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Surviving Suicide: A Memoir From Those Death Left Behind Kindle Edition

by Amanda Evans (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
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Surviving Suicide: A Memoir From Those Death Left Behind tells the story of a family and how they have coped with suicide. Inside you will find the writings of the author, her sister and her mother as they all share their story of how suicide has affected them. This book is aimed at promoting suicide awareness and helping others get through what is an extremely difficult time, filled with questions that can never be answered.
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    October 17, 2012
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Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009SLN01S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amanda J Evans; 2nd edition (October 17, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 17, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2672 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 48 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

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Amanda J Evans

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Amanda J Evans is an award-winning writer of paranormal and fantasy novels as well as children’s stories. Growing up with heroes like Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones, her stories centre on good versus evil. An early tragedy in her life has also made its way onto the page and Amanda brings the emotions of grief to life in her stories too.

Amanda lives in Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Ireland with her husband and two children. Her first novel Finding Forever won Best Thriller in the 2017 Summer Indie Book Awards and her second novel Save Her Soul won Silver for Best Paranormal in the Virtual Fantasy Con Awards 2017. Amanda has a publishing deal with Handersen Publishing and her first children’s book, “Nightmare Realities” was released on the 25th of September 2017. Her latest story, Hear Me Cry, a fantasy romance telling of the old Irish myth of the Banshee won the Book of the Year Award at the Dublin Writers Conference 2018.

Amanda is currently working on part 2 of The Curse Angels and a paranormal romance novel that she hopes to submit to agents and publishers in 2019. Amanda is also the author of Surviving Suicide: A Memoir from Those Death Left Behind, published in 2012.

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Fred Schaefer
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a very personal and immensely powerful book that provides awareness, understanding and - most importantly - real hope
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2012
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Reading this book should be a must for every person who contemplates suicide. Of course, these are just words, I know. The ones left behind, loved ones and friends, have no idea what really takes place inside the head of someone who decides that life is no longer worth living. Reading a book, any book, is probably the last thing on such a person's mind. And yet! This very personal book is so powerful, it could prevent this catastrophic event, suicide, from occurring.
Just as we don't understand - really understand on a deep emotional level - what it is that makes someone decide to end his or her life, we don't really understand how those left behind feel. This book provides us with a glimpse of the deep pain, the unbearable grief, the dreadful anger, the sense of hopelessness, depression and unnecessary guilt that dominates their lives for many years afterwards.
But most importantly: this book also gives hope. Very real hope, which is ultimately what matters. True, life will never be the same as before, but life continues and at some time a new way of looking at life will emerge and will transcend the years of pain. I said at the beginning, reading this book should be a must for every person who contemplates suicide. Let me add to this: Everybody reading this book will greatly benefit from it. Thanks for making it available to the public and my best wishes to all those left behind.
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Steven O'Connor
4.0 out of 5 stars A shot of strong liquor
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2012
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Be warned. This book is like downing a shot of whiskey. It's from the heart and it's powerful. As a social worker who has worked in various health settings, I have encountered suicide on a number of occasions through my career. It's always something that hits you badly, even when your relationship with the person has been a professional one. As I read Amanda Evan's book, I found myself thinking about some of those people. Suicide is hard for everyone, but I can hardly begin to imagine how devastating it must be for a family member. And in this book, you get the recollections from three family members. Two daughters and a mother. I was particularly touched by the daughter who identifies herself as being a rebellious teenager, and the guilt and self-blame she unreasonably carried for some time after. It's a real privilege Amanda Evans has published this deeply personal book for us to read.
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Samantha
5.0 out of 5 stars Not An Easy Book
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2012
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This is an extremely painful and uncomfortable book. The author's father committed suicide when she was only 13 years old, leaving behind a wife and four children. Obviously, the struggle to go on with life, to find joy again, wasn't easy. The author writes to her dad as a way to heal, wondering if he can hear her words from wherever he is. She wisely understands that she will never truly know why he committed suicide but she also knows that she was irrevocably transformed by this act.

Much of the book is poetry. In a way it's about her father, but it's even more about the struggle to live without him and not be engulfed in bitterness and guilt. The author's sister and mother share some of their feelings about this tragedy. Yet, in spite of all this tragedy, the book is ultimately a message of hope and redemption. If I had one wish, it would be that everyone contemplating suicide would read "From Those Death Left Behind" before causing such pain to their loved ones.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Heart-wrenching but with a message of hope
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2012
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This is an absolutely heart-wrenching book, but I do not regret reading it one bit. It is truly like a window into the minds of the contributing authors: Ms. Evans and her family. When you read this compilation of letters and poems you really get a sense of what they have been feeling for twenty-two years now - I say "have been" because this kind of grief is continuous; it is something that never really goes away. Their letters and poems are expressions of their grief, but also of their healing, in the various ways they have gone about it. It is a book for those who are surviving after the loss of a loved one to suicide, and for those contemplating suicide in the hopes that they might consider how their deaths will affect the ones who love them. A very important message, both heart-wrenching and hopeful at the same time. I congratulate the author for stepping forward and making this work available to a wider audience!
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Mary Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars From Those Death Left Behind
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2012
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At the young age of 13 Amanda Evans father unexpectedly committed suicide. The tragedy was a result of unspoken depression James Evans dealt with and sought release from. Little did he know the painful aftermath he would leave behind for his family. This book is a collaboration by the family he left behind to cope with his loss. This book is a moving true story that anyone suffering from depression or who knows someone with depression should read.
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Kindle Customerbarbara smith
5.0 out of 5 stars it is enlightning but sad. it tell about the deaths
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2016
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this gives insight how people grieve from different type of death, murder, suicide. it is enlightning but sad. it tell about the deaths, about the funerals and then about life after without their loved ones.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and written from experience
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2014
It's a complicated subject and obviously written from a perspective of experience. It should be compulsory reading for anybody who finds themselves on either side of this emotional disaster. It seems to be proof that suicide solves nothing and only harms the rest of the lives of the people who still love you. Fewer people would do it if they realized that.
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Sunshinecoach
5.0 out of 5 stars A moving read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2013
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I read this book in one go and had tears in my eyes pretty much the whole way through. This is a difficult and emotional subject for anyone to write about. My heart went out to the author and her family as I read these incredibly personal poems and memories. This book allows us to feel the darkest moments along with the courage, hope and love of a family. POWERFUL.
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