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Our Grieving Experts

Dr. Therese Rando

Dr. Therese Rando

Psychologist, grief specialist and author of How to Go on...

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David Kessler

David Kessler

Journalist, author and motivational speaker

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Helen Fitzgerald

Helen Fitzgerald

Certified death educator, author and lecturer

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Jane Bissler, Ph.D.

A counselor, teacher, writer and speaker, Bissler has developed a talent for giving people the means to develop new mental, spiritual and emotional perspectives on the distress in their lives.  
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Jerri Lyons

Lyons is the founding director of Final Passages, which focuses on family-run funerals and alternatives to current funeral practices. She is a minister and death midwife who has also led workshops and been featured in a PBS documentary, “A Family Undertaking.”
Posted: 12/18/2007 02:41 PM EST more »

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Joshua Slocum

Slocum is the executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, a non-profit group that provides informational pamphlets for families dealing with the funeral planning process.
Posted: 12/18/2007 02:43 PM EST more »

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Lisa Carlson

As the executive director of the Funeral Ethics Organization, Carlson is an expert on funerals and the author of Caring for the Dear: Your Final Act of Love, on funeral law for consumers, and works to protect Americans’ rights in dealing with the funeral industry.
Posted: 12/18/2007 02:38 PM EST more »

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Therese A. Rando Ph.D.

A clinical psychologist in Rhode Island, Rando is the Clinical Director of the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss, which specializes in loss and grief, traumatic stress and the psychosocial care of persons with chronic or terminal illness.
Posted: 12/18/2007 02:42 PM EST more »