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Now there is a hand to hold . . .
Each year about eight million Americans suffer the death of a close family member. The list of high visibility disasters, human suffering and sudden loss in long and will continue to grow. From TWA Flight 800 to Egypt Air 990, from Oklahoma City to Columbine, daily we face incomprehensible loss. Outside the publicized tragedies there are many families and individuals that are suffering behind closed doors in our neighborhoods, in our own homes, in hospital waiting rooms. Now for those who face the challenges of sudden death, there is a hand to hold written by two women who have experience sudden loss. In a book that will touch, comfort, uplift and console, authors Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D. explore sudden death and its role in the cycle of life. Tapping the personal histories of both authors and numerous interviews, I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye shows grieving readers how to endure, survive and grow from the pain and turmoil surrounding human loss. For survivors this valuable book provides a rock-steady anchor from which to weather the storm of pain and begin to rebuild their lives.
Customer Reviews:
OK, but not helpful for me.......2007-09-13
I bought this book because the table of contents looked good and it had so many 5-star reviews. However, after reading it cover-to-cover I did not find it very helpful for my particular situation. I lost both my parents when a drunk boater hit them (they were in knee deep water and he came ashore at full speed). While this book acknowledges the extra feelings that come from sudden loss, it does not address the complex images left after a violent homicide, and dealing with the drawn-out legal process.
Also, none of the self-help suggestions were appealing or really plausable for me ... I stay home with 3 kids age 3 and under, and I can't go out and shout in a forest or get into aromatherapy.
Survival! That is what grief is all about!.......2007-06-21
After I lost my son in a tragic accident, this book reinstilled my hope and helped me cope with my heart wrenching grief over a parent's worst nightmare - that of losing a child.
GIFT.......2007-06-01
Sent this as a gift to someone who experienced sudden and unexpected loss of loved one. Apparently it was a comfort and very much appreciated. It was my way of speaking words I didn't have. Good book for it's purpose!
How to handle grief when it first happens.......2007-05-13
This book helps you understand what you or a loved one is going through during those first weeks of grief. It was enormously helpful as we suffered through strange physical symptoms and thoughts. We were not crazy. We were grief-stricken. Enormously helpful reference book, without getting into too personal stories at this time of shock.
Help for those who are grieving.......2007-05-07
I bought this book 3 years ago when my mom died suddenly. It was such a big help to me to get through the stages of grief. It explained everything that I was feeling and going through at the time. It was a tremendous comfort to me and had a big healing effect. I have since bought it for a few a my friends who have lost their parents, and they have in turn bought it for others.
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The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk's darkly comic and often dazzling thriller. Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS, troubled newspaper reporter Carl Streator begins to notice a pattern among the cases he encounters: each child was read the same poem prior to his or her death. His research and a tip from a necrophilic paramedic lead him to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who sells "distressed" (demonized) homes, assured of their instant turnover. Boyle and Streator have both lost children to "crib death," and she confirms Streator's suspicions: the poem is an ancient lullaby or "culling song" that is lethal if spoken--or even thought--in a victim's direction. The misanthropic Streator, now armed with a deadly and uncontrollably catchy tune, goes on a minor killing spree until he recognizes his crimes and the song's devastating potential. Lullaby then turns into something of a road trip narrative, with Streator, Boyle, her empty-headed Wiccan secretary Mona, and Mona's vigilante boyfriend Oyster setting out across the U.S. to track down and destroy all copies of the poem.
In his previous works, including the cult favorite Fight Club, Palahniuk has demonstrated a fondness for making statements about the condition of humanity, and he uses Lullaby like a blunt object to repeatedly overstate his generally dim view. Such dogmatic venom undermines the persuasiveness of his thesis about mass communication and free will, but thankfully, Palahniuk offers some respite here by allowing for sympathy and love, as well as through his razor-sharp humor, such as his mock listings for Helen's possessed properties: "six bedrooms, four baths, pine-paneled entryway, and blood running down the kitchen walls...." At such moments, Lullaby casts a powerful spell. --Ross Doll
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times.
Carl Streator is a solitary widower and a fortyish newspaper reporter who is assigned to do a series of articles on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In the course of this investigation he discovers an ominous thread: the presence at the death scenes of the anthology Poems and Rhymes Around the World, all opened to the page where there appears an African chant, or “culling song.” This song turns out to be lethal when spoken or even thought in anyone's direction–and once it lodges in Streator's brain he finds himself becoming an involuntary serial killer. So he teams up with a real estate broker, one Helen Hoover Boyle–who specializes in selling haunted (or “distressed”) houses (wonderfully high turnover), and who lost a child to the culling song years before–for a cross-country odyssey to remove all copies of the book from libraries, lest this deadly verbal virus spread and wipe out human life. Accompanying them on this road trip are Helen's assistant, Mona Sabbat, an exquisitely earnest Wiccan, and her sardonic ecoterrorist boyfriend Oyster, who is running a scam involving fake liability claims and business blackmail. Welcome to the new nuclear family.
