Gentle Closings: How to Say Goodbye to Someone You Love

by Ted Menten

Book Overview

Collects stories of people facing the death of a loved one, and shows how they pushed aside despair to rejoice in shared memories and confront death with warmth, frankness, and even humor. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561380040
• ISBN13: 9781561380046
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Exceptional healing book.

Whenever I need to learn how to say goodbye, I read this little book again.

After Goodbye by Theodore Menten

This book was one of the best that I have read on the topic of grief. It is real and truly illustrates the emotions that we all go through after the death of a loved one. The true life stories and illustrations give you a sense of peace as well as the feeling that you are not alone in your grief.

How to say goodbye to someone who is dying

When I was putting together my book, DYING: A BOOK OF COMFORT, this was one of the books from which I used several selections. I often recommend it when people ask for advice about how to commemorate a death or how to say goodbye to someone who is dying. I particularly liked Menten's story of the couple who planted a garden during the husband's illness, a garden the wife could sit in after his death -- and remember the gathering where his friends all said goodbye to him. Sometimes people joke about giving a funeral while they're still alive, so they can appreciate it. Menten suggests ways to do something similar. A lovely, gentle, practical book.