Dealing with death

We recently had to deal with the death of our close friend's daughter, it was tragic to say the least. The difficult part was explaining the death to toddler L. A week before the incident L's fish had died so at least he was somewhat prepared. Unfortunately explaining the death of a person is a bit different than a fish. We flushed the fish so he knew where the fish was and that he wasn't coming back, our friend's daughter was another story. When we were offered the chance to review the book Where do we go? : The Good Grief Book by James F. Weinsier we jumped at the chance. Due to our personal stance on religion we were a little worried about how the book would be presented but we were pleasantly surprised by the books ability to blend with most different religious and spiritual views. The book does not address a specific religious view and is very open which we liked. Though this book unfortunately did not help us to explain death to 3 year old L it did open up conversation and imagination for where you might go after death and what it might be like. The pictures (illustrated by Cliff Beaman) are very detailed and L loved pouring over every detail and discussing what was going on. Even after we were done reading the book he sat with it for hours and is still immersed in it days later. While we are still dealing with the most random questions that really seem to have no good answers for, at least this fabulous book can help us too answer some of them and leave L with some good thoughts about a bad situation.


Where do we go? : The Good Grief Book by James F. Weinsier retails for $12.95US and can be purchased at Amazon.com or through Books Plus by calling 1-877-630-8998, they ship to both US and Canada.