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• Books for loss survivors | AFSP

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  "A listing of books from which we hope loss survivors will find helpful information and guidance as they navigate their healing journey." (AFSP, 2024) | NOTE: The list below includes only the books from the AFSP resource list currently…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day | AFSP

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  "International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day is an event in which survivors of suicide loss come together to find connection, understanding, and hope through their shared experience. This year, International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dying to Be Free: a Healing Guide for Families after a Suicide

  Cobain, Beverly • Larch, Jean

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  Practical guides for coping with a suicide loss | "Co-authored by a crisis intervention specialist and a cousin of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the band Nirvana who took his life in 1994, this book combines personal accounts from loss…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wilderness of Suicide Grief

  Finding Your Way

  Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph. D.

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  Practical guides for coping with a suicide loss | "Using the metaphor of grief as a wilderness, this guidebook, written by a grief counselor, offers ten wisdom teachings, including being open to the presence of loss, misconceptions about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Mother's Reckoning

  Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

  Klebold, Sue

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  Loss survivor stories | "Written by the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the shooters in the Columbine High School tragedy of 1999, this powerful book chronicles Sue Klebold’s journey as a mother trying to come to terms with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Empty Chair

  The Journey of Grief After Suicide

  Glover, Beryl S.

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  Loss survivor stories | "The grief process, as experienced by people dealing with varying emotions following the suicide of a family member."

• Hope After Suicide: One Woman's Journey From Darkness to Light

  Parmley, Wendy

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  Loss survivor stories | "After losing her mother to suicide when she was twelve years old, Parmley learned firsthand the anguish, despair, and loneliness of survivors of suicide loss. Hope after Suicide shares her story of sorrow and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Time to Say Goodbye

  Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One

  Fine, Carla

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  Loss survivor stories | "Drawing on the experience of losing her husband to suicide and subsequent interviews with scores of suicide loss survivors, as well as the expertise of counselors and mental health professionals, Carla Fine…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Still With Us

  Voices of Sibling Suicide Loss Survivors

  Various Authors

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  Loss survivor stories | "The essays in Still With Us are arranged chronologically to move the reader from the first years of grieving to decades of healing. The authors commemorate the love that they continue to have for their siblings by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• But I Didn't Say Goodbye

  Helping Families After a Suicide

  Rubel, Barbara

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  Helping children | "Narrated by a child, this book is intended for adults to read and then share with children."

• My Uncle Keith Died

  Carol Ann Loehr

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  Helping children | "Written in clear, simple language easily understood by children, this book offers hope and practical methods to explain suicide to children. It explains the difference between sadness and depression, and describes how…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Was Here

  Forman, Gayle

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  For adolescents and teenagers | "Gayle Forman’s poignant young adult novel follows Cody’s search to understand why her friend Meg ended her life. The publisher describes the book as “a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I See You Everywhere

  Glass, Julia

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  Poetry and novels | "National Book Award–winning novelist Julia Glass gracefully chronicles the complex relationship between two sisters, one steady and one restless. After one sister takes her life, the other is left to mourn the loss and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Unquiet Mind

  A Memoir of Moods and Madness

  Jamison, Kay Redfield

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  Understanding suicide and mental illness | "In this memoir, an international authority on bipolar disorder describes her own struggle since adolescence with the disorder, and how it has shaped her life."

• Darkness Visible

  a Memoir of Madness

  Styron, William, 1925-2006

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  Understanding suicide and mental illness | "A powerful and moving first-hand account of what depression feels like to the sufferer."

• Night Falls Fast

  Understanding Suicide

  Redfield Jamison, Kay

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  Understanding suicide and mental illness | "Kay Redfield Jamison’s in-depth psychological and scientific exploration of suicide traces the network of reasons underlying suicide, including the factors that interact to cause suicide, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Noonday Demon

  An Atlas Of Depression

  Solomon, Andrew

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  Understanding suicide and mental illness | "Winner of the National Book Award, this book shares the author’s story of chronic depression, and places depression in a broader social context."

• A Long-Shadowed Grief

  Suicide and Its Aftermath

  Harold Ivan Smith

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  Inspiration | "Written from a Christian perspective, this book by a former funeral director who survived his cousin’s suicide explores the aftermath of suicide through the lenses of spirituality and theology."

• Take the Dimness of My Soul Away

  Healing After a Loved One's Suicide

  Ritter, William A.

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  Inspiration | "Reverend Ritter shares a moving collection of his sermons and notes following his son’s death by suicide. Throughout this God-centered journey, Ritter’s poignant words explore how spiritual healing is possible after the loss…Read moreRead more of this annotation