title: Life After Death: Practical Help for the Widowed
author:  Elizabeth Bookser Barkley 
description: <div>Elizabeth Bookser Barkley, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the department of English and modern languages at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati. She has written extensively for <i>Catholic Update</i> and <i>St. Anthony Messenger</i> and is the author of <i>Handing On the Faith: When You Are a Godparent</i>, <i>Loving the Everyday: Meditations for Moms</i>, and <i>Woman to Woman: Seeing God in Everyday Life</i>.</div>
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  For Higgins  
  and Mistry.
  
  
  May they continue  
  to live happy,  
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  # _Acknowledgments_
  
  
  Thanks to Mollie Doyle at Villard for her patience, calm, and understanding;
  and to Barbara Lowenstein, without whom this project would never have
  happened. Thanks in particular to Norman Kurz at Lowenstein Assodates for his
  help.
  
  
  Thanks also to Drs. Michael Garvey, Ann Hohenhaus, Katherine Houpt, and
  Melissa Wallace for their contributions, and espedally to Dr. John Pinckney
  for his heroic efforts.
  
  
  Last, but by no means least, thanks to my husband, Arthur Hettich, for his
  continuing encouragement and support.
  
  
  —Elizabeth Randolph
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A Healthy Cat’s Body
  
  
  In this chapter is a short description of the 