Remembering A Life:
On the Death of Your Beloved

by Ann Keeler Evans, M.Div.
6 x 9" - 192 pages - $15

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The one book you need when someone dies.
This manual will help you understand what needs to be done, and
to do it in a style that will comfort and sustain you. This book is about good goodbyes that are worthy of the people we loved, that will help heal aching hearts and empty spaces.

"The death of a beloved friend or family member finds almost everyone unprepared and numb, a wash in details and decisions.
In Remembering a Life, Ann Keller Evans becomes the companion we all wish to have: compassionate, wise, and filled with the sort of pratical knowledge and useful ideas that one learns only from years of hands-on experience in helping people to say goodbye. Buy this book now. Someday you will need it."
Rachael Naomi Remen, M.D. Author
Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings

Most books on death give you only a small slice of what you need to know: grieving, for example, or how to write a funeral service. Remembering a Life gives you all of what you need to know when a loved one dies: the immediate decisions that are necessary, planning the services, information on funeral homes and home funerals, lasting memorials, anticipated deaths and unexpected deaths, organ donations, caskets, making the calls, picking up the pieces of the deceased's life, and a meditation on the afterlife.

“Dying involves the ultimate letting go, both on the part of the dying and for those left. Rituals help us to come to that place of letting go, and this book offers wonderful alternatives around that and celebrating the life and death of a loved one. Really fills a gap in hospice literature.”
Laura Campbell, Hospice R.N.

Filled with resources and references for books and web sites, Remembering a Life ends with help in getting your own affairs and funeral plans in order.

"Ann Keeler Evans is an honest, warm and compassionate guide who encourages the reader to move through, and not around, the troubling waters of grief so that healing can begin. Fresh perspectives that will serve also as important resources for clergy and pastoral educators."
Rev. O. Allen Lumpkin, S.T.M., Founding Director of the School of Pastoral Care, Geisinger Medical Center

Author Bio

ANN KEELER EVANS, M.Div., graduated from Union Theological Seminary in New York, and has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years as a minister, thealogian and ritualist. She specializes in creating interfaith rituals; with her warm and witty manner and her beautiful singing voice, she is much in demand as a ceremonialist.
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