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Updated February 6, 2008 |
URL is http://www.parlorcity.com/secop/grief.html |
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Book review, Ryan White.
This is not the best web page on this subject, but it may point you to the best.
| Index of my grief pages | |
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| Main Grief Page (you are here) |
Erin's House |
| Books and Bookstores page is lost. Just use Google. |
A Memorial to
Mark and Scott |
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My father and others |
My Grandma Lived In Gooligulch review and art is lost |
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Meditations |
Index of
Entire Site |
"Bereave: to deprive of a person or thing taken away. Not used in reference to immaterial objects."
This subject is astoundingly well covered here on the internet,
but it took me six months to find that out.
This page can be short for you, and you can get on with finding
peace. The pages I link to are thorough. Please don't take offense
when a site mixes links for pet loss into the other bereavement
issues. Pet loss is a severe problem for some of us, and anything
that improves our mental health, as we grieve the loss of a pet,
benefits the community.
Ryan White, My Own Story,
an autobiography
Image
by Sissi
What
mother can't suffer with Jeanne White when we remember what her
son Ryan went through? I saw them together once, shopping in Union
Station in Indianapolis, and that image is seared on my brain.
Ryan wrote his own autobiography, entitled My Own Story,
with Ann Marie Cunningham. I am always amazed to meet someone who
hasn't read it.
I wonder if people have forgotten Ryan and what he did for A.I.D.S. awareness in the United States. I would drive through his former home town and wonder "which of you shunned Ryan and tried to keep him out of your school." "Which of you stood and screamed at that child." I am more unforgiving than Ryan was. Today, our son is a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, doing research to prevent the transmission of H.I.V., the virus that can lead to A.I.D.S. He works in Africa and in the United States. He was always with us in the car as we drove through Ryan's home towns.
Read this book for the wondrous experience of knowing a wonderful child, a man before his time, an example to all of humanity. Goodbye, Ryan. You taught all of us to be better people.
The Ryan White Foundation carries on Ryan's work. Amazon Books has this paperback for sale if you haven't bought it already.
ERIN'S HOUSE FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN
This important information is featured on its own page now. Please read about Erin's House. I wanted it to get more attention when I wrote my page about it in 1996. By now there is more information available to help the bereaved, so I took down my own page.
Empty
Arms
There is a review on a separate page of the outstanding children's book by Australian artist Graeme Base, My Grandma Lived In Gooligulch. It shares how a child remembers a grandma who loved animals. (Page missing, 2-3-08. I am searching my computers for it.)
Visit artist
Lincoln Weinhardt's home page. This is one of his works.
PAGE NOT AVAILABLE in 2008.
Links
Image by Sissi
- Sissi lost her brother 13 years ago and can just now begin to deal with her grief. This is Sissi's newest page for him. Also see her drinking-driving page. I also write about drinking and driving, but not as well as Sissi.
- Here is a link I call my bridge over troubled waters, another Zeltser creation. It was a comfort when Pappy was dying. It helps me if I am depressed.
- My cat page had excellent links to pet bereavement sites but everything is outdated now.
- This comprehensive Hospice site covers childhood cancer and all other possible connections to Hospice care. An excellent site.
- I've made a memorial to Mark and Scott, two brothers who were an important part of my life. It took a long time before I thought I could do it well enough. And it really isn't good enough. But now I think that you should just do it, make your memorial. You may not feel better, but it might help someone, somehow.
Email more links to me, Sandra Weinhardt, at
secop@parlorcity.com
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