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Gentle Closings : how to say goodbye to someone you love / Ted Menten.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Menten, Theodore.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bereavement--Psychological aspects.
- Bereavement.
- Death--Psychological aspects.
- Death.
- Grief.
- Anxiety, Separation--psychology.
- Attitude to Death.
- Children--Death.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Terminally ill children--Interpersonal relations.
- Terminally ill children--Psychology.
- Terminally ill persons--Interpersonal relations.
- Terminally ill persons--Psychology.
- Letting go (Psychology).
- grief.
- Medical Subjects:
- Anxiety, Separation--psychology.
- Attitude to Death.
- Grief.
- Local Subjects:
- Children--Death.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Terminally ill children--Interpersonal relations.
- Terminally ill children--Psychology.
- Terminally ill persons--Interpersonal relations.
- Terminally ill persons--Psychology.
- Letting go (Psychology).
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- How to say goodbye to someone you love
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 1991.
- Contents:
- Preface: How it Began
- Introduction
- Part One. Learning to Close. What You Can Do; No Rules except One; Welcome to Harmony; Who is Death?; Memorizing the Moment; Understanding; Believing; Wishing; Accepting; Rounds with Mister Silly; The Tiny Giant; The Bunny and the Eggheads; Living with Dying; Tears to Shed
- Part Two. Saying Goodbye. Dave's Garden; You Light Up My Life; The Voice of Silence; "To Whom It May Concern"; The White Space; In Harmony; Laugh and Let Go; God and What's-His-Name; A Hug; I Am Father, I Am Son; Simplicity; A Place of One's Own; Warning Signs; Make a Memory
- Part Three. Acceptance and Beyond. The Viking Fire; Among the Missing; Untie the Yellow Ribbon; The Sleeping Princess; The Truth About Why; Sentenced to Life; From Sorrow to Remembrance; Dreams; Looking Back, Moving Forward; Love and Let Go
- Part Four. Resources.
- Notes:
- "Editor: Steven Zorn. Cover design by Toby Schmidt. Interior design by Nancy Loggins. Typography CG Palacio and CG Omega by Commcor Communications Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-155).
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copies have dustjackets retained.
- Running Press copies are "1" printings.
- ISBN:
- 1561380040
- 9781561380046
- OCLC:
- 24285931
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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