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by Ann K Finkbeiner (Author) "I have a mental picture of myself in my twenties, standing on a hillside talking to a neighbor, with my four-year-old son wandering somewhere behind..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins Paperbacks Ed edition (Jul 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 080185914X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0801859144
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.7 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 417,830 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"The bravery that Ann Finkbeiner must have had to write this book is incredible... By using her own and other parents' experiences, the author makes the issues speakable, and a sense of peace through connectedness with these parents is conveyed to the reader." -- Marceil Bauman-Bork, MD, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

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Examines the long-term nature of parental grief through the tales of those who suffer it. For her text, the author, herself a bereaved parent, asked questions of 30 parents whose child had died at least five years before, of all causes and at all ages. She combined the research and the parents answers into a description of the parents' new lives. The parents talk about their changed marriages and their changed relationships with their other children, with their friends and relatives. The text includes their conversations about their attempts to make sense of the death and about their drastically changed priorities. The text concludes with descriptions of how parents move on through their grief, get on with their lives, but never let go of their children.

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5.0 out of 5 stars No one should have to read this book, 16 Sep 1997
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This review is from: After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss through the Years (Hardcover)
This book contains some of the most painful, and at the same time the most helpful writing I have read since the death of my own son. Those who will choose to read it will do so because they have experienced the most devastating loss imaginable - the death of a child. Ann Finkbeiner is right when she says her book is not for the newly bereaved. There are no comforting platitudes, no 12 steps, no meditations. No words of wisdom, no instructions for "getting over it", since, as she says, and everyone who has been there knows - there IS no getting over it. There's just learning a different way to live the rest of your life, learning to live with the pain. You'll only read it if you have the need to, and if you have need to, please know that I'm very sorry.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Nice try, but too light, 21 April 1999
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I'd agree with Charleston; better books exist on the subject. ("Gili's Book", for one)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work on a difficult subject., 16 Feb 1999
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This review is from: After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss through the Years (Hardcover)
This was one of the most helpful books I have read on the death of a child over the past ten years. My son died sixteen years ago and I was very interested to read a book dealing with the long term results of the loss of a child. This book dealt with many topics which are covered in the majority of books on grief but dealt with them from the view of parents who have moved several years away from the loss. After all, when a child dies you are still dealing with that death five years later, ten years later and throughout the remainder of your lifeCfs
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One of the best books I've read since my son died is "When the Bough Breaks : Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter"; Judith R., Phd Bernstein. Read more
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