Bereavement Support

 

Groups For Bereaved Parents:

  • SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Parents Support Group
    1-800-303-SIDS


  • St. Louis Mission Baptist Medical Center
    Department of Pastoral Care
    3015 N. Ballas Road
    St. Louis, Missouri 63131
    314-996-5105


  • St. Louis Center for Young People
    Weekly programs are ongoing and free of charge.
    314-965-5015


  • Parents of Murdered Children
    St. Louis Chapter President: Mata Webber
    1224 Bel Aire Drive
    Bellville, Illinois 62220
    618-233-5471
    www.pomc.com

Grief Resource Library:

  • Title: To Begin Again : A Journey Toward Comfort, Strength, and Faith in Difficult Times
    Author(s): Levy, Naomi
    Publisher: Knopf
    Publishing Date: October, 1998

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  • Title: A Broken Heart Still Beats: When Your Child Dies
    Author(s): McCracken, Anne and Semel, Mary (Editors)
    Publisher: Hazelden Information Education
    Publishing Date: November 1998

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  • Title: On Death and Dying
    Author(s): Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
    Publisher: Collier Books
    Publishing Date: June 1997

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  • Title: On Death and Dying
    Author(s): Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
    Publisher: Collier Books
    Publishing Date: June 1997

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  • Title: Final Gifts : Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
    Author(s): Callanan, Maggie and Kelley, Patricia
    Publisher: Bantam Books
    Publishing Date: March 1997

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  • Title: Necessary Losses : The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow
    Author(s): Viorst, Judith
    Publisher: Fireside
    Publishing Date: January 1998

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  • Title: Living with the End in Mind; A Practical Checklist for Living Life to the Fullest by Embracing Your Mortality
    Author(s): Kramp, Erin Tierney, et al
    Publisher: Three Rivers Press
    Publishing Date: September 1998

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  • Title: Motherless Daughters : The Legacy of Loss
    Author(s): Edelman, Hope
    Publisher: Delta
    Publishing Date: May 1995

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  • Title: A Grief Observed
    Author(s): Lewis, C. S., Chad Walsh (Afterward)
    Publisher: Bantam Books
    Publishing Date: March 1, 1983

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  • Title: The Denial of Death
    Author(s): Becker, Ernest and Goleman, Daniel P.
    Publisher: Free Press (Free Press Paperback)
    Publishing Date: April 1997

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  • Title: Beyond Grief : A Guide for Recovering from the Death of a Loved One
    Author(s): Staudacher, Carol
    Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns
    Publishing Date: April 1987

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  • Title: Good Grief : A Constructive Approach to the Problem of Loss [LARGE PRINT]
    Author(s): Westberg, Granger E.
    Publisher: Fortress Press
    Publishing Date: February 1986

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  • Title: The Grief Recovery Handbook : The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death Divorce, and Other Losses
    Author(s): James, John W. (Introduction) and Friedman, Russell (Introduction)
    Publisher: Harpercollins
    Publishing Date: June 1998

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  • Title: The Wheel of Life : A Memoir of Living and Dying
    Author(s): Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth and Gold, Todd (Contributor)
    Publisher: Touchstone Books
    Publishing Date: June 1998

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  • Title: When Parents Die : A Guide for Adults
    Author(s): Myers, Edward
    Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper)
    Publishing Date: March 1997

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  • Title: Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates
    Author(s): Kurz, Gary
    Publisher: Cold Noses
    Publishing Date: April 1997

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  • Title: After Goodbye : How to Begin Again After the Death of Someone You Love
    Author(s): Menten, Ted and Menten, Theodore
    Publisher: Running Press
    Publishing Date: May 1994

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  • Title: Who Dies? : An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
    Author(s): Levine, Stephen and Levine, Ondrea
    Publisher: Anchor
    Publishing Date: February 1989

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  • Title: After the Darkest Hour the Sun Will Shine Again : A Parent's Guide to Coping With the Loss of a Child
    Author(s): Mehren, Elizabeth and Kushner, Harold (Introduction)
    Publisher: Fireside
    Publishing Date: April 1997

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  • Title: The Loss of a Pet : New Revised and Expanded Edition
    Author(s): Sife, Wallace (Introduction)
    Publisher: Howell Book House
    Publishing Date: June 1998

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  • Title: The Courage to Grieve
    Author(s): Tatelbaum, Judy
    Publisher: HarperCollins (paper)
    Publishing Date: October 1984

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  • Title: Helping Children Cope With the Loss of a Loved One : A Guide for Grownups
    Author(s): Kroen, William C. and Espeland, Pamela (Editor)
    Publisher: Free Spirit Publishers
    Publishing Date: March 1996

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  • Title: Goodbye, Friend : Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet
    Author(s): Kowalski, Gary
    Publisher: Stillpoint Pub
    Publishing Date: October 1997

