title: Beyond Loss: a Practical Guide Through Grief to a Meaningful Life
author:  Lilly Singer 
description: "This is a wonderfully wise book that will inform and encourage through the maze of mourning." -- <i>Anne Roiphe, author of Lovingkindness and Torch Song</i><br /><br />This guide leads from the devastation of loss to re-affirmation of life, serving as a balm for the broken heart. -- <i>Dr. Lillian Carson, author of</i><br /><br />This is a wonderfully wise book that will inform, prepare, support, guide and encourage through the maze of mourning. -- <i>Anne Roiphe, author of</i>
zlib_text: Exit Stage Six
  by A. J. Downey
  
   
  Text copyright ©2014 A.J. Downey
  All Rights Reserved
  
  Dedication
   
  To my fiancé, the real rock star in our relationship who more often
  times ends up more like a roadie than in the spotlight. You are an incredible
  hardworking man and I love you. Keep on keepin’ on!
  
   
   
  “There are five stages go the grieving process. They don’t come in
  any particular order, they aren’t any of them pleasant… They just are what
  they are and you can’t go around them or skip any of them, you just have
  to go through them, feel them all and come out the other side. That’s his
  reality right now, and he needs people strong enough to hold him up
  through the worst parts. “ –London Greene
  
  Prologue
   
  The news report came back from commercial break with the loud and
  serious peal of music denoting an intense story.
  Breaking news!  Flashed across the screen in bold gold letters on a
  blue and white background. The news station’s colors…
  “Singer songwriter Drake Tremaine of Elysium fam