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Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One's Search for Comfort, Answers & Hope |  | Author: Albert Y. Hsu
Publisher: IVP Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 33156
Media: Paperback
Pages: 168
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0830823182
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.866
EAN: 9780830823185
ASIN: 0830823182
Publication Date: July 2002
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A 2003 Finalist in the United Kingdom Christian Book Awards!Every seventeen minutes, someone in the United States dies by suicide. It is one of the most serious public health crises of modern times
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 This book helped me so much!!!!!! May 17, 2010
K. Fry
A friend gave me this book about 3 days after I lost my precious dad to suicide. I picked it up and started reading it while my grief and shock were so fresh and it helped me so much. There is so much pain and intense heart ache when you have to face that your loved one has taken their own life, this book helped me realize I'm not the only one who has gone through this, and that it wasn't my fault. It's like going to really good counseling, all written down in the book, by an author who has been through the same thing as me. Its been 3 years since my dad died and I still go back and re-read parts of the book that I have underlined. I have bought this book 2 times since to give to friends and family who have lost a loved one by suicide to hopefully help them get through their intense grief too. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a suicide survivor (those who've had a loved-one die this way).
This is just how I feel January 9, 2010
ali (Indiana)
My father reacently died from suicide. This book offers confirmation for what I feel and gives me hope of what lies ahead.
Excellent book, I purchase it to give to others December 19, 2009
C. Roth (East Troy, WI USA)
My wife received this book years ago after her first husband committed suicide. She now buys copies of this book to give to other people at our church that have lost a loved one to suicide.
Grieving a Suicide August 28, 2009
Sheri Syverson (Golden Shores, AZ USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My husband committed suicide May 18, 2004 and a friend gave me this book. It is easily understood, the chapters stand alone (you can pick and read what you need at that time), and it helps family and friends to deal with the blame, guilt, sorrow, and shock of a suicide.
I now keep several on hand and give to anyone I know who experiences a suicide. I still reread chapters to deal with issues that pop up. When you don't know what to say after a suicide you can show your support and love by simply handing someone this book.
I really needed this book August 2, 2008
Glenn A. Pettit (Iowa City, IA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
When my new wife took her own life earlier this year, it broke my heart but not my faith. Having a Christian write a book about his own journey -- while also guiding me to other resources -- has been incredibly helpful. I'll admit I read it in fits and starts, because just when I thought I was over a rough patch of grieving, I would read about Mr. Hsu's similar path and I would take a step or two back into that part of my pain. There are times when it was uncanny how his life and thought matched so closely to mine, and there were times when his relationship with his father reminded me of my relationship to my (still-living) father. It has helped me examine my living relationships more closely, and to treasure the time more dearly.
For those who don't feel comfortable with the Christian perspective, there is still much to be learned and felt in these pages. Don't reject this book simply because Mr. Hsu often offers support through passages from the Bible. Even if you don't read the Bible, there are stories there that can teach anyone, regardless of their faith or lack thereof. But that is not the main focus of this book. "Grieving a Suicide" is about the journey from shock and disbelief and deep pain toward hope and healing and forgiveness. That is a journey all survivors of suicide need to take, and this book (and others mentioned in the footnotes) can help us get there.
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