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Grief Resource Library
(The following may be borrowed free of charge)
Audio-Visual (VHS):
1: Funeral Service: Serving People, Serving Needs (8 minutes):
Depicts funeral service today in its capacity of assisting survivors following a death. Discusses forms of disposition, individuality of funerals today, costs, role of the funeral director and more.
2: Advice for Friends of the Bereaved (10 minutes):
Offers advice…what to do, what not to do…when a friend loses a loved one. It also acquaints the audience with the symptoms of grief, enabling them to know what they might expect from their bereaved friend.
3: Living When a Loved One has died (19 minutes):
In a practical and personal way, this program explains the normal feelings encountered when a loved one dies, and how to cope with these feelings as we work toward a new life. Based on the popular Earl Grollman book.
4: A Time to Live…A Time to Die (39 minutes):
Helps students understand death as an integral part of the life process. Explores the complicated but normal emotions involved with the death.
5: But He Was Only Seventeen: The Death of a Friend (37 minutes):
Helps young people and adults recognize their feelings about the death, specifically the sudden death of a peer. Explains there are no right/wrong ways of grieving.
6: Talking About Death With Children (13 minutes):
Explains to children in their own terms what death means, why it occurs, and why we have funerals. Ideal for both parents and children.
7: A Taste of Blackberries (16 minutes):
The animated story of a young boy whose best friend dies suddenly. It relates his courage in facing the death and the enormity of his grief.
8: Understanding Grief: Kids Helping Kids (14 minutes):
This sensitive film is designed for adolescents 9-14. Children are interviewed who have actually lost a loved one or pet. They discuss their feelings and what made them feel better. The result is a very real film about real emotions.
9: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome – The Unfulfilled Promise (19 minutes):
Provides valuable guidance and information that can help any individual, professional or group that may come into contact with surviving family members.
10: Did Jenny Have to Die? Preventing Teen Suicide (41 minutes):
This gripping drama deals with one teenage suicide, revealing some of the warning signs, causes and ways of preventing suicide. Effectively told as witnessed through the eyes of family members, friends, teachers and the victim herself.
11: Teens Who Chose Life, The Suicidal Crisis (45 minutes):
Tells the stories of three teenagers who attempted suicide and survived, and who go on to tell what a mistake suicide is. Emphasizes that there are other ways to cope with stress and depression.
12: Crack! (15 minutes):
Alerts viewers to the dangers of Crack Cocaine. Attributes the alarming popularity among teens to its trendiness, low cost, availability and ease of use. Interviews with six former teenage addicts.
13: How Can I tell if I’m Hooked (25 minutes):
Without preaching or criticizing, this superb program assists teenagers in recognizing possible addiction in themselves or peers. Discusses addiction to alcohol, drugs, cigarette smoking and over-eating.
14: When Your Loved One is Dying (17 minutes):
This program affords significant emotional support for family members dealing with a terminally ill loved one. The viewer will benefit in learning how to cope with his/her feelings.
15: Because Life Was Lived – Planning Ahead (10 minutes):
This film presents the need for effective estate planning and the value of pre-arranging one’s funeral.
16: Listen to Your Sadness (17 minutes):
Finding hope again after despair has invaded your life.
17: How Do I Go On? (21 minutes):
Gives some ideas as to ways to redesign your life after crisis has changed it
18: Invincible Summer (16 minutes):
Returning to life after someone has died.
Books:
1) The Complete Funeral Guide – Patricia A. Simone (A resource to the Practical and Emotional issues before, during and after the funeral.)
2) The Losin’ Blues – Kathy Dawson (After loss, Learning how to cope with grief)
3) Living When a Loved One has Died - Earl A. Grollman
4) For the Living - Edgar N. Jackson (A sound, helpful contribution to the discussion of funeral practice.)
5) Concerning Death: A Practical Guide for the Living – Earl A. Grollman
6) Don’t Take My Grief Away From Me – Doug Manning (How to walk through grief and learn to live again).
