Surviving death : a practical guide to caring for the dying & bereaved /

Meyer, Charles, 1947-,

Surviving death : a practical guide to caring for the dying & bereaved / Charles Meyer. - Rev. and expandedition., second edition. - Mystic, Connecticut : Twenty-Third Publications, (c)1991. - vii, 175 pages ; 22 cm.



How to be with dying persons -- Death myths -- Pulling the plug: how do we decide? -- How to die in the 1990s -- Hastening the inevitable -- Death planning, church denial -- Theology by slogan -- Death and spirituality -- Grief tasks -- Sex after death -- Guidelines for sex after death -- Church after death -- Surviving death -- Afterlife -- The end.

In this positive and straightforward book, Charles Meyer addresses the situations and circumstances surrounding death. He gives readers a practical way of dealing with death, as he attempts to instill in them the freedom to grieve and the wisdom to then move from grief.



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Bereavement--Psychological aspects.
Bereavement--Religious aspects--Christianity.

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