Finding a Sacred Oasis in Grief

This work includes a foreword by John D Morgan, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Coordinator for Kings College Center for Education about Death and Bereavement, Ontario, Canada

Steven Jeffers, Harold Ivan Smith

Pastoral care: grounded in being. A ministry of presence with the bereaved. Grief: an anthology. Anniversary grief. Anticipatory grief. Delayed grief. Destructive-redemptive grief. Disenfranchised grief. Exaggerated grief. Inhibited grief. Stacked grief. Traumatic grief. When a baby dies: the loss of a dream. When a loved one dies children play and cry. Adolescents: grief's in-between generation. Men and women: do they grieve the same? Living with suicide: a grief like no other. Stages of grief: fact or fiction? Where is God? Is there life after death for me? Diversity of beliefs about end-of-life issues among differing religions. Baha'I. Buddhism. Christianity. Hinduism. Islam. Judaism. Native American. What about final arrangements? Rituals: a necessity for healthy grief.