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  • Title: Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One
    Author(s): Smolin, Ann, et al
    Publisher: Fireside
    Publishing Date: June 1993

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  • Title: I'm Grieving As Fast As I Can : How Young Widows and Widowers Can Cope and Heal
    Author(s): Feinberg, Linda Sones
    Publisher: New Horizon Press
    Publishing Date: June 1994

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  • Title: Gentle Closings; How to Say Goodbye to Someone You Love
    Author(s): Menten, Theodore
    Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
    Publishing Date: January 1992

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  • Title: The Presence of Absence : On Prayers and an Epiphany
    Author(s): Grumbach, Doris
    Publisher: Beacon Press
    Publishing Date: August 1998

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  • Title: After-Death Communication : Final Farewells
    Author(s): Lagrand, Louis E.
    Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
    Publishing Date: June 1997

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  • Title: She Came to Live Out Loud : An Inspiring Family Journey Through Illness, Loss, and Grief
    Author(s): MacPherson, Myra and Doka, Kenneth J. (Introduction)
    Publisher: Scribner
    Publishing Date: February 1999

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  • Title: How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies
    Author(s): Rando, Therese A., Ph.D.
    Publisher: Bantam Books
    Publishing Date: August 1991

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  • Title: The Pagan Book of Living and Dying : Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing over
    Author(s): Starhawk, et al
    Publisher: Harper San Francisco
    Publishing Date: October 1997

  • Title: Empty Cradle, Broken Heart : Surviving the Death of Your Baby
    Author(s): Davis, Deborah L., Ph.D
    Publisher: Fulcrum Publishers
    Publishing Date: March 1996

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  • Title: Helping Children Cope With Separation and Loss, Revised Edition
    Author(s): Jarratt, Claudia Jewett and Rosenberg, Dan (Editor)
    Publisher: Harvard Common Press
    Publishing Date: March 1994

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  • Title: Death : The Final Stage of Growth
    Author(s): Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth (Editor)
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper)
    Publishing Date: July 1997

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  • Title: Healing After Loss : Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief
    Author(s): Hickman, Martha Whitmore
    Publisher: Avon Books (Pap Trd)
    Publishing Date: December 1994

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  • Title: Letters from Motherless Daughters : Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing
    Author(s): Edelman, Hope (Editor)
    Publisher: Delta
    Publishing Date: May 1996

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  • Title: After Suicide
    Author(s): Hewett, John H. and Oates, Wayne E. (Editor)
    Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
    Publishing Date: May 1980

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  • Title: Graceful Exits : How Great Beings Die : Death Stories of Tibetan, Hindu & Zen Masters
    Author(s): Blackman, Sushila (Editor)
    Publisher: Weatherhill
    Publishing Date: June 1997

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  • Title: Companion Through the Darkness : Inner Dialogues on Grief
    Author(s): Ericsson, Stephanie
    Publisher: Harperperennial Library
    Publishing Date: February 1993

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  • Title: The Rooms of Heaven : A Story of Love, Death, Grief, and the Afterlife
    Author(s): Allen, Mary
    Publisher: Knopf
    Publishing Date: February 1999

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  • Title: Lament for a Son
    Author(s): Wolterstorff, Nicholas
    Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
    Publishing Date: July 1987

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  • Title: After He's Gone : A Guide for Widowed and Divorced Women
    Author(s): Jowell, Barbara Tom and Schwisow, Donnette (Contributor)
    Publisher: Birch Lane Press
    Publishing Date: November 1997

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  • Title: The Measure of Our Days : A Spiritual Exploration of Illness
    Author(s): Groopman, Jerome
    Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper)
    Publishing Date: October 1998

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  • Title: The Grieving Child : A Parent's Guide
    Author(s): Fitzgerald Helen and ubler-Ross, Elisabeth (Designer)
    Publisher: Fireside
    Publishing Date: July 1992

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  • Title: Dying Well : The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life [LARGE PRINT]
    Author(s): Byock, Ira
    Publisher: Riverhead Books
    Publishing Date: February 1997

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  • Title: The Bereaved Parent
    Author(s): Schiff, Harriet Sarnoff and Schiff, Sarnoff
    Publisher: Viking Press
    Publishing Date: November 1978

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  • Title: Widow to Widow : Thoughtful, Practical Ideas for Rebuilding Your Life : Challenges, Changes, Decision-Making & Relationships
    Author(s): Ginsburg, Genevieve Davis
    Publisher: Fisher Books
    Publishing Date: March 1998

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  • Title: The Worst Loss : How Families Heal from the Death of a Child
    Author(s): Rosof, Barbara D.
    Publisher: Henry Holt (Paper)



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  • Title: Losing a Parent : Passage to a New Way of Living
    Author(s): Kennedy, Alexandra
    Publisher: Harper San Francisco
    Publishing Date: June 1991

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  • Title: Seven Choices : Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love
    Author(s): Neeld, Elizabeth Harper
    Publisher: Centerpoint Press
    Publishing Date: June 1997

