Publisher's Synopsis
A collection of stories, poems, short memoirs, and expository pieces about people's direct experiences with death and dying. From a death professionals like clergy and a mortician to a police officer seeing his first young person killed in a car accident; from a child whose parent commits suicide to a child who experiences one parent murdering the other; from Iraq and Lebanon and Bosnia and the United States these stories are moving and instructive. A section tells how different religions treat death is helpful in knowing how to relate to friends of various religious identities. Written by people in the U.S, Middle East, Europe, India, and Australia, and including deaths by illness, war, police or gang violence, suicide, murder, this collection of short pieces will assist the living to better grieve as they experience the mortality of those they love (and their own mortality) whatever way it comes.
Authors:
Donald Betts, Jr.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Julie Ann Baker Brin
Sharon Hill Cranford
J. Rae Rice-Cranford
Brian Daldorph
Robert L. Dean, Jr.
Aida Dziho-Sator
Charles (Ohiyesa) Eastman
Gretchen Cassel Eick
Richard Eick
Eyyup Essen
Cammie Funston
Linda Gebert
Edward Ernest Goode
Michael D. Graves
Hafiz
Judy Keller Hatteberg
George Hough
Tom Hull
Miriam Iwashige
Billy Dee Johnston
Mohan Kambampati
Erin Kyna
Ruth Maus
Najiyah Maxfield
Mark McCormick
Ronda Miller
Amena Mohamad
Susan Moir
John Monroe-Cassel
Jim Potter
Cora Poage
Michael Poage
Rumi
Mark Scheel
Julie Stielstra
Janet Jenkins-Stotts
Maaskelah Kimit Thomas
Diane Wahto
Phillip Wood