On one level, Lullaby is a chillingly pertinent parable about the dangers of psychic infection and control in an era of wildly overproliferated information: “Imagine a plague you catch through your ears . . . imagine an idea that occupies your mind like a city.” But it is also a tightly wound thriller with an intriguing premise and a suspenseful plot full of surprising twists and turns. Finally, because it is a Chuck Palahniuk novel, it is a blackly comic tour de force that reinforces his stature as our funniest nihilist and a contemporary seer.
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times.
Carl Streator is a solitary widower and a fortyish newspaper reporter who is assigned to do a series of articles on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In the course of this investigation he discovers an ominous thread: the presence at the death scenes of the anthology Poems and Rhymes Around the World, all opened to the page where there appears an African chant, or "culling song." This song turns out to be lethal when spoken or even thought in anyone's direction -Ã,Â- and once it lodges in Streator's brain he finds himself becoming an involuntary serial killer. So he teams up with a real estate broker, one Helen Hoover Boyle -- who specializes in selling haunted (or "distressed") houses (wonderfully high turnover), and who lost a child to the culling song years before -- for a cross-country odyssey to remove all copies of the book from libraries, lest this deadly verbal virus spread and wipe out human life. Accompanying them on this road trip are Helen's assistant, Mona Sabbat, an exquisitely earnest Wiccan, and her sardonic ecoterrorist boyfriend Oyster, who is running a scam involving fake liability claims and business blackmail. Welcome to the new nuclear family.
On one level, Lullaby is a chillingly pertinent parable about the dangers of psychic infection and control in an era of wildly overproliferated information: "Imagine a plague you catch through your ears... imagine an idea that occupies your mind like a city." But it is also a tightly wound thriller with an intriguing premise and a suspenseful plot full of surprising twists and turns. Finally, because it is a Chuck Palahniuk novel, it is a blackly comic tour de force that reinforces his stature as our funniest nihilist and a contemporary seer.
Customer Reviews:
Not what i expected.......2007-09-06
After reading Fight Club, Choke, Invisible Monsters, and Survivor, Lullaby caught me off guard, it didn't strike me as something Chuck would write about;
it was out there, like most of his work that i've read is,
but best of all, it was an exellent read and definitely up to par with the rest of his works;
i can't wait to see the day that he's required reading in schools,
his work is far more interesting and makes me think independantly alot more than anything i've ever read before.
brilliant
Good Read........2007-08-30
Chuck rocks. I like that he never loses the readers attention, even when the pace slows, the dialogue and descriptions keep you in it.
strange..........2007-08-12
Although i enjoyed it,some of the stuff in his books are off the wall! I like his use of terms and his little "fun facts". A good read if your a chuck fan...one of his better books. (i've only read three so far)
A lethal lullaby.......2007-08-06
My rating is based more so on the creative literary talents of the nihilistic author Chuck Palahniuk. He fabricates a symbolic commentary on the failures of society in the guise of a black comedy. Palahniuk uses a gritty no holds barred style that touches subject matter not for the faint of heart. He creates a bizarre array of characters to expouse his views. He fascinatingly incorporates ceaseless clusters of factoids germane to the theories he proposes within this outlandish novel.
Middle aged journalist Carl Streator is involved in a newspaper series concerning Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. While conducting interviews with unfortunate families touched by these tragedies, he uncovers a common denominator. Each tiny victim had been read to from a book "Poems and Rhymes Around the World". More specifically a lullaby or African culling song found on page 27, were the last words heard by the babies. Streator soon realizes that the mere utterance or thinking the words of the lullaby results in immediate death.
This revelation has him seek out a Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent specializing in the sale and quick resale of haunted houses. Boyle had also lost a child to SIDS as did Streator, and had knowledge of the culling song's effect.
Streator, unable to contain his thoughts of the lullaby, goes on an unintended killing spree and needs Boyle's help to control himself. Together along with Boyle's assistant Mona, a Wiccan witch and her hippyish boyfriend Oyster, who places slanderous advertisements to bring down institutions that are ecologically insensitive, they all go on a cross country excursion. Their goal is to locate all copies of the lullaby and destroy them. They are also searching for a fabled grimoire, a book of spells that they hope to use to alter societal norms and evoke change.
what a deal!.......2007-07-29
on the back of this book it says that it costs $13.95 in the united states, and $21.00 in canada. i got it for 75 cents at a garage sale. i just thought that i'd let people know that garage sales can be good places to get books.
