NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE

The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End

By Darnell Lamont Walker

Death is one of life’s most profound yet avoided topics, often leaving us unprepared for its emotional and practical realities. Emmy-nominated writer, producer, and death doula Darnell Lamont Walker’s NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End (HarperOne; on-sale: 2/10/26) offers a compassionate and transformative guide to navigating the end of life with intention, healing, and grace. Through personal stories, cultural reflections, and practical advice, Walker reveals how embracing mortality can lead to deeper connections, personal growth, and a more meaningful life.

Key Highlights:

The Role of a Death Doula: Walker provides an intimate look at this vital yet often-overlooked role, offering insights into how death doulas support individuals and families through life’s final chapter.

• The Healing Power of Storytelling: Explores how sharing life narratives fosters connection, provides closure, and transforms the grieving process for both the dying and their loved ones.
• Grief as Growth: Reframes grief as an opportunity for personal transformation, emphasizing love, presence, and connection as tools for navigating life’s hardest truths.
• Practical Guidance for End-of-Life Care: Offers actionable steps for creating meaningful farewells, planning for a peaceful end, and supporting loved ones through loss.
• Living Fully, Dying with Intention: Encourages readers to align their lives with their values, embrace self-reflection, and build meaningful connections to live with purpose and die with fewer regrets.

You can download a digital copy with these links: PDF and NetGalley.

NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE is a powerful resource for anyone seeking to approach the end of life with clarity, compassion, and courage. It’s not just a book about death—it’s a guide to living well, healing deeply, and finding peace in life’s most universal experience.

Living Beyond Loss Questions and Answers About Grief and Bereavement

By Robert A. Neimeyer

Listening to the bereaved —really listening— brings into sharp focus two things: their pain and their questions. In Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers About Grief and Bereavement, noted psychologist Dr. Robert Neimeyer compassionately engages the heartfelt inquiries of real bereaved people who have lost parents and partners, siblings and children, to illness, tragic accident, suicide and violence, and offers practical counsel on how to move forward toward a life that can again have meaning. Drawing on more than five decades of experience in grief therapy and grounded in contemporary research on loss and resilience (including his own), this book is an indispensable guide to understanding the nuances of grief and adaptation, which is equally relevant to the bereaved themselves and to the therapists and professionals who strive to support them.

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FREE EBOOK: FACING DEATH. What Do I Do Now?

By Claire O’Berry

Receiving the news of a terminal diagnosis can be confronting, confusing and traumatic. Few of us have seen death up close and personal and most of us are ill-prepared for our final and most important exit, much less informed to make empowered choices. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Options that most do not consider or plan for do exist! Download here.

About Life, Death and Moving On

By Debbie Gisonni

A high tech executive finds humility, humor and heart when four family members die in four years. Through these four deaths, Debbie learns to squeeze the sweetest wine from a bunch of sour grapes. Her advice works for any traumatic situation. You’ll be moved to tears and laughter by her 44 inspirational real-life lessons and her nightly chats with God.

How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies

Therese Rando, Ph.D.

Mourning the death of a loved one is a process all of us will go through at one time or another. But wherever the death is sudden or anticipated, few of us are prepared for it or for the grief it brings. There is no right or wrong way to grieve; each person's response to loss will be different. Now, in this compassionate, comprehensive guide.

Therese A. Rando, Ph.D., bereavement specialist and author of Loss And Anticipatory Grief, leads you gently through the painful but necessary process of grieving and helps you find the best way for yourself.

Unattended Sorrow

Stephen Levine

Unattended sorrow is unresolved grief that has never been given a chance to heal. This lovely, spiritual book from one of the nation's most trusted grief counselors offers a series of techniques to help heal this pain so readers can lead full and joyful lives. The book not only guides those who have experienced a fresh loss to face the hurt before it settles in, but it also addresses the devastating impact of tragedies past, when people become "stuck" years after childhood abuse, teen rape, early divorce, or loss of a loved one.

I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One

Pamela Blair, Ph.D.

Each year about eight million Americans suffer the death of someone close to them. Now for those who face the challenges of sudden death, there is a hand to hold, written by two women who have experienced sudden loss. This updated edition of the best- selling bereavement classic will touch, comfort, uplift and console. Authors Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D., explore sudden death and offer a comforting hand to hold for those who are grieving the sudden death of a loved one.

Featured on ABC World News, Fox and Friends and many other shows, this book acts as a touchstone of sanity through difficult times. I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye covers such difficult topics as the first few weeks, suicide, death of a child, children and grief, funerals and rituals, physical effects, homicide and depression. New material covers the unique circumstances of loss, men and women's grieving styles, religion and faith, myths and misunderstandings, I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye reflects the shifting face of grief.

The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life

Oxford University Press, 2018 | 2022 www.widowedparent.org

The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life is now out in paperback. The book weaves together narrative and bereavement research in a way that makes for a compelling and helpful read for any person who is grieving a loss. As someone intimately familiar with the grief and bereavement space, I believe you may find it really interesting as well.