Putting Out the Fire

The phone rings - your breath falls away - and each moment becomes a lifetime. The death of someone significant in your world can rewrite the scope and breadth of who you are. But in this exact moment, you feel terribly emotional and yet totally numb in the same moment. Decisions, questions, family stress, and legalities are all pulling at you - what do you do first and how do you cope? When author Claire M. Schwartz lost her mother suddenly when she was 24, she experienced this exact crisis. Bu