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4.0 out of 5 stars
Teens learning to cope with death., November 5, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Death Is Hard to Live With (Mass Market Paperback)
In the book "Death is Hard to Live With", they have a lot of true short stories. Most of the stories are written by teenagers explaining the death of a relative or close friend. For instance, one girl lost her mother at the age of twelve. As the years went on she felt worse and worse about her life, she then went to see a psychiatrist to keep her in line. Many kids that shared their stories were telling about the help they either had or need. After a hard death, especially as a teen, you usually start feeling hopeless in your life which could lead to suicide. That is the last answer doctors want to hear as a result. This book is to motivate you to change your life into a better situation after a death has occured. Learning to cooperate with death can be hard and challenging at times, but reading this book points out many different ways to cope with it. There are different alternatives other than hurting or harming oneself. This book provides true stories that may be similar to a situation you are going through. I really enjoyed this book, and thought it would be great for others. It was nice because I could relate to some of the stories that were told. It was fun to compare the different choices we took to get through the situations.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Sadness? or happiness?, May 25, 2005
This review is from: Death Is Hard to Live With (Mass Market Paperback)
The book, the death is hard to live with is collection of personal Narratives about teenagers dealing with death. The author, Janet Bode interviews teenagers who have experienced a loss and puts together their stories in one book. The main conflicts or theme throughout the book is internal conflict with the teens trying to decide how to cope with their situations.
Some of the entries show feelings of regret about not being nicer or friendlier and some regrets and guilt about not appreciating people while they were alive.
Other story show emotions like anger and confusion.
For examples, a girl's father who enjoyed taking drugs, smoking and drinking died.
After that the girl had to live in sadness and loneliness. Also she is really angry about her father.
Most of stories were written in diary form and you can see emotions of darkness, sadness, anger and confusion.
The book was darker and more depressing than you expect. It didn't offer much good advice on how to deal with death, but showed many different reactions to death that a reader could learn from. But it could have had more hopeful stories maybe.
I initially choose this book, because I thought it would be scientific book and give us lots of information but the whole stories about death which is really dark and sadness stories.
I really recommend this book to teenagers who have had trouble with family or friends and who have recently lost a loved one. Sometimes when people lose someone they feel very alone, reading this book could help people see they are not the first to feel sad or anger or regretful when someone dies.
Even though, it wasn't the book that I expected but I still recommend to other people who lost their friends or family member.
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