The Loss of a Pet: A Guide to Coping with the Grieving Process When a Pet Dies (Fourth Edition)
Understanding helps heal the hurt when you lose a pet.
This award-winning book has been hailed as the seminal work in the field. And now the fourth newly revised and expanded edition offers so much more to the bereaving pet owner. This edition also includes a significant new way of considering the meaning of afterlife for us and our pets. It discusses the topic from a twenty-first century scientific perspective that is very different from existing religious or metaphysical ones, offering a new comfort to skeptics and agnostics as well.
This book will help you in your healing from that special loss. It includes topics such as:
- Validating this special kind of grief
- The grieving process, including typical stages of bereavement and techniques for coping
- Children and the death of a pet
- Euthanasia, including important emotional considerations
- Religion and the death of a pet, with articles by various religious leaders
- Aftercare facilities, including an extensive index of pet cemeteries, crematories, and memorial gardens
And there is a special chapter at the end, offering helpful hints and suggestions.
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Book details
- Author
- Wallace Sife
- Imprint
- Howell Book House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Self-Help › Death, Grief, Bereavement
Pets › Reference - Topics
- pet loss · grief and bereavement · coping with loss · euthanasia · afterlife · healing after loss · pet owners
- ISBN-13
- 9781630260798 (Paperback)9781684424887 (Hardcover)
About the author
WALLACE SIFE, PH.D. was a psychologist and psychotherapist with decades of practice in Brooklyn, New York, and the founder and CEO of the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement (APLB), a nonprofit dedicated to helping grieving pet owners. He is the author of The Loss of a Pet.
Sife’s book won the Maxwell Award for best nonfiction pet book of 1993. He held a B.A. and M.A. from Brooklyn College and was an internationally recognized pioneer in pet bereavement, also training counselors in bereavement support.
When not writing, Sife led the APLB and worked as a practicing psychotherapist; his expertise in grief and loss shaped his work on pet bereavement directly.
Sife was a Korean War veteran who died on April 8, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York, from complications related to COVID-19.