comes 32
4 Sudden Death 42
5 Abandoned-Child Grief 55
6 Loss Patterns 71
7 Inheritance: New Possessions, New Ideas? 89
8 You and Your Surviving Parent 101
9 Help 113
10 Starting to Live Again 127
11 Towards Maturity:
What They Didn't Live to See 140
Further Reading & Useful Addresses 151
Index 158

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  • Posted July 6, 2009

    Healing

    I have not read as much of this book as I thought I might as more seems to be towards long illnesses. My father passed quickly and I needed something else.

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  • Anonymous

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    Where was this book when I needed it???

    After my father died in 1998 I fell into to the 'I have to be strong for everybody' and it just about took over my life. I didn't buy the book until 2000 and I bought it by chance and thought that this book really could have come in handy back in 1998. I have recommended it to many people that feel that same way about this book. It is an excellent reference. Thank you Fiona Marshall for writing a book like this one!!

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