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A workbook of healing and hope
Based on the bestselling book I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: surviving, coping and healing after the sudden death of a loved one, this workbook offers step-by-step support and encouragement through the grief journey.
Now there is a hand to hold
Each year about eight million Americans suffer the death of a close family member. The list of high visibility disasters, human suffering and sudden loss in long and will continue to grow. From TWA Flight 800 to Egypt Air 990, from Oklahoma City to Columbine, daily we face incomprehensible loss. Outside the publicized tragedies there are many families and individuals that are suffering behind closed doors in our neighborhoods, in our own homes, in hospital waiting rooms. Now for those who face the challenges of sudden death, there is a hand to hold written by two women who have experience sidden loss. In a book that will touch, comfort, uplift and console, authors Brook Nowl and Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D. explore sudden death and its role in the cycle of life. Tapping the personal histories of both authors and numerous interviews, I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye shows grieving readers how to endure, survive and grow from the pain and turmoil surrounding human loss. For survivors this valuable book provides a rock-steady anchor from which to weather the storm of pain and begin to rebuild their lives.
Customer Reviews:
Review by professional coach who works with grief..........2007-06-15
This is an excellent grief resource that provides a solid roadmap to go along with the book. The activities are meaningful and help one who has recently suffered a loss go through the grieving process faster.
You will get the most benefit if you read the book and do the activities provided in this workbook. However, you could work with each of these separately.
The The Grief Recovery Handbook : The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death Divorce, and Other Losses is also quite popular and geared toward losses of all types. This book is strongly focused on a recent loss, but will be useful to anyone who is grieving the death of a loved one.
Grief workbook.......2007-05-29
I found this workbook and its companion book, "I wasn't ready to say a goodbye" a tremendous help after the sudden death of our 36b year old daughter. It contains very practical help, but more importantly gave me a sense that I was not alone. The authors very effectively used their experience to help others work through their grief.
Wasn't ready to say goodbye.......2007-01-09
This book is helpful to my clients when dealing with a sudden death.
Working through the Grieving Process.......2006-01-26
"As we live our life, we can choose to become a light for those we have lost. We can carry their memory, their hopes, their dreams into the future." ~Brook Noel
The need to talk about loss can lead to a deeper healing process and having a comforting workbook provides a place of understanding. In order to move through the grieving process, Brook Noel and Pamela Blair explain the process of grief.
They start the book with notes for the first few weeks, lists of calls that need to be made and information on who needs to be notified. There are place to write all the information you need to remember.
They explain the emotions of fear, anger and depression and also provide calming exercises. There are helpful guides for anyone helping others with loss and the section on Learning through Loss provides an excellent list of positive affirmations. There are ideas about Memory Books and ways to honor someone through donations or a living memorial.
The third chapter answers many questions that need to be answered. Should you take medication to get through the process or would a natural therapy work better? I have found the Bach Rescue Remedy to be very effective and comforting.
Explaining the situation to children and dealing with the holidays are also issues to consider. Writing poetry and memories in a journal are also ideas that are helpful and healing. The quotes and poems throughout the workbook are beautiful and carefully chosen.
Understanding grief can also help you with all areas of loss in your life, because I think we go through them when we lose anything or anyone we truly love. So in that regard, this book is for everyone and will be appreciated by counselors, pastors, family members, friends and especially by anyone who is currently experiencing the affects of loss. Additional books and CDs are also available.
~The Rebecca Review
Great Companion to the Book.......2003-12-31
If you liked the book "I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye" but wanted a way to help you actually work through the loss and grief process, the workbook is finally here. To a certain extent this workbook stands alone and can be used without the primary book but you would lose a lot of the benefit if you did it that way. When used in conjunction with the book you gain a much greater understanding of what is going on and the process of working through the workbook is greatly enhanced. The workbook is full of insightful questions and exercises to help you understand what you are going through and appreciate and accept yourself. From there you can learn, grow, and heal. The workbook is very helpful with getting out the grief, anger, guilt, and anything else you may need to work on. If you are dealing with sudden, unexpected loss the book "I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye" is one of the best resources you can pick up. Now, this companion workbook helps you apply the book to your life and start the healing process.
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An unforgettable first novel about a young boy growing up in rural Ireland, in the shadow of a dark secret.
