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Title: Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One by Ann Smolin ISBN: 0-671-79660-7 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 22 June, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful Insight of a Terrible Tragedy
Comment: I bought this book nearly four years after my brother took his own life. I wish I'd bought this sooner. The authors did a great job conveying how many of us feel after such a tragedy. This book covers every emotional aspect of suicide survivors and includes a listing of Suicide Prevention and Crisis Centers by state and city.Chapter 3, which covers guilt, was especially helpful because it covers all the what-ifs and should-haves. It explains how that emotion can destroy your health and family, and that there was really nothing you could've done to prevent this from happening. Suicide does not stem from one particular argument or pitfall in a person's life; it is a culmination of things.Chapter 5 is about ambivalence, which covers anger as well as putting the deceased on a pedestal. Another aspect was relief. Those cases I found heartbreaking because of the problems the person put his family through before they died.Chapter 6 talks about the normal depression after the loss versus clinical depression, the latter which many suicides suffer before they die.Chapters 8 through 11 cover the different relationships between the suicide victim and the survivors. I wish they had included a chapter on the friends that were left behind because this doesn't just affect the family. The last chapter covers the siblings, most of which didn't pertain to me. But I did learn from it.The last two chapters of the book cover the pitfalls and healing. This was what I was looking for. In all, this is a good book to read. It is written well and has a straight-forward, honest approach. I read this in two days and plan to pass it on to my family.
Rating: 5
Summary: A MUST READ for those who have lost someone to suicide
Comment: In the wake of my husbands recent suicide, I have been filled with guilt and regret. This book has belped me to realize that it was not my fault that he chose to end his life. The most helpful for me was chapter 3. It is Guilt: "We should have...We could have...". I have visited this place many times in the month since his suicide. The book hepled me to also realize that there was nothing more I could have done to prevent this tragedy. No one but the actual victim of suicide is at fault. I recommend this book to all survivors left behind as the result of a suicide. It has helped me to put things into perspective and has given me the tools to get through my grieving process and the hope to one day live a full and happy life again.
Rating: 3
Summary: not as good as some other books
Comment: Helpful but general - to simplistic. I thought No Time to Say Goodbye was much better written. Maybe because the author lived through this hell herself.
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Title: No Time to Say Goodbye : Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One by CARLA FINE ISBN: 0385485514 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One's Search for Comfort, Answers & Hope by Albert Y. Hsu ISBN: 0830823182 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: After Suicide (Christian Care Books) by John H. Hewett ISBN: 0664242960 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1980 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: My Son...My Son: A Guide to Healing After a Suicide in the Family by Iris Bolton ISBN: 0961632607 Publisher: Bolton Press Atlanta Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Standing in the Shadow: Help and Encouragement for Suicide Survivors by June Cerza Kolf ISBN: 0801063957 Publisher: Baker Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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