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This book is about changing the conversation about death from denial and fear to acceptance and inspiration.

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From supporting a husband or wife faced with the loss of a spouse to helping a dying mother prepare her children to carry on without her, Callanan's poignant stories illustrate new ways to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges of this difficult and precious time. She brings welcome clarity to medical and ethical concerns, explaining what to expect at every stage.

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When people we love are dying, we all too often are unable to help them - or even talk to them - or face our own conflicting feelings about the impending loss. This authoritative and empathetic guide demystifies the dying process and offers practical advice for the friends and families of the terminally ill.

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This is a practical help for anyone involved in congregational visitation ministry. Examples of actual hospital visit illustrates the basic dos and don't of caring for patients' personal and spiritual needs.

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Professor Shelp learned about neonatology not from an armchair but from being where the action is, where the tragic dilemmas of care exist and must be faced. With unprecedented depth, he examines these dilemmas in light of past and present moral, legal, religious, family, and social conditions; and he draws some practical though disquieting conclusions which are instructive for all of us.

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This book starts with definitions of death - medical and philosophical - and proceeds to discuss attitudes towards death in other times and places as well as our own.

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When Kushner's three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease that meant the boy would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life's most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes. Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being. Often imitated but never superseded, When Bad Things Happen to Good People is a classic that offers clear thinking and consolation in times of sorrow.

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In this book, Dr Remen, a cancer physician and master storyteller, uses her luminous stories to remind us of the power of our kindness and the joy of being alive. Her grandfather, an Orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kabbalah, saw life as a web of connection and knew that everyone belonged to him, and that he belonged to everyone. He taught her that blessing one another is what fills our emptiness, and connects us more deeply to life. Life has given us many more blessings than we have allowed ourselves to receive. My Grandfather's Blessing is about how we can recognize and receive our blessing and bless the life in others. Serving others heals us. Through our service we will discover our own wholeness - and the way to restore hidden wholeness in the world.

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Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. He examines its ultimate limitations and failures of his profession. As his life draws to a close, he discovers how we can do better.

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Written in non-medical language and large print for patients and the families from her experience as a registered nurse, hospice pioneer and award winning end of life educator.

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This book teaches an important lesson to those of us who must confront the death of a loved one. It includes practical information that makes decisions about death and dying easier and kinder.

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Facing death, and the fear and anxiety that arise from it, is part of the human experience. Though much has been done to address the physical pain suffered by those with a terminal illness, western medicine has been slow to understand and alleviate the psychological and spiritual distress that comes with the knowledge of death. In What Dying People Want, Dr Kuhl begins to bridge that gap. He shows us that we can learn lessons in living from those who are dying, and that it is possible to find meaning and peace in the face of death.

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In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories, we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the gifts - of wisdom, faith, and love - that the dying leave for the living to share. Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts show how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.

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Lap of Honour helps you handle the demands of illness so you can focus on living well. Lap of Honour is packed with practical advice to hep address the difficult question, such as: what does my diagnosis mean? How do I tell people? Can I travel to my bucket list destinations? How can I help my loved ones cope and remember me best?

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In this book, Kübler-Ross joins with David Kessler to guide us through the practical and spiritual lessons we need to learn so that we can live life to its fullest in every moment. Many years of working with the dying have shown the authors that certain lessons come up over and over again. Some of these lessons are enormously difficult to master, but even the attempts to understand them can be deeply rewarding. Here, in fourteen accessible chapters, front the Lesson Love to the Lesson Happiness, the authors reveal the truth about our fears, our hopes, our relationships, and, above all, about the grandness of who we really are.

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Sensitive and insightful, Facing Death, Embracing Life is a guide for people living with a terminal illness. In clear and compassionate language, Dr David Kuhl, an internationally renowned palliative care doctor, leads us through the emotional, psychological, and practical questions that confront us when we are facing death. Drawing on the wisdom and experience from his years of treating terminally ill patients, Dr Kuhl outlines ways to improve doctor-patient communication; methods to manage physical pain; strategies for holding a family meeting; and suggestions for sorting through the sum of a life's experiences.

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This book explains the key transitions that chronically ill and dying people, their families, and caregivers move through during the process from diagnosis to death to bereavement. Readers learn the most effective interventions to ease the confusion and stress experienced by clients during these transitions. Clear explanations along with case studies and sample dialogues reveal the issues and challenges presented at each phase of the journey.

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A guide to excellence in end-of-life care.

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Dr Stephanie Green reveal show assisted dying works: the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, what the event can look like, the reactions of friends and family, and how it feels to administer medications that hasten death. She describe the extraordinary people she encounters as she navigates the intricacy, intensity, and utter humanity of such powerful interactions. This book contextualizes the personal, professional, and practical issues surrounding assisted dying by bringing readers into the room with Dr Green and sharing the voices of her patients.

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In life's most difficult moments, we all want to help or say the right things. But what do you say? It can feel like all the rules have suddenly changed. This book will help you with what to say, or not to say, to people who are sick, dying, or grieving.

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When it comes to death, we are all beginners. What we could use is a clear-eyed, bighearted guide to walk us through not just the practical decisions we'll have to make in the coming hours, months, and years, but also how to face our fears and engage with loved ones. Which is why one of the country's leading hospice physicians and an experienced caregiver have teamed up to help us navigate this journey.

A Beginner's Guide to the End begins well before a diagnosis and ends well after the memorial. In these pages, you'll find everything from how to get the most out of a hospital visit to how to adapt your six life while coping with an illness There are also lessons for caregivers, like how to close down social media accounts and write a good eulogy.

An honest, surprising, and detailed Guide to the most universal of all experiences, A Beginner’s Guide to the End is an indispensable ally for the present day and the years ahead.

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This series of five booklets supports families through the end of life process, from diagnosis to grief.

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Part memoir, medical guide and spiritual text, Seven Year Summer seeks to uncover how healing is possible even when a cure is not.

While in her 30s, Anna Byrne was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma and spent over 2,000 hours in Canadian hospitals.

Seven years later, she met Eleanor, a woman in her 70s dying of renal failure. The two formed an unlikely friendship.

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This book is a collection of questions and answers from the author’s, Gabrielle Jimenez, Facebook community, The Hospice Heart.

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This book was created for young people who have someone in their life who may have MAiD. This book helps children learn more about MAiD, the questions, thoughts and feelings they may have about it.

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This book is a compilation of stories from seventeen people who have direct experience of their loved one choosing a medically assisted death. These stories facilitate real, emotional connection to the raw and uncensored experiences of the storytellers. Readers are encouraged to jump into this book at any point that reflects where they are n the MAiD journey and to know that they are not alone.

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For most people, the thought of dying or caring for terminally ill friend or family member raises fears and questions as old a humanity: What s a “good death”? What appropriate preparations should be made? How do we best support our loved ones as life draws to its close? In this nondenominational handbook the authors provide comfort, direction, and hope to the dying and their caregiver through nine archetypal stories that illustrate the most common end-of-life concerns. Drawing from personal experiences, these authors offer invaluable guidance on easing emotional pain and navigating this difficult final passage.

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Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine comes changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar, peaceful, and gentle - if sorrowful - transition, death has come to be something from which we shield our eyes, as we prefer to fight desperately against it rather than accept its inevitability. Weaving the details of her own experiences as a caregiver through stories of her patients, their families, and their distinctive lives, Dr Mannix reacquaints us with the universal, but deeply personal, process of dying.

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The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all background. Inspired by traditional Buddhist teaching, her work is a source of wisdom for all those who are charged with a dying person’s care, facing their own death, or wishing to explore and contemplate the transformative power of the drying process.