The Intimacy Of Death And Dying

Author : Zenith Virago
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781459603745

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The Intimacy of Death and Dying by Zenith Virago Pdf

When someone we love dies suddenly, or after a serious illness, we're often left wondering if we could have done more. How prepared are we to care for loved ones, talk to children about death, deal with the death of young and old, and honour someone's life? In this uplifting book, filled with people's personal stories, the authors will inspire you with their warmth, wisdom and practical suggestions, as they share dozens of ways to make the death and dying of those you love everything you'd want it to be. Authors Claire Leimbach, Trypheyna McShane and Zenith Virago draw on their work and experiences around death and dying to bring readers an extraordinarily compassionate, practical, inspiring guide to this momentous time in our lives.

Author : Claire Leimbach,Trypheyna McShane,Zenith Virago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0369321510

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The Intimacy of Death and Dying by Claire Leimbach,Trypheyna McShane,Zenith Virago Pdf

When someone we love dies suddenly, or after a serious illness, we're often left wondering if we could have done more. How prepared are we to care for loved ones, talk to children about death, deal with the death of young and old, and honour someone's life? In this uplifting book, filled with people's personal stories, the authors will inspire you with their warmth, wisdom and practical suggestions, as they share dozens of ways to make the death and dying of those you love everything you'd want it to be. Authors Claire Leimbach, Trypheyna McShane and Zenith Virago draw on their work and experiences around death and dying to bring readers an extraordinarily compassionate, practical, inspiring guide to this momentous time in our lives.

Author : Eve Joseph
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781628726275

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In the Slender Margin by Eve Joseph Pdf

Like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, an extraordinarily moving and engaging look at loss and death. Eve Joseph is an award-winning poet who worked for twenty years as a palliative care counselor in a hospice. When she was a young girl, she lost a much older brother, and her experience as a grown woman helping others face death, dying, and grief opens the path for her to recollect and understand his loss in a way she could not as a child. In the Slender Margin is an insider's look at an experience that awaits us all, and that is at once deeply fascinating, frightening, and in modern society shunned. The book is an intimate invitation to consider death and our response to it without fear or morbidity, but rather with wonder and a curious mind. Writing with a poet's precise language and in short meditative chapters leavened with insight, warmth, and occasional humor, Joseph cites her hospice experience as well as the writings of others across generations—from the realms of mythology, psychology, science, religion, history, and literature—to illuminate the many facets of dying and death. Offering examples from cultural traditions, practices, and beliefs from around the world, her book is at once an exploration of the unknowable and a very humane journey through the land of grief.

Author : Eve Joseph
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443426732

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In The Slender Margin by Eve Joseph Pdf

Part memoir, part meditation, this book is an exploration of death from an “insider’s” point of view. Using the threads of her brother’s early death and her twenty years of work in hospice care, Eve Joseph utilizes history, religion, philosophy, literature, personal anecdote, mythology, poetry and pop culture to discern the unknowable and illuminate her travels through the land of the dying. This is neither an academic text nor a self-help manual; rather, it is a foray into the land of death and dying as seen through the lens of art and the imagination. Rather than relying solely on narrative, In the Slender Margin gains momentum from a build-up of thematic resonances. Joseph writes toward thinking about death and in the process finds the brother she lost as a young girl. She wrote the book as a way to understand what she had seen: the mysterious and the horrific. Replete with literary allusions and references, from Joan Didion and Susan Sontag to D. H. Lawrence and Voltaire, this is an absolutely absorbing and inspired consideration of how we die and how we deal with it; a profoundly moving and helpful meditation on the mystery that awaits us all.

Author : Marie De Hennezel
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307486349

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Intimate Death by Marie De Hennezel Pdf

How do we learn to die? Most of us spend our lives avoiding that question, but this luminous book--a major best-seller in France--answers it with a directness and eloquence that are nothing less than transforming. As a psychologist in a hospital for the terminally ill in Paris, Marie de Hennezel has spent seven years tending to people who are relinquishing their hold on life. She tells the stories of her patients and their families. de Hennezel teaches us how to turn death--our loved ones' or our own--from something lonely and agonizing into a sacred passage. She discusses the importance of an honest reckoning, the value of ritual, the necessity of touch. In imparting these lessons, Intimate Death becomes a guide to living more fully, more intensely, than we had thought possible. "Unique...Of all the books I have read about the endings of our lives, this elegiac testimony has taught me the most."--Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., author of How We Die "The quiet, obvious truths [de Hennezel] discovers in her work--these things have a kind of cumulative power."--Washington Post Book World From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Karla Erickson
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439908249

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How We Die Now by Karla Erickson Pdf

As we live longer and die slower and differently than our ancestors, we have come to rely more and more on end-of-life caregivers. These workers navigate a changing landscape of old age and death that many of us have little preparation to encounter. How We Die Now is an absorbing and sensitive investigation of end-of-life issues from the perspectives of patients, relatives, medical professionals, and support staff. Karla Erickson immersed herself in the daily life of workers and elders in a Midwestern community for over two years to explore important questions around the theme of “how we die now.” She moves readers through and beyond the many fears that attend the social condition of old age and reveals the pleasures of living longer and the costs of slower, sometimes senseless ways of dying. For all of us who are grappling with the “elder boom,” How We Die Now offers new ways of thinking about our longer lives.