Customer Reviews:
Truth and Beauty.......2006-05-07
As the New York Times and The Washington Post suggest, this is, indeed, a beautiful, heartbreaking tale in which the lives of real people in difficult circumstances are explored. This may, truly, be depressing to readers who have never had to endure hardship or poverty or experience violence in their lives but O'Malley has a need to explore people whose lives aren't as comfortable as ours, people who endure and succeed despite the hard choices that they must make-this seems such an integral and necessary function of the human condition and of living and O'Malley captures this fully. Perhaps those readers (I'm amazed by the reviewer who critiques the book without even finishing it?) who have never had to experience hardship or never been witness to it are merely more complacent than some of us and desire fictions that offer a safe, alternative perspective to this reality. That is entirely their choice. Myself, I eagerly await O'Malley's next work!
Semantics.......2006-04-20
A number of reader reviews have used the word "heartbreaking" to describe this book. I have not finished reading it yet, but I'm not sure about "heartbreaking": I'm finding it downright depressing. The writing is magnificent: O'Malley's powers of description are formidable - darkly poetic and even magisterial. But the gloom is relentless. In the hope that it will begin to soar as it reaches its resolution I'll persevere.
Chuig an mé mhuinta scafóideach .......2006-03-16
In the Province of Saints is an exquisitely written book that reveals the real Ireland that many of us Irish experienced in the years before the Celtic Tiger. It's too bad that the reviewer, Seaghaan Mar, cannot see past his petty prejudices to truly read and appreciate this beautifully crafted book. Perhaps he was reading a book other than this one? It is clear from his comments that he has no real understanding of the Irish or of our experiences (hardly folklore). O'Malley's characters are rich and fully realized, and every moment of rural life is captured with such precision and authenticity that one feels the author's love and respect for these people. There is darkness here and the hardships are those that many Irish have experienced, but this does nothing to dim this distinct vision nor does it lessen the worth and meaning of such hardships. O'Malley writes without a shred of self-pity or sentimentality and this is a testament to his maturity, and that in the very dark yet very real moments of these character's lives O'Malley casts light, tenderness, and hope. He shows us all the darkness so that we may see the light, something every person (Irish or otherwise) can understand. With In the Province of Saints, O'Malley reveals his authority and command as a writer, a writer mature beyond his years, and already, it seems, masterful in the form. No wonder Booklist has chosen this book as one of the ten best first books of 2005 and the New York Public Library has picked it as one of the best twenty five books from last year, in their Books to Remember for 2005.
I look forward to reading more from this promising writer.
Yerra, Be-Jaysus, not another one of the lot.......2006-03-09
Another dreadful sceal on mBealoideas e seo (a story from the folklore this is)about the horrors of Loife in Oul' Oireland, the bogs, mud, eternal rain, crucified mothers, drunken, good-fer-nothin' Da's, poverty so crushing it could be called Gaelic, emotional poverty so deep it's a wonder everyone doesn't commit suicide. Except they are Catholic, with all of those penitential burdens. They just run off--to Sasana, Boston. This story needs Myles na gCopalin to do it justice. Are any people as deeply self-deprecating as the Irish? Are they soon to be done with this penitential flogging of themselves in books and go back to ascending Croagh Patrick barefoot? My relatives came out of County Galway, Irish speaking, long ago and had as much good as bad to say about the Old Country. I wish this guy, who can write, at least in short bursts, would lend his story-telling more balance.
That said, he has promise when he matures.
A brilliant story, richly told.......2005-12-14
Thomas O'Malley's In the Province of Saints is a novel to savor. It tells the story of Michael McDonagh, a young boy in a poor, broken family rural Ireland in the late 1970s, from the time he is 9 or 10 until he is 13 or 14. The novel is told in heartbreakingly beautiful prose that is completely absorbing; as a reader, you will feel you are there, in Michael's skin, watching the clouds brood on the horizon and smelling the pigs in the yard.
The novel concerns Michael's confrontation and struggle with, and ultimately his understanding of his father's repeated abandonment of his mother and his family, first through his philandering and later through his departure for America; his mother's growing illness and imminent death; Michael's own sexuality; and finally, his sense of responsibility for his family and for himself. This is a world in which right and wrong, historically spelled out by the church, social hierarchy and the family, are ostensibly black and white. But in the late 20th Century, it is a world in which right and wrong are often reversed, and in which survival and even salvation depend upon violating traditional boundaries. Thus, we see, time and again, a cycle of transgression, punishment, penitence and redemption that Michael, his father, other members of his family and those around him not only endure but embrace both to get along day to day and to grow beyond their circumstances. For example, we see Michael at the age of 9 or 10, stealing eggs and bread from the neighbors because the family is in arrears with the dairy man. His mother discovers his wrong, and slaps his face in punishment, but the boy stands fast, and despite her rebuke, the mother keeps the stolen food. The scene is rich in moral ambiguity and the struggle of both characters to find what is right. Much later in the novel, this transgression is echoed by Michael's blatant vandalism of a neighbor's shed -- payback for the neighbor's exaction of penitence from Michael's father. The spiral goes on, with Michael eventually witnessing the ultimate transgression by others, which places him in the position of deciding whether to step into the role of judge and mete out punishment or to take another path.
