by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 5, 2018 |
Empty Arms: Coping With Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death Empty Arms is written for Surviving the First Hours and Beyond. Revised and updated! This classic book is one of the first given to newly bereaved parents to offer guidance in decision-making after their...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 4, 2018 |
What Doctors Don’t Learn About Death and Dying I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them. I was given a dry, leathery corpse to dissect in my first term — but that was solely a way to learn about human anatomy. Our textbooks...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 3, 2018 |
Book: “Confessions of a Funeral Director” by Caleb Wilde The metanarrative that we’ve been given is that death is entirely negative. We use war metaphors to describe our personal “battles” with terminal sickness as though we believe death is an enemy that...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 3, 2018 |
Blog: “Why Suicide?” by Eric Marcus Eric Marcus is the author of several books, including Why Suicide?, Is It A Choice?, and Making Gay History. He is also co-author of Breaking the Surface, the #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography of Olympic...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 1, 2018 |
Diary of a Widower Daily entries by a husband, who stayed behind with his two sons When the unimaginable happens. Suddenly your wife dies. You stay behind with two little boys. How do you cope? Grieving on a daily basis, as an adult and as children. Crying, laughing,...
