How Children and Their Parents Can and Do Cope With Death
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"On Children and Death" by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross offers compassionate support to families of dying children, addressing fears and anguish with warmth and simplicity. On Children and Death is a major addition to the classic works of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, whose On Death and Dying and Living with Death and Dying have been continuing sources of strength and solace for tens of millions of devoted readers worldwide. Based on a decade of working with dying children, this compassionate book offers the families of dead and dying children the help -- and hope -- they need to survive. In warm, simple language, Dr. Kübler-Ross speaks directly to the fears, doubts, anger, confusion, and anguish of parents confronting the terminal illness or sudden death of a child. ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Reflections1 Letter to Bereaved Parents2 The Beginnings of Life3 Sudden Death4 Head Injuries and Coma5 The Natural Way to Prepare Children for Life6 Loss as a Catalyst for Growth and Understanding7 Missing and Murdered Children and Childhood Suicide8 Alternative Treatments: Visualization9 Children's Inner Knowledge of Death and Their Symbolic Language10 How Can Friends Help?11 Letting Go12 Funerals13 Spiritual Aspects of the Work with Dying Children BibliographyFrom the Shanti Nilaya Library