The story is both compelling and moving. One of O'Malley's many great accomplishments in this novel is a portrayal of a land and characters that is panoramic in scope -- with respect to both the exterior and interior landscapes. Likewise, young Michael's growth from a boy to a young man is meticulously, yet subtly drawn, even down to the language, which early on seems deliberately (and rightly) hesitant and tentative, but which becomes bolder and more forceful as Michael matures.
This is a novel that will engage you completely, that will absorb you with the richness of its language and that will endear you to its noble, fallible characters.
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Addressing the pathology of the heart and cardiovascular system from a forensic perspective, this book guides the pathologist toward the effective resolution of cases. It critically reviews pertinent facts by revisiting pathologic findings and comparing them to etiopathogenic hypotheses, proposing new ones substantiated by previously misinterpreted or ignored facts. Pathology of the Heart and Sudden Death in Forensic Investigations assists the forensic pathologist in the presentation and interpretation of the sequence of events regarding an inquiry to a court of law. It contains basic functional anatomy of the heart, combining views on examination from clinical and pathological perspectives. The book systematically treats patho-physiologic changes and specific heart diseases and explains the benefits of communication between forensic specialists and clinicians in determining cause of death. It also presents recent findings on pediatric pathology. Including 150 color photographs that show forensic aspects of cardiopathology, the book offers a single source of pertinent information that is essential for every forensic pathologist to have at the ready when investigating a case.
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A rule of thumb in forensics: one dead baby is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome(SIDS); two dead babies is suspicious; three dead babies is murder. The Death of Innocents starts off a bit slow, but as soon as a new district attorney decides to pursue an old case of five siblings whose deaths were attributed to SIDS, the story kicks into high gear. There are two villains: the quietly furious mother who admitted to smothering her children--one of whom was 2 years old, and kicked and flailed as he died--and the arrogant medical researcher who was so eager to make a name for himself that he was willfully blind to the warnings of danger. Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan, a husband-wife team, write about abuse of the scientific method as suspensefully as they write about parental abuse of babies. The Death of Innocents was named a 1997 Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. The NYT writes, The Death of Innocents "...seamlessly weaves the tales of the earlier and later murder cases, separated by two decades, with the complicated scientific and social issues, the many disparate personalities, documents, interviews and dramatic moments. The book is paced like a thriller, and it will be read like one."
Book Description
Unraveling a twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel. More than just a true-crime story, it is the stunning expose of spurious science that sent medical researchers in the wrong direction--and nearly allowed a murderer to go unpunished.
On July 28, 1971, a two-and-a-half-month-old baby named Noah Hoyt died in his trailer home in a rural hamlet of upstate New York. He was the fifth child of Waneta and Tim Hoyt to die suddenly in the space of seven years. People certainly talked, but Waneta spoke vaguely of "crib death," and over time the talk faded.
Nearly two decades later a district attorney in Syracuse, New York, was alerted to a landmark paper in the literature on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome--SIDS--that had been published in a prestigious medical journal back in 1972. Written by a prominent researcher at a Syracuse medical center, the article described a family in which five children had died suddenly without explanation. The D.A. was convinced that something about this account was very wrong. An intensive quest by a team of investigators came to a climax in the spring of 1995, in a dramatic multiple-murder trial that made headlines nationwide.
But this book is not only a vivid account of infanticide revealed; it is also a riveting medical detective story. That journal article had legitimized the deaths of the last two babies by theorizing a cause for the mystery of SIDS, suggesting it could be predicted and prevented, and fostering the presumption that SIDS runs in families. More than two decades of multimillion-dollar studies have failed to confirm any of these widely accepted premises. How all this happened--could have happened--is a compelling story of high-stakes medical research in action. And the enigma of familial SIDS has given rise to a special and terrible irony. There is today a maxim in forensic pathology: One unexplained infant death in a family is SIDS. Two is very suspicious. Three is homicide.
Customer Reviews:
Still thinking about it after one year.......2006-09-18
I read this a year ago and am still reeling. I'm in the mental health/child welfare field and this story hammers home the need for professionals of all stripes to maintain skepticism and personally evaluate the quality of new research before relying on findings in practice. Shameful. We should all know better.
