Stronger Than Death: When Suicide Touches Your Life

by Sue Chance

Book Overview

The mother of a suicide victim shares her pain, guilt, anger, and psychiatric expertise to offer methods for healing, weaving her personal grief, pain, and anger with practical information on the normal reactions to suicide.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039303092X
• ISBN13: 9780393030921
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Stronger Than Death

For an old book, it arrived in very good condition--just as advertised. It arrived very quickly. Excellent service.

Definately worth your time

Anybody who has experienced a loved one's suicide will find this book helpful and dear to their heart. Dr. Chance is a strong, talented woman.

Grateful

This book was a blessing to me. I lost my son to suicide two months ago and Dr. Sue Chance did such a wonderful job being honest about her feelings and explaining her grief that it helped me understand and cope with my own. I would recommend this book to all mothers that have lost a child to suicide, it is great therapy and it helped me so very much in a very painful time. Dr. Chance truly tired to understand "why" and that is the question we all need answered. Thank you for this book.

Extremely helpful to one who has lost a child.

I read this book seven months after my own son died from a drug overdose. Before obtaining a copy of Dr. Chance's book I read many others on death of a child and survival. None adequetly touched the topic of the children who died of suicide and rarely mentioned death by drugs. It was almost like the parents were being blamed or that our grief was any less than those of a parent whose child died of a tragic accident or unfortunate illness. As I read the author's words I could feel the pain. The books I read previous did not touch me in that emotional way. I was glad a friend of mine suggested I read this story. I got the feeling that her life was filled with many tragic and painful issues, but I found her to stay focused on the reason she wrote the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who is experiening such a tragic loss.

a very helpful book

When I was putting together my anthology, DYING: A BOOK OF COMFORT, this was one of two books I found particularly helpful (and used selections from). I'm sorry to see that Victoria Alexander's book WORDS I NEVER THOUGHT TO SPEAK; STORIES OF LIFE IN THE WAKE OF SUICIDE is not in print now, although another of her books is, but Sue Chance's book is definitely something to consider, if someone you know is dealing with the emotional problems of surviving the suicide of someone close to them