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Death and Dying, Life and Living Links and Biblio:  Loss of a Child/Grandchild

See also Anticipatory Mourning; Bereavement; Children and Grief; Complicated Mourning/Disenfranchised Grief; Counseling the Bereaved;  Grief, Loss of a Parent, Loss of a Partner, Loss of a Sibling; Men and Grief; Prisoner's Families; Rituals;  Sudden Death

Allen, Marie, PhD and Shelly Marks, MS.  Miscarriage:  Women Sharing from the Heart.  John Wiley, 1993. R6648 .A55 1993

Ash, Lorraine.  Life Touches Life:  A Mother's Story of Stillbirth and Healing.  2004.

Bramblett, J.  When Goodbye is Forever: Learning to Live Again After the Loss of a Child.  NY: Ballantine, 1991.

Cacciatore-Garard, Joanne.  Dear Cheyenne:  A Book for Bereaved Parents and For Those Who Love Them.  5th ed. 2002.

Collins, Judy.  Sanity and Grace:  A Journey of Suicide, Survival, and Strength.  2003 (Surviving the loss of her son to suicide)

Crider, Tom.  Give Sorrow Words:  A Father's Passage Through Grief.  Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1996.

Davis, Deborah.  Empty Cradle, Broken Heart:  Surviving the Death of Your Baby.  1996.

Dilts, Michael.  "The Eloquence of Pain: Poetry of Bereaved Fathers Following a Perinatal Loss." Men Coping with Grief, ed. Dale Lund, Baywood, 2001. 349-364.

Finkbeiner, Ann K.  After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss Through the Years.  NY: Free Press, 1996. BF575 .G7 F55 1998

Fritsch, Julie with Sherokee Ilse .  The Anguish of Loss. 2nd ed.  1988.

Gilbert, Kathleen R. and Laura S. Smart.  Coping with Infant or Fetal Loss: The Couple's Healing Process.  NY: Brunner/Mazel, 1992. R6631 .656 1992

Graham, John W. The Gold Star Mother Pilgrimages of the 1930s: Overseas Grave Visitations by Mothers and Widows of Fallen U.S. World War I Soldiers. McFarland & Co., 2005.

Gray, Kathleen.  "Grieving Reproductive Loss: The Bereaved Male." Men Coping with Grief, ed. Dale Lund, Baywood, 2001. 327-338.

Hinton, Clara.  Silent Grief:  Miscarriage.  Finding Your Way Through the Darkness. 2001.

Horchler, Joani Nelson and Robin Rice Morris.  The Sids Survival Guide:  Information and comfort for Grieving Family and FrieNDs and Professionals who Seek to Help Them. 1997.

Housden, Maria.  Hannah's Gift:  Lessons from a Life Fully Lived.  2002 (cancer)

Ilse, Sherokee and Arlene Applebaum, eds..  Empty Arms:  Coping with Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death.  2002.

Klass, Dennis. Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents. 1999. BL625.9 B48 K53 1999.

Kohn, Ingrid, Perry-Linn Moffitt, and Isabelle A. Wilkins.  Silent Sorrow: Pregnancy Loss: Guidance and Support for You and Your Family. 2000.

Lafser, Christine O'Keefe.  Empty Cradle, a Full Heart: Reflections for Mothers and Fathers after Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death.  199

Livingston, Gordon.  Only Spring:  On Mourning the Death of My Son.  1995.  (one Suicide; one Leukemia)

Peterson, Jerre.  Heart Works: A Father's Grief: A Man Share His Journey Through the Circle of Life. 2004.

Reed, Mary Lou.  Grandparents Cry Twice:  Help for Bereaved Grandparents.  Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, 2000.

Rosenblatt, Paul. C.  Parent Grief:  Narratives of Loss and Relationship.  2000.  BF575.G7 R673 2000.

Rothman, Juliet Cassuto.  Bereaved Parent's Survival Guide.  Continuum 2002

Thomese, P. F.  Shadowchild:  A Meditation of Love and Loss.  2003.

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