Literature of American Fluoropoisoning Terrorism's Black Propaganda.......2006-05-05
Two very interesting suspects are portrayed in this book, the first, Vandersluys, was an already convicted statutory rapist who fooled around extramaritally (a great deal) with a flirtatious hussy teenager next door, then apparently cashed in his life insurance policies on one SIDs child after the next. Crime happens, but by then there were some 10,000 + cases of SIDS per year in the United States (Where exactly are the statistics, or has the CDC removed those government records as well as Autism's?); you know, making an opportunity of drinking water poisoning going on where you live to collect AD&D policies is still the fault of the water utility--it has no indemnity. The man's words sound more like the brainwashing of the already guilt ridden into accepting coaching he was negligent whether he was or not. Wiping your baby's face with a wash cloth could be used to prove you tried to smother them right before their cyanic apnea nap, then SIDS diagnosis. I don't see the wave of insurance fraud claim these fools are trying to confabulate, and I definitely take issue with the unconstitutional framing of Wanneta Hoyt. There's a woman with profound, unexplained illness, nearly complete balding, osteoporosis, who made every effort to seek medical attention for her infants. Not a killer, a victim who never had an affirmative defense, much else a civic government with the backbone to forensically investigate, prosecute and hang premeditated water poisoners. Why don't we just insist on the Death of the Guilty? Or are they all `Arab males of military age' in Iraq? Is it al Qaida or is it AL COA?
Not only the flagrant police misconduct to which authors Firstman and Talan remained completely, passively complacent, I mean actually coercing a confession without the accused having an attorney, and under emotional duress like a gulag plus her ill health disorienting, confusing and exhausting her (clear indication of severe environmental toxic poisoning in her home), but also the forging of written confession, not once, but redrafted again on her behalf with no counsel. That's not supposed to happen in America, but it does. And worse, books like this that attempt a crude cover for clandestine fluoropoisoning, going around manufacturing alibis and framing victim suspects are not supposed to be well received either, nor escape exposure and stiff public censure. No wonder they had to stick a silly award on it just to make it seem even more unquestionably respectable. I think this book is condemnable, it's authors thenceforth essentially unpublishable, crony hack writers of ill repute assisting a criminal evasion and the bowling over of the justice system--imminently denunciated. They have helped to mainstream and manufacture an alibi for a big killer and mutilator by anoxic brain injury.
Court appointed defense for Vandersluys, when loosely throwing together a few cross examination questions to screen for toxic hazards in the home, inquired about risk of carbon monoxide poisoning in some indirect questions regarding a heater and a metal treatment, (not wanting to mention chemicals in the context of air or water other than any solvent the victims might've used in the home), inquired about painting in the home, but made no inquiry as to what was coming out of the household water tap--none. In other words a bogus, court appointed defense counsel and understudy of the prosecution--marsupial justice complete with a pouch for the defense counsel and state's employee.
For the other case there was no toxicology screening of Wanetta Hoyt's household nor what was drawn from the tap and fed to her infants--conviction based solely on staged, coerced, and forged confession. Judicial malpractice like that only points to official corruption and cover-up of the government and utility's premeditated mass murder, murder one, `in the first degree', and the automatic finger pointing framing of the guardian in closest proximity to the deaths: aggravated offenses of perjury, misprison, obstruction of justice, and manufacturing false charges and statements to frame another for the purpose of criminal evasion, i.e. racketeering conspiracy, violating transportation and commerce, undue influence, and all of them in office.
That is what the un-clever, idiotic in fact, ruse of fluoridating drinking water achieves for its perpetrators, it appears to be a crime they can blithely pipe into their victims' homes from miles away with *legerdemain*. Therefore, (in their hare brained, euphoric March naiveté) they haven't done anything wrong. They have every duty, right and responsibility to make every effort to protect your teeth for you--whether you brush them or not. And besides, nobody's going to put their picture up on a most wanted list, nobody knows who they are or what those magoos really do. That's real immunity. See how long it lasts, or who cares if `history will have to judge'; the public has judged fluoridation, so has Toxicology, the Institute of Medicine has judged the proxy misdiagnosis of vaccine injury, and epidemiologists and geneticists have judged the autism epidemic as a pandemic actually, and not genetic. Something's disguises aren't holding together are they--and trying to rope in wheat gluten, food allergies, streptococcus-meningitis or dyslexia for a broad spectrum of anoxic brain injury ain't gonna work for an alibi either. BUSTED!! A sheer equivocation catastrophe is in progress, make popcorn.
