Don't Let Death Ruin Your Life: A Practical Guide to Reclaiming Happiness After the Death of a Loved One

by Jill Brooke

The author, a CNN correspondent and Daily News journalist, shares her insights into the grieving process as she explains how a time of bereavement can be transformed into an opportunity for positive change and growth. 20,000 first printing.

Genres: Grief, Self Help

288 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2001

Reviews

[Patricia Allor]

This book would be a good book for family members and friends of someone who has had a loss to read. To better understand what the grieving person is going through. The author very accurately described the pain, sorrow, anger and craziness of grief. I felt comforted reading that others have felt the same as me after suffering a loss.

The second half of the book was more about different ways to keep memories alive and making a life/memory book.

[Sharon]

"Loss is not something you should get over. Loss is something you live with. After all, what is grief but an emotion that says you have loved someone?" --pg. 14
"One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find." -George Sand --pg. 88
"Death ends a life. Not a relationship." -Morrie Schwartz --pg. 200

[Tom]

Words of comfort and suggestions as to how to move on, while still remembering a loved, after their death.
Special meaning for this book because it was given to me by a colleague that I did not realize was thinking of me and my family.

[Dawn]

Some good suggestions