Shortly before my mother died, I enrolled into a post-graduate program at Hood College to study thanatology -- the study of death and dying. I decided to write a book to share the knowledge gained from this program and from my personal grief experience with a sudden and traumatic death. The book was written so that it can be read at different times of grief: (1) poems and sketches when the focus level is gone (denial period);  (2) worksheets when we decide to do something with this grief; (3) short chapters on the concept of death and dying when we have regained some focus and want to learn more; and (4)the thoughts of others shared in short stories of their own grief and how they handled it. This book, together with pretty ribbon wrapping, makes a simple-but-nice sympathy gift.  Retail price is $24.  Online discount given on this order.