Introduction: Welcome to the club -- Initiating change : when a child or someone we deeply love dies -- Remembering changes : facing Alzheimer's disease -- Touch that changes : when we don't feel blessed -- Changing bad into betterment : when we lose our health -- Breaking into change : losing someone to suicide -- Wrestling with change : losing marriage, career, and home -- Destined to change : when dreams die -- Betting on change : when childhood grief makes an encore -- Spare change : making the most of what we have -- Dying to change : facing death -- Cool change : when doctors aren't enough -- Facing change : losing a parent to alcoholism -- Restraining change : when grief makes us vulnerable -- Time changes : the empty nest and other rites of passage -- Cheap change : when it really could have been worse -- Changed by love : making peace with adoption -- Ex-changes : making peace with the past -- Appendix: Master loss checklist.
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