San Antonio College Library

Presents a practical guide to dealing with grief; and offers personal case studies and advice that help individuals find peace, acceptance, and strength to move on.

Many of the greatest philosophers of the Western world as far back as Socrates and Cicero have meditated and written on the mystery of human suffering and death. In cases of suffering and tragic death, religious faith can be shaken and severely tested. Being told that it is the will of God is not a satisfactory explanation for tragedy in the view of many people. The methodology of Reflections on Death, Dying and Bereavement is mainly philosophical....

While acknowledging that there are no easy answers when it comes to suicide, the author draws on the resources of the Christian faith to point suicide survivors to the God who offers comfort in their grief and hope for the future.

Following an accident that ended the lives of his family, a novelist struggles with survivor's guilt and writer's block while limiting his human contacts to a Kurdish neighbor and a woman he glimpses in a flat across the road.

Luxmoore explores the problems that arise when death is not openly discussed with young people and offers invaluable advice about how best to allay concerns without having to pretend that there are easy answers.

"The word "orphan" might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like "a glove left behind at the bus station." What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere,...