Facing Grief and Death

Tuck helps readers face gently, realistically, and reasonably the inevitable fact of grief and death. Tuck’s style is clear, thoroughly researched, and practical. People who have been hesitant to think and to talk about grief and death need to read this book. It has been helpful for me in my personal life and in my pastoral ministry of helping people cope with death and grief.

-Harold T. Bryson, emeritus professor, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

Life can be a most exciting, creative, wondrous, enthusiastic adventure or it can be a journey which is filled only with despair, pessimism, hopelessness, and depression. Our perspective towards life and death makes all the difference in the world. These pages are not written to encourage anyone to put on rose-colored glasses but are directed, hopefully, to challenge a realistic view of life. Death is a part of life which no one can avoid or escape. We may try to ignore it or disguise it, but it will still not go away. We must learn how to live with death—our own and others' whom we love.

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William Powell Tuck, a native of Virginia, has served as a pastor, seminary professor, as an adjunct college professor, and an Intentional Interim Pastor. He is the author of over forty books including The Ten Commandments, The Way for All Seasons, and Sharing the Good News. In 1977 he received a Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Richmond, in 1997 he received the Pastor of the Year Award from the Academy of Parish Clergy, and in 2016 received the Wayne Oates Award from the Oates Institute in Louisville, Kentucky. He and his wife, Emily, are the parents of two children and five grandchildren, and live in Richmond, Virginia.