Sorry For Your Loss: What working with the dead taught me about life

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Grief and mourning are difficult topics for anyone at any age, and Levy’s book treats her subject matter and her readers gently and with understanding. … While the themes might be painful, the book is anything but sad, and it will give its readers some insight into grief as well some tools and suggestions for dealing with it in a proactive and positive way. Highly Recommended.”— CM – Canadian Review of Materials A poignant, personal exploration of grief… Gachman perceptively puts words to the uncomfortable realities of loss and deconstructs its social myths, helping readers feel less alone. Those facing loss will find solace here.— Publishers Weekly So Sorry for Your Loss is a monument to the work of remembering and a testament to the immutable love of family and the grief that forever changes us. Dina Gachman writes with compassion and honesty, at once heartbreakingly human and mordantly funny. Suffused with tender emotion and unsparing reflection on what it means to lose, how we grieve, and how we survive that grief, So Sorry for Your Loss is a deeply moving book that will never leave you.”

Poignantly honest and often morbidly amusing…Gachman’s book delivers an offbeat offering of comfort, laughter, and peace by sharing how she is living with grief.” In Next Level Basic, the reality star, podcast queen, and ranch dressing expert gives you hilarious and pointed lessons on how to have fun and celebrate yourself, with exclusive stories from her own life and on the set of Vanderpump Rules. From her very public breakups to her most intimate details about her plastic surgery, Stassi shares her own personal experiences with her trademark honesty—all with the hope you can learn something from them. Many of the people we encounter who have suffered losing a loved one aren’t going to be close friends or family. But we still want to say something to show we empathize and understand how hard their loss is.

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My book of humor essays about living it up in the cheap seats was published by Hachette/Seal Press in 2015. You can get it HERE. When a friend loses someone dear to them it can be awkward to find the words to comfort and offer support. Certainly they deserve more than just saying “I’m sorry for your loss”.

I can’t imagine the depth of your grief. Please know I’m thinking of you and your family during this tragic time.

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DG: It’s scary. It’s extremely scary. Human beings want to be in control, or we want to know what’s ahead; we want to have some sense of how [something] is going to go. When you see someone you love die, you realize we have no control over this; part of the reason we avoid it so much is that the emotions are so big, and the unknown is so daunting, that it’s just a scary thing to bring up. You don’t know where it’s gonna take you, right? I know I speak for all who knew your brother/sister when I say they were one of the most incredible people you could hope to meet. Their loss will be devastating to so many Which is perfectly understandable. It’s the natural response to a horrible situation and shows you are offering some comfort or empathy with that person. I connected with this book through the lens of the Jewish family. Some of the words and rituals were familiar, but I also learned some things that I did not know.

Over the past half-decade, journalist Dina Gachman went through the unthinkable: She not only lost her mother to cancer in 2018 but then lost her sister to alcoholism in 2021. After reading dozens of books on grief in an effort to reconcile their passings, she had an important realization: Maybe she had something a little different to add to the conversation.You will want your words to reflect the severity of what has happened. Offer sympathy and understanding, say how sorry you are and if you can make it clear you are available to help in any way they may need. He saw her see herself as he saw her. Abrihet. She who brings light. More precious than any mountain.” Dina’s writing is awesomely weird in the best way possible." - Jenny Lawson, author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Evie Walman is not obsessed with death. She does think about it a lot, though, but only because her family runs a Jewish funeral home. At twelve, Evie already knows she’s going to be a funeral director when she grows up. So what if the kids at school call her “corpse girl” and say she smells like death? They’re just mean and don’t get how important it is to have someone take care of things when your world is falling apart. Evie loves dusting caskets, polishing pews, and vacuuming the chapel—and on funeral days, she dresses up and hands out tissues and offers her condolences to mourners. She doesn’t normally help her parents with the grieving families directly, until one day when they ask her to help with Oren, a boy who was in a horrific car accident that killed both his parents. Oren refuses to speak and Evie, who is nursing her own private grief, is determined to find a way to help him deal with his loss. A very interesting read by Kate who works in a hospital in the mortuary dept. I was touched by her stories which showed great respect for our deadly departed ( or in her more amusing antidotes , the not so dear !)From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, a novel about risking everything for love—and finding your heart somewhere between the truth and lies. Meet Mr X: Found in his apartment months after his death, Mr X has no relatives that can be traced. He is the longest-serving resident of the mortuary, having been there for almost a year while the search for his elusive family continues. The staff talk to him like an old friend, but Mr X is disintegrating and a decision has to be made soon.