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  • Title: The Good Death : The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
    Author(s): Webb, Marilyn, et al
    Publisher: Bantam Books
    Publishing Date: November 1997

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  • Title: The Dying Time : Practical Wisdom for the Dying and Their Caregivers
    Author(s): Furman, Joan and McNabb, David (Contributor)
    Publisher: Random House (Paper)
    Publishing Date: September 1997

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  • Title: Facing Death and Finding Hope : A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying
    Author(s): Longaker, Christine
    Publisher: Doubleday
    Publishing Date: June 1998

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  • Title: Living With Death and Dying
    Author(s): Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
    Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
    Publishing Date: June 1997

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  • Title: A Mother Loss Workbook : Healing Exercises for Daughters
    Author(s): Hambrook, Diane, et al
    Publisher: Harperperennial Library
    Publishing Date: September 1997

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  • Title: Unspeakable Losses : Understanding the Experience of Pregnancy Loss, Miscarriage, and Abortion
    Author(s): Kluger-Bell, Kim
    Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
    Publishing Date: April 1998

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  • Title: No Time for Goodbyes : Coping With Sorrow, Anger, and Injustice After a Tragic Death
    Author(s): Lord, Janice Harris and Wheeler, Eugene D. (Editor)
    Publisher: Pathfinder Pub
    Publishing Date: October 1991

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  • Title: After the Death of a Child : Living With Loss Through the Years
    Author(s): Finkbeiner, Ann K.
    Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Press
    Publishing Date: June 1998

  • Title: Good Grief Rituals : Tools for Healing : A Healing Companion (Healing Companion)
    Author(s): Childs-Gowell, Elaine
    Publisher: Station Hill Press
    Publishing Date: October 1992

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  • Title: The Wheel of Life : A Memoir of Living and Dying
    Author(s): Kubler-Ross M.D., Elisabeth
    Publisher: Scribner
    Publishing Date: June 1997

  • Title: Silent Grief : Living in the Wake of Suicide (The Master Works Series)
    Author(s): Lukas, Christopher and Seiden, Henry M. (Contributor)
    Publisher:Jason Aronson
    Publishing Date: June 1997

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  • Title: The Art of Dying : How to Leave This World With Dignity and Grace, at Peace With Yourself and Your Loved Ones
    Author(s): Weenolsen, Patricia and Siegel, Bernie S.
    Publisher: St. Martin's Press
    Publishing Date: October 1997

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  • Title: Angel Pawprints : Reflections on the Loss of a Canine Companion
    Author(s): Hunt, Laurel E. (Introduction) and Villalobos, Alice
    Publisher: Darrowby Press
    Publishing Date: December 1998

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  • Title: Intimate Death : How the Dying Teach Us How to Live
    Author(s): Hennezel, Marie De, et al
    Publisher: Knopf
    Publishing Date: July 1998

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  • Title: Miscarriage : Women Sharing from the Heart
    Author(s): Allen, Marie and Marks, Shelly
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
    Publishing Date: January 1993

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  • Title: I'm With You Now : A Guide Through Incurable Illness for Patients, Families, and Friends
    Author(s): Ray, M. Catherine
    Publisher: Bantam Books
    Publishing Date: July 1997

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  • Title: Living With Loss : Meditations for Grieving Widows (Days of Healing, Days of Change)
    Author(s): Stern, Ellen Sue
    Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap)
    Publishing Date: August 1995

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  • Title: After the Death of a Child : Living With Loss Through the Years
    Author(s): Finkbeiner, Ann K.
    Publisher: Free Press
    Publishing Date: May 1996

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  • Title: Cry Until You Laugh : Comforting Guidance for Coping With Grief
    Author(s): Obershaw, Richard J.
    Publisher: Fairview Press
    Publishing Date: February 1998

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  • Title: Life After Loss : A Personal Guide Dealing With Death, Divorce, Job Change and Relocation
    Author(s): Deits, Bob
    Publisher: Fisher Books
    Publishing Date: September 1992

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  • Title: Talking About Death : A Dialogue Between Parent and Child
    Author(s): Grollman, Earl A. and Avishai, Susan (Illustrator)
    Publisher: Beacon Press
    Publishing Date: November 1991

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  • Title: Helping Children Grieve : When Someone They Love Dies
    Author(s): Huntley, Theresa
    Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publications
    Publishing Date: October 1991

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  • Title: The Next Place
    Author(s): Hanson, Warren
    Publisher: Waldman House Press
    Publishing Date: September 1997

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  • Title: Reflections on Life After Life
    Author(s): Moody, Raymond A.
    Publisher: Bantam Books
    Publishing Date: August 1988

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  • Title: Who Gets Grandma's Yellow Pie Plate?
    Author(s): Stum, Marlene
    Publisher: University of Minnesota Extension Service
    Publishing Date: January 1999

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