Bruised and Wounded: Struggling to Understand Suicide

by Ronald Rolheiser

Book Overview

Recent events have shown again how suicide touches all of us -- often when we least expect it. But how to unpack the grief that follows such a painful, and often stigmatized, death? Ron Rolheiser can help.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640600841
• ISBN13: 9781640600843
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A close and concise look at a painful subject

This short book contains a very deep, honest and compassionate discussion of suicide from the perspective of a Catholic priest. Though I am not Catholic and didn’t relate to a couple of doctrinal details in the book, I found it to be an indispensable guide as I groped through the early stages of grieving my own daughter’s death by her own hand.