Author : Amy L. (Amy Lisa) Lister
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Arts
ISBN : 0612842231

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Dying to be Alive [microform] : Portraits of the Intimacy Between Life and Death by Amy L. (Amy Lisa) Lister Pdf

Author : Lloyd Steffen,Nate Hinerman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789004399204

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New Perspectives on the End of Life: Essays on Care and the Intimacy of Dying by Lloyd Steffen,Nate Hinerman Pdf

This inter-disciplinary volume gathers scholars from around the world to explore clinical, cultural and ethical perspectives on end-of-life care, not only for the dying but also for those who attend the dying as caregivers.

Author : Brad DeFord,Richard B. Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Death
ISBN : 0895036533

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Living, Loving and Loss by Brad DeFord,Richard B. Gilbert Pdf

This book will be of value in undergraduate and graduate courses on thanatology, as well as for anyone interested in knowing more about grief--both those currently bereaved and those who wish to support others in mourning.

Author : Richard Wagner, Ph.D., ACS
Publisher : The Nazca Plains Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781610982009

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The Amateur's Guide to Death and Dying by Richard Wagner, Ph.D., ACS Pdf

Lessons In The Art of Dying...and Living Thousands of people will receive a devastating medical diagnosis this year. And for most, what follows is a nightmare of anger, shame, loneliness and passivity. Instead of being encouraged to take a lead role in orchestrating their finales, they are expected to wait patiently for the curtain to fall. The Amateur’s Guide is on the cutting edge of death and dying work. It provides an opportunity to break free from the painful silence our culture imposes on death talk. Whether filling out a durable power of attorney form, completing a death anxiety survey or personally designing a unique end-of-life plan, you will be totally involved and engaged. This unique seminar/support group format exposes you to a myriad of life situations and moral dilemmas that arise as one faces his/her mortality head on. Learn from and with people just like you. Ten diverse fictional characters provide essential role models for enhancing life near death. Additionally, six presenters, experts in their field, offer timely advice to help make the end of life less intimidating and more of a rich, poignant transition. This is about achieving a good and wise death in the context of real dying, with all its unpredictability, disfigurement, pain, and sorrow. This workbook is primarily for those currently facing their mortality. But concerned family and friends, healing and helping professionals, lawyers, clergy, teachers, students, and those grieving a death will all benefit from joining in. Because, as we all know, none of us is getting out of here alive.

Author : Kenneth Doka,Amy Tucci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1893349241

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Intimacy and Sexuality During Illness and Loss by Kenneth Doka,Amy Tucci Pdf

Author : Paul C. Rosenblatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1566398045

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Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child by Paul C. Rosenblatt Pdf

Many parents who have experienced the death of a child struggle with painful and at times overwhelming marital problems. Grieving can create great marital distance, and it can magnify those problems that existed before the child's death. Grieving parents often fear that divorce is a real possibility. This book can help.

Author : Dave S. Pollock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4283439355

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Between Death and Dying by Dave S. Pollock Pdf

Dying and death are inevitable to all living beings. Everyone who is born will one day die, and there are fewer things in life that are more certain and final than death. Despite such certainty, death and dying are shrouded in mystery-as much because of the practical fact that no one knows what happens after we die, and because so many of us go to great lengths to avoid thinking about death at all. The inevitability of death and dying is matched, perhaps, only by the strength of the taboo they have been ascribed. However, despite and perhaps because of that forbidden nature, there are communities that wish to build more intimacy with death and dying so as to depotentiate the pervasive fear of the unknown from which no one can ultimately hide. This desire for a deeper relationship can be seen in the proliferation of training programs for death doulas, the materialization of death cafés, and an abundance of literature about death and dying from academic and practitioner sources.

Author : Samuel L Oliver,April Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781317790303

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What the Dying Teach Us by Samuel L Oliver,April Ford Pdf

What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living is a spiritual approach to health care that teaches the reader about values, hope, and faith through actual experiences of terminally ill persons. This unique approach to health care teaches the living how to deal with grief and the bereavement process through faith and prayer. Priests, pastors, chaplains, and psychotherapists will learn how to treat parishioners or patients with the values the dying leave behind, allowing part of their deceased loved one’s beliefs and teachings to guide them through the grieving process. In the end, you will also become aware of your spiritual self while helping others heal and renew their soul. While What the Dying Teach Us concentrates on the values you can learn from the terminally ill, the author includes his own views on: how our tears manifest the depth into which our relationship with a deceased loved one travels how dimensions of reality lead us to appreciate the present experiencing events in life without judgment or comparison the role faith may play in health care as a healer of the terminally ill how the strength of prayer can drastically change lives What the Dying Teach Us celebrates the spirit loved ones leave behind and teaches you how to surrender into an eternal relationship with them. Furthermore, because of this experience, you will be able to find a new and deeper realization of your own existence. What the Dying Teach Us will help you spiritually connect with yourself as well as with deceased loved ones that continue to live on through faith.

Author : Marney Thompson,Victoria Hospice Society,Wendy Wainwright
Publisher : Health Professions Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1938870654

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Transitions in Dying and Bereavement by Marney Thompson,Victoria Hospice Society,Wendy Wainwright Pdf

Preceded by Transitions in dying and bereavement: a psychosocial guide for hospice and palliative care / by Victoria Hospice Society and Moira Cairns, Marney Thompson, Wendy Wainwright. c2003.