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| Saying Goodbye Your Way...offers comprehensive information about the emotional and practical decisions that can be made in advance of "the time of need." | Book News anvilpub.com September 2004 |
| Saying Goodbye Your Way...is sparking dialogue across the country as spouses talke to spouses, partents talk to adult children, and...the subject of funerals [is discussed] with aging parents. | Pasadena Star
News August 21, 2004 |
| Saying Goodbye Your Way...is about choices....What most people want and need is some guidance, and Llewellyn's book provides it. | Susan Loving
Managing Editor, International Cemetery & Funeral
Management June 2004 |
| This is not an average "How To" Guide -- Funerary arrangements are detailed in this sensitive yet realistic guide to making the important, difficult decisions necessary when a loved one dies .... or when preparing for one's own departure. | Taphophilia July 2005 |
| Mortuaries and cemeteries offering few options would not be happy to see someone walk in the door holding a copy of Llewellyn's book. | International Cemetery & Funeral Magazine |
| Jerry Rabinowitz, 80, of Encino, was given 'Saying Goodbye Your Way' by a friend and called it the most informative book he had read. | Glendale News
Press Feb. 23, 2005 |
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| Saying Goodbye Your Way... offers readers a sensitive yet realistic guide to planning a powerful memorial that will honor a loved one and create an opportunity for emotional healing and comfort. As a guide for the individual in advance or the family in time of need, the book addresses practical matters and unexpected emotions that often accompany the distress of death. | Tessa
Warschaw, Ph.D. Author of Rich is Better, Winning By Negotiation, and Resiliency: How to bounce back faster, smarter, stronger |
| John Llewellyn has taken a lifetime of experience and crafted it into a beautiful, comprehensive roadmap designed to guide us through creating and planning funerals for ourselves and our loved ones. | John
E. Welshons Author of Awakening from Grief: Finding the Way Back to Joy |
| An aid for individuals planning their own services and families in the midst of final preparations, this book explores religious, cultural, and social traditions and demonstrates how they can be blended with an individual’s character and personality to transform services into life celebrations. The author combines useful advice and counsel with personal experience bringing a unique perspective to an often difficult topic. | Dr. Carol
Orsborn Author of Nothing Left Unsaid and The Art of Resilience |
| An extremely useful, informative book that illuminates many details surrounding disposition of the dead in the twenty-first century. It covers a wide range of funeral-related topics, including cremation, embalming, prearranging, and mourning, that can help the reader reflect on her or his own views about how best to say goodbye. | Gary
Laderman, Ph.D., Director, Graduate Division of Religion, Emory
University author of Rest In Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America |
| An informative insider’s guide to the often bewildering options in leave-taking in today’s culture of customization. | Stephen Prothero, Chairman of the Department of Religion, Boston University, Author of Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America |
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