From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of...

Kurt Cobain, Anne Sexton, Mark Rothko, Ernest Hemingway, Adolf Hitler . . . all famous, some rich and powerful, some beloved, some abhorred. But when life and circumstance got to be too much, each headed for the exit door. Sigmund Fre...

"To write a beautiful book about suicide . . . to transform the subject into something beautiful—this is the forbidding task that A. Alvarez set for himself. . . . He has succeeded."—New York Times"Suicide," writes the notes Engli...

For much of his thirties, Jesse Bering thought he was probably going to kill himself. He was a successful psychologist and writer, with books to his name and bylines in major magazines. But none of that mattered. The impulse to take h...

NOW WITH A NEW CHAPTER AND AN UPDATED RESOURCES SECTIONSuicide has touched the lives of nearly half of all Americans, yet it is rarely talked about openly. In her highly acclaimed book, Susan Blauner—a survivor of multiple suicide a...

Part of the Grief Diaries series dedicated to offering comfort, company and hope in the aftermath of life's challenges and losses, Grief Diaries: Loss of a Child is a collection of intimate and candid narrations from different writer...

Two weeks before his college graduation, Kelley Clink's younger brother Matt hanged himself. Though he'd been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager and had attempted suicide once before, the news came as a shock―and it sent ...

Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. Distressing statistics show that suicide rates are rising, and studies confirm that suicide causes more suicide, both among those who knew t...

Published  2002, the revised, 3rd edition of the bestseller "Final Exit" describes the ways in which a dying person may consider hastening the end of their life if suffering is unbearable. Laws and ethics are outlined in a straightf...

Featured in Publishers Weekly, 8/8/18"There's so much silence around suicide in the church that it is quite literally killing us." --Rachael KeefeWould you know how to respond if the person sitting next to you in your pew wa...

The newspaper headline read, "Dead Man Found Hanging in Attic: Suicide or Murder?" What happens behind closed doors is not always a secret. Prey often fight back. Enter the fearful world of Daniel and the other members of th...

Wake Me from the Nightmare helps people awaken from the nightmare of suicide loss. Survivors of suicide loss are left to live in a chronic state of shock, horror, and devastation. Broken and raw, they forge on, while plagued with pain...

Physicians are known to be a group of professionals who are at risk of taking their own lives. In this easy-to-read book, Dr. Michael Myers, a psychiatrist and specialist in physician health, attempts to explain the mystery of why som...

For those thinking about suicide, and for those who know, love, or counsel them, this book discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the con...

Storytelling is one of our oldest traditions--yes, even older than the hokey pokey. Stories can make us laugh or cry... or both at the same time. They can teach, inspire and even ignite an entire movement. The i'Mpossible Project: Re...

What do you do when your father dies by suicide while you are in the hospital awaiting the birth of your triplets?What do you do when you can't attend your father's funeral because physician orders include complete bed rest?What do yo...

For anyone who has experienced the suicide of a loved one, coworker, neighbor, or acquaintance and is seeking information about coping with such a profound loss, this compassionate guide explores the unique responses inherent to thei...

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