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Author: Carla Fine
Publisher: Main Street Books
ISBN: 0385485514
Desciption: 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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