death

The author investigates how different people respond to death, and shares her observations of those she has known who have experienced the mourning process.

When Nora returns to her Mexican village to attend her ex-husband's funeral, she finds herself shaken by her memories of their life together and the ceremony surrounding his death and burial.

The poems sound the depths of depressive illness and grief brought on by illness and the death of loved ones.

Resettled in the "Bomb City" with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father's death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City.

Hal's summer affair with Barry Gorman ends tragically when Hal discovers he is much more committed to the relationship than his friend.

Offers practical advice on what individuals can do to achieve a peaceful death for themselves or for their loved ones, and describes both legal and medical rights.

When their mutual friend Shelly is drowned in a sailing accident, high school junior John Keats and his volatile classmate Gordon Byron decide to steal Shelly's ashes and, in a romantic gesture, return them to the small Lake Erie island where her body washed up, but the journey proves more revealing and emotionally complicated than either of them had anticipated.

Relates Katherine Mansfield's classic short story about a garden party which continues uninterrupted by a neighborhood death.