7) Beyond Sorrow – Herb and Mary Montgomery (Reflections on death and grief)
8) Encourage Me – Charles R. Swindoll (Caring words for a heavy heart)
9) When Life is Changed Forever – Rick Taylor (Here is a journey into the depth’s of God’s love for all those who have experienced the emotions brought about by the death of someone near)
10) Roses in December – Marilyn Willett Heavilin (Finding strength within grief)
11) Sometimes I Hurt – Mildred Tengbom (Reflections on the book of Job)
12) Good Grief – Granger E. Westberg (A constructive approach to the difficulty of loss)
13) You and Your Grief – Edgar N. Jackson (A compassionate, warm and helpful talk about grieving.)
14) On Death & Dying – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, MD (What the dying have to teach doctors, nurses, clergy and their own families)
15) Living With Death and Dying – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross MD
16) Instantly a Widow – Ruth Sissom
17) Questions & Answers on Death & Dying – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross MD
18) Learning to Say Goodbye – When a Parent Dies – Edna LeShan (This sincere, sensitive and supportive book can help many a family through its hardest time)
19) For Those Who Hurt – Charles R. Swindoll
20) Finding the Right Words – Wilfred Bockelman (Offering comfort when you don’t know what to say)
21) Gone But Not Lost – David W. Wiersbe (As a pastor, the author gives simple answers and honest hopes to parents after the death of a child.)
22) Why Mine – Joy & Marv Johnson & Billy Williams (A book for parents whose child is seriously ill)
23) Help for Bereaved Parents – Mildred Tengbom
24) A Beginning – Nancy E. Malcolm & Bonnie L. Wooten (This book is intended as a beginning for parents experiencing the death of their baby)
25) Recovering from the Loss of a Child – Katherine Fair Donnelly (Firsthand accounts of how people have managed to survive an excruciating bereavement of a child)
26) Children Die, Too – Joy and Marv Johnson (A book for parents who have experienced the death of a child)
27) On Children and Death – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, MD (A touching and inspiring work about how children and their parents can and do cope with death)
28) Talking About Death – A Dialogue Between Parent and Child – Earl A. Grollman
29) Lifetimes – Bryan Mellonie & Robert Ingpen (The beautiful way to explain death to children)
30) My Grandpa Died Today – Joan Fassler
31) That Dog – Nanette Newman (This story is about the loss of Ben’s dog “Barnum”)
32) Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs – Connie de Paola (Tommy loved his family’s Sunday visits to his grandmother, Nana Downstairs, and his great-grandmother, Nana Upstairs. When Nana Upstairs dies, it is the closeness of his loving family which comforts him and helps him to accept her death)
33) The Accident – Carol Carrick (When his dog “Bodger” is hit by a car and killed, Christopher must overcome his sense of guilt. The story strikes home for everyone who has experienced the loss of a pet, and its quiet depiction of Christopher’s coming to terms with grief will extend to all)
34) The Fall of Freddie the Leaf – Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D. (Both children and adults will be deeply touched by this inspiring, thought-provoking treatment of so sensitive a facet of true life)
35) Badger’s Parting Gifts – Susan Varley (It is a timeless story about love, forgiveness and the gift of life. The story was inspired by an experience from the author’s own childhood and by old native legends which pay homage to the Fall’s life-giving force)
36) Greyfriar’s Bobby – Ruth Brown (Tom and Becky learn about love and faithfulness from an old story about a little dog whose love for his master endured beyond the grave.)
37) Remember the Secret – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, MD (This beautiful story is about love, caring and loss)
38) I’ll Hold You in Heaven – Jack Hayford (Healing and hope for the parent who has lost a child through miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion or early infant death.
39) Near Life’s End – Ron Delbene (This booklet was created to help people share more deeply with those who are sick or dying)
40) When You Are Terminally Ill – Robert V. Dodd
41) When Love Gets Tough – Doug Manning (The Nursing Home decision for a parent or loved one)
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