---review coninues with the book "While Innocents Slept"
A very depressing read.......2005-06-28
Munchausen syndrome by proxy is always difficult to read about, especially if you have your own children and do not abuse them. This is a intriguing account of one episode of munchausen's syndrome by proxy that was mistaken for sleep apnea/sids for years, until it was uncovered. It was a great book, I could not put it down, but I was very sad and thought about it for a while after I read it. Prepare to be unhappy.
Forget what you thought you knew about SIDS.......2005-04-05
This book was an eye-opener. As a mother of four, I take any threat to my children's safety very seriously (including SIDS). After reading this book, I was forced to rethink much of what I thought I knew about the phenomena.
The Death of Innocents takes an analytical look at how the apnea theory of SIDS was forced upon this country. Firstman provides an intriguing look into the lives of two families and one doctor. The two families had multiple SIDS victims, the doctor had an agenda: the rest is pediatric history.
The perfect true crime book.......2004-04-26
I can't say enough how much I enjoyed this book. I came across a mention of the Hoyt family and this book while reading Michael Kelleher's "Murder Most Rare" (another really good read), and decided to order it. From page one, I was hooked.
It starts with a case of familial infanticide, then explores the earlier Hoyt case that was so important. The best part about the book is when the authors leave the Hoyt case and take us on a detailed tour of the history of SIDS and apnea. The very scientific and potentially dry discussion of research projects is told in a way that leaves you with the feeling that you really understand what is going on in the SIDS research arena, and you also feel like you know each player in this community. When the story turns back to the Hoyt case and its conclusion, the reader fully undertands the what, why, and how of the events. Without the exploration of the history of SIDS, the ending of the story would have much less impact. I didn't realize until I was finished just how personal the book had become for me. I went immediately online to Amazon and typed "Munchausen by Proxy" in the search bar.
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Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, is found strangled to death in a London hospital. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime. Gradually, Monk assembles the portrait of a remarkable woman. Yet he also discerns the shadow of a tragic evil and a frightening glimmer of his own eclipsed past . . .
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Very suspenseful.......2007-01-20
Anne Perry keeps you guessing from the first page. What an imagination!
Read this book........2005-11-12
It has everything an absorbing suspenseful victorian mystery could possess and it has extreme relevance to our mutual modern lives. History: it is unbiased history made up as fiction. Life manners pain and hypocrisy in the century behind us but all of this is still happening right now. Do not read if reality offends you.
painfully obvious.......2005-03-12
I won't bother to rehash the plot of this book, as that has been done. I have very much enjoyed the William Monk series, but was quite disappointed with this particular entry. Although I agree with the reviewer that the opening scene with Marianne does not originally make sense to the reader, the relevance becomes pretty clear by at most page 100. The 200 pages or so devoted to determining what it was Prudence actually wanted were almost completely wasted. I had figured out the answer to this question immediately, but thought that in Perry's traditional style, Monk and crew would be pick this up as easily as I had, and then it would be on to the next twist. Alas, they did not pick this up until the last 20-30 pages of the book!! The last chapter, which a previous reviewer raved about, in my opinion was remniscent of some of Patricia Cornwell's poorly exectued later entries in her Kay Scarpetta series: pick a person randomly to solve the crime. Also, character development was not up to Perry's usual standards; there was no additional insights or progressions of any of the ongoing relationships. Why wasn't Evan in this book? I gave the book two stars because I enjoyed both the description of hospital consitions in 1850's London and did originally like the plot but that it was not brought to a sufficient height and lacked "meat." I will continue reading Perry, since I know later books in this series are up to her usual standards, but would forewarn readers that this is not the book to start with if one wishes to "test" Perry.
A strange book.......2003-03-22
When I began the book (with the problem of Marianne) it obviously had five stars, when you finish that part you won't understand why it was written in so many pages and it really doesn't have to do anything with the book, so the book has now four stars, in the middle of the book, when you see why it was written the [beginning], the book has only three stars ..., and that keeps during all the judgment of the doctor (I won't tell you which one because I will tell you the story), but when the judgment is almost over, when you almost finish the book you will see that this is definitely a five stars book, And when you read the last chapter you will see that you will recommend this book to your friends.
Mysteries abound.......2002-07-28
It is a mystery to me that Amazon.com should begin reviews of the mysteries by Anne Perry by quoting "Kirkus reviews." The results are predictable -- the reviewer dislikes all of the strengths of these novels. He cannot appreciate Perry's real skill in character development. He is opposed to any discussion of the status of women in Victorian England; dislikes Perry's careful depictions of social mores and class status in Victorian London --despite the fact that these are often the very crux of the novels. One of the best examples is "A Breach of Promise." I haven't the Kirkus review for that novel but I am willing to bet that he really really hated it!
