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How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies Paperback – July 18, 1991
Therese A. Rando (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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“The most comprehensive, insightful, and helpful volume on loss and survival.”—Rabbi Dr. Earl A. Grollman, author of Living When a Loved One Has Died
Mourning the death of a loved one is a process all of us will go through at one time or another. But wherever the death is sudden or anticipated, few of us are prepared for it or for the grief it brings. There is no right or wrong way to grieve; each person's response to loss will be different. Now, in this compassionate, comprehensive guide (previously published as Grieving), Therese A. Rando, Ph.D., bereavement specialist and author of Loss and Anticipatory Grief, leads you gently through the painful but necessary process of grieving and helps you find the best way for yourself.
Whether the death was sudden or expected, from accident, illness, suicide, homicide, or natural causes, Dr. Rando will help you learn to:
• Understand and resolve your grief.
• Talk to children about death.
• Resolve unfinished business.
• Take care of yourself.
• Accept the help and support of others.
• Get through holidays and other difficult times of the year.
• Plan funerals and personal bereavement rituals.
There is no way around the pain of loss, but there is a way through it. Dr. Rando offers the solace, comfort, and guidance to help you accept your loss and move into your new life without forgetting your treasured past.
- Print length338 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBantam
- Publication dateJuly 18, 1991
- Dimensions5.2 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-100553352695
- ISBN-13978-0553352696
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Whether the death was sudden of expected, from accident, illness, suicide, homicide, or natural causes, Dr. Rando will help you learn to:
Understand and resolve your grief.
Talk to children about death.
Resolve unfinished business.
Take care of yourself.
Accept the help and support of others.
Get through holidays and other difficult times of the year.
Plan funerals and personal bereavement rituals.
How To Go On Living With Someone You Love Dies also includes a comprehensive resource listing and a chapter on finding professional help and support groups.
There is no way around the pain of loss, but there is a way through it. Dr. Rando offers the solace, comfort, and guidance to help you accept your loss and move into your new life without forgetting your treasured past.
"Dr. Rando's book should help anyone ho has survived the pain of this kind of loss and is trying to adjust to a new world without his loved one."--Art Linkletter
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Whether the death was sudden of expected, from accident, illness, suicide, homicide, or natural causes, Dr. Rando will help you learn to:
Understand and resolve your grief.
Talk to children about death.
Resolve unfinished business.
Take care of yourself.
Accept the help and support of others.
Get through holidays and other difficult times of the year.
Plan funerals and personal bereavement rituals.
How To Go On Living With Someone You Love Dies also includes a comprehensive resource listing and a chapter on finding professional help and support groups.
There is no way around the pain of loss, but there is a way through it. Dr. Rando offers the solace, comfort, and guidance to help you accept your loss and move into your new life without forgetting your treasured past.
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Whether the death was sudden of expected, from accident, illness, suicide, homicide, or natural causes, Dr. Rando will help you learn to:
Understand and resolve your grief.
Talk to children about death.
Resolve unfinished business.
Take care of yourself.
Accept the help and support of others.
Get through holidays and other difficult times of the year.
Plan funerals and personal bereavement rituals.
"How To Go On Living With Someone You Love Dies also includes a comprehensive resource listing and a chapter on finding professional help and support groups.
There is no way around the pain of loss, but there is a way through it. Dr. Rando offers the solace, comfort, and guidance to help you accept your loss and move into your new life without forgetting your treasured past.
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- Publisher : Bantam; Reprint edition (July 18, 1991)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 338 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0553352695
- ISBN-13 : 978-0553352696
- Item Weight : 9.5 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.2 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #38,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #137 in Grief & Bereavement
- #227 in Love & Loss
- #1,565 in Motivational Self-Help (Books)
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My heart goes out to all of you that's lost a love one and is looking for help.
Truly, a useful resource. I recommend it to you.
My dad also noted that he wished he had it a long time ago - the portions on pet loss were very helpful, the suggestions for closure prior to death would have been great for him before how wife passed, and the suicide explanations helped him understand what I had gone through years ago when he helped me through the suicide of my fiancé.
A great and very helpful book, all around.
Dr. Rando's gentle guide was the perfect primer for the experience of bereavement, because I had not the faintest idea of what to expect. It gave me a sense of structure and process, kind of a roadmap to help me navigate through this dark wood. I had an experienced psychotherapist, but this book gave me the background to supplement our one-on-one work. Over the years, I took courses in bereavement and became a certified grief counselor, volunteering for non-profit organizations. I recommended Dr. Rando's book to many, and have never found a better guide for families experiencing the pain of mourning.
Over the past thirty years, discussion of death has fortunately become more mainstream in our culture, which I view as an extremely supportive development. In addition, probably over the past twenty years, interest in the afterlife, credible scientific research on soul survival phenomena, and mainstream belief in afterlife communications has grown exponentially. My own conception of death has changed significantly since my mother's passing, after connecting with her and other deceased loved ones through evidential mediums. Rather thinking of death as a final goodbye, I view it as a change of format, like H20 taking the form of air or water rather than ice. That does not mean death is not a painful loss; it certainly is. But there is more hopefulness in the belief that a deceased loved one, while invisible, is still a conscious presence whom we can access.
Dr. Rando does not touch on afterlife beliefs in her book, yet I still recommend it to those who are experiencing loss, especially for the first time. I feel it is critical for a person to process the reality of tangible loss before engaging in hopes of spiritual contact. It does disservice to the rite of passage of experiencing loss to try to "cancel it out" by saying, "Don't worry, she just walked from one room to another." I believe in a balance between processing bereavement loss in a healthy way and, perhaps months or years later, enjoying the comforting reassurance that one's deceased loved ones are still nearby on the other side of the veil.
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