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No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One By Carla Fine ( Main Street Books )
Release Date: 1999-11-09
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Suicide would appear to be the last taboo. Even incest is now discussed freely in popular media, but the suicide of a loved one is still an act most people are unable to talk about--or even admit to their closest family or friends. This is just one of the many painful and paralyzing truths author Carla Fine discovered when her husband, a successful young physician, took his own life in December 1989. And being unable to speak openly and honestly about the cause of her pain made it all the more difficult for her to survive.
With No Time to Say Goodbye, she brings suicide survival from the darkness into light, speaking frankly about the overwhelming feelings of confusion, guilt, shame, anger, and loneliness that are shared by all survivors. Fine draws on her own experience and on conversations with many other survivors--as well as on the knowledge of counselors and mental health professionals. She offers a strong helping hand and invaluable guidance to the vast numbers of family and friends who are left behind by the more than thirty thousand people who commit suicide each year, struggling to make sense of an act that seems to them senseless, and to pick up the pieces of their own shattered lives. And, perhaps most important, for the first time in any book, she allows survivors to see that they are not alone in their feelings of grief and despair.
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 No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One
Very helpful in my grief process in losing a close friend to suicide. I have since shared it with my friend's sister for her family's use.
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 Thank you for showing me a light through the darkness....
It has been almost 3 months since my dad's suicide and until I read your book, I have felt completely lost. He decided to take his life after years of illness that was finally diagnosed as Pulmonary Fibrosis. I was told of his diagnosis on a Sunday and by that following Monday he had taken his life.
I did not get a chance to say goodbye. I did not get a chance to tell him all the things I wanted to tell him. He decided to leave us and so that he would not be a burden (on daily life and financially). However, he left us with another sort of burden that is difficult to express.
Over the past 3 months, I have been searching for a book that could help me with my grief. I read a few but they just scratched the surface. After reading the reviews of this book, I decided to order it hopeful that it would shine a light. I received it yesterday and read for hours into the night. I felt like the words were written just for me. Although some of the content can be difficult at times, the stories would not be as real if the details of the suicides were left out. Unless you have the details in many of the stories, you cannot truly understand why the pain is so big and so raw for the survivors.
Thank you for writing this book. I am comforted to know that my grief, anger, sadness, emptiness, confusion, despair and need for answers to questions that I will never get are emotions shared by other survivors of suicide.
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No Time to say goodbye
This book was the very first book I read since my partner committing suicide. I found it to be so helpful in my process of grieving. What I am going through is normal for a suicide. I am not going crazy. It is written with love and compassion, I urge anyone who has lost someone to this awful illness to read it, it will help.
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The Survivors Bible
This book is wonderfully written and will be a staple on my bookshelf for years to come. This book is perfectly paired with proven facts and touching stories of many other survivors and their own particular stories. It "normalizes" the choas of the situation, and provides ever-needed understanding of the survivors' special circumstances. The writer does a wonderful job weaving her own story with the decoding of technical terms revolving around suicide, and other the individual survivors' stories. I wore out a highlighter with all the information related to my own story, and it will provide me with short-term as well as long-term guidance as needed in the future.
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This book helped me tremendously ( jaruston )
I read this book in two days, through many tears. I lost my beloved father to suicide just 5 months ago and have been struggling with the "what ifs" and "whys" and the massive guilt, grief, anger, bewilderment that all survivors carry around. This book is clearly written, no holds barred (descriptions of suicides are a bit jarring) and honest. I have been attending Survivors of Suicide support group and this book had been recommended to me by several other survivors. I would recommend it to all survivors as required reading.
I took a highlighter and marked many passages for my husband to read. He ssid that it helped him to understand more about what I have been feeling and why.
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