Actually, this series of novels should be called the
Hester Latterly - William Monk - Oliver Rathbone series. Hester is often the central sleuth and it is the links between these three characters which move the plots forward ingeniously. As example of this I recommend "A Breach of Promise which the Kirkus reviewer undoubtedly hated.
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Living With Grief: After Sudden Loss Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke
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A critique.......2000-08-05
Living with Grief after Sudden Loss brings the reader into the world of the survivor. The tragedy has shattered and forever changed the world in which he or she lives. Leading thanatologists, accomplished authors and those working in the field of loss and transition weave their experience in a book that deals with the grief proces and sudden death.
The book was written for those attending the 1996 Hospice Foundation of America's third annual teleconference. The book is a valuable guide for anyone working the field of death and dying. The book covers five critical points of interest. Grief is a highly individual reaction. Different types of sudden loss create unique issues for survivors. Survivors of sudden loss are often coping simultaneously with both grief and the loss of their normal world. Survivors of sudden loss need both short and long term intervention. Caregivers at all levels may be affected by traumatic loss so self-care is critical.
Ken Doka's book, Living with Grief after Sudden Loss is a book best reccommended for those working in the field of trauma. The chapters are written by leaders in the field, the findings are substantiated by empirical research and the topics covered are critical issues that need to be understood. There is much validity in the work and proves itself as an all in one source for living with grief after sudden loss.
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Formerly THE SIDS SURVIVAL GUIDE, this anthology was re-named in 2003 to reflect a broader readership. Revised and updated for 2003, it provides new research information and new articles and poems by parents who've lost children to SIDS and other deaths such as suffocation. Nineteen chapters cover everything from the particular grief of mothers, fathers, siblings, grandparents, and child-care providers to guilt, anger, dreams, premonitions, peer and professional support, planning funerals, enduring anniversaries, and having subsequent children.
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A must have.......2007-07-13
If you have lost a child to sids then you must get this. It was recommended to me and it has been a valuable tool. It is fully of case studies, answers to questions you wont have thought of and usefull information on how to try and get through this.
Helpful Resource For Grieving Families .......2007-01-03
Horchler and Rice give comfort, encouragement, and insight to the issues that surround Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Infant Death. Families who have suffered the devastating loss of a baby will find many questions they may have answered among the pages. The topics covered bring a sense of normalcy and healing to the bereaved as the authors guide the reader down the path of surviving their loss and again finding joy in living.
A Life Saver.......2001-11-12
The SIDS Survival Guide was my beacon of light during the darkest part of my life. My son, Dominic, passed away from SIDS on April 10, 2001, at only 4 1/2 months young. I began to reach out and search for all the information I could find on SIDS, drinking it all in by the bucket. A few months after he died, I found "The SIDS Survival Guide", and am so incredibly thankful. There was so much information, so many stories so like my own. I shed many tears while reading it for the first time, and even now, when I go back to read sections, I still cry. I am now expecting our second child in June 2002, and am scared to death. But knowing that I am informed about SIDS is somewhat of a comfort to me; in a way, I am as prepared as I can ever be. I would recommend this book to anyone expecting a child, who has a young baby, or knows someone who is or does.
Sanity check.......2001-02-17
My husband and I lost our son to SIDS in September of 2000. Our souls have been torn. The grieving process over his death has been draining. I recall little over the past 4+ months since his death. The one thing I do recall is thinking I was going crazy. I had wished their was another SIDS survivor I could speak with. Someone who could possibly relate to what my husband and I were going through. Someone who could understand our emotions. I searched under the keyword SIDS and found this book. I have not read the book in its entirety. I have read the sections I have needed at the particular times in my grieving. This book has helped me confirm that I am not going crazy. What I am feeling, though very personal, is normal. I feel this book is a neccesity for any parent who has to suffer this terrible tragedy. I have placed an order of these books in my babies memory to send to my state SIDS Coordinator in hopes that other parents may find comfort in its contents. Thank you Joani and Robin.
Very good source of information about SIDS.......1999-12-05
This book is one of the best for SIDS information
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the epidemiology, pathology and physiology of SIDS. It gives an emphasis to new theories of causation, new diagnostic approaches, recent changes in epidemiology, recently developed international protocols and analyses of current problems in both the diagnosis and approach to SIDS. In addition, parental concerns, medicolegal issues and the perspective of different ethnic groups are also featured. The text contains a wide variety of topics and viewpoints from many highly respected SIDS researchers from Australasia, Europe, and North America.
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