The Loss of a Pet: A Guide to Coping with the Grieving Process When a Pet Dies

Understanding helps heal the hurt when you lose a pet.

This award-winning book has been hailed as the seminal work in the field. And now the fourth newly revised and expanded edition offers so much more to the bereaving pet owner. This edition also includes a significant new way of considering the meaning of afterlife for us and our pets. It discusses the topic from a twenty-first century scientific perspective that is very different from existing religious or metaphysical ones, offering a new comfort to skeptics and agnostics as well.

This book will help you in your healing from that special loss. It includes topics such as:* Validating this special kind of grief
* The grieving process, including typical stages of bereavement and techniques for coping
* Children and the death of a pet
* Euthanasia, including important emotional considerations
* Religion and the death of a pet, with articles by various religious leaders
* Aftercare facilities, including an extensive index of pet cemeteries, crematories, and memorial gardens


And there is a special chapter at the end, offering helpful hints and suggestions.

• Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet
• When Your Pet Dies: A Guide to Mourning, Remembering and Healing
• The Pet Loss Companion: Healing Advice from Family Therapists Who Lead Pet Loss Groups
• Heart Dog: Surviving the Loss of Your Canine Soul Mate
• My Pet Remembrance Journal
• How to ROAR: Pet Loss Grief Recovery
• Cold Noses At The Pearly Gates: A Book of Hope for Those Who Have Lost a Pet
• Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die
• I Will See You in Heaven
• Signs From Pets In The Afterlife