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How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult's Life--For the Better
Basic Books
May 2008
On Sale: April 28, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 0465072119
EAN: 9780465072118
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Although five percent of the population loses a mother or father...few of us are psychologically prepared for the experience in later life. Death Benefits explores the uncharted territory each of us enters when a parent leaves us, and offers a blueprint for positive change in every aspect of our lives. Death Benefits demonstrates through powerful stories (including the authorβs own revelatory experience) how parent loss is the most potent catalyst for change in middle age and can actually offer us our last, best chance to become our truest, deepest selves. Safer challenges the conventional wisdom that fundamental change is only for the young; and that loss must simply be endured or overcome. Filled with moving and engaging stories of real men and women re-imagining themselves after a parentβs death, it is a fresh, impassioned, and sophisticated look at self-transformation in later life.
 Media BuzzDiane Rehm Show - NPR - May 6, 2008
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