Death benefits
Subtitle: how losing a parent can change an adult's life-- for the better
By: Jeanne Safer.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780465072118
Subjects: Death -- Social aspects.; Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects.; Adult children -- Psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-220) and index.
Table of contents: value: My death benefit (autobiography); value: Death benefits : the last taboo; value: Going through the stuff : choosing a legacy; value: Using the good china : deserving a life at last; value: My body, my self : health and beauty benefits; value: Till death do us part : marriage and divorce; value: Lifted up in my mother's arms : religious epiphanies; value: A voice of my own : creative self-expression; value: Father knows best? The punitive parent dies; value: Mom's best friend : the end of emotional caretaking; value: The eleventh hour : near-death revelations; value: Perspectives from the deathspace; value: In their end is my beginning : cultivating death benefits.