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  • Awake at the Bedside

    Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care

    Edited by Koshin Paley Ellison, Matt Weingast ...
    This book isn’t about dying. It’s about life and what life has to teach us. It’s about caring and what giving care really means.In Awake at the Bedside, pioneers of palliative and end-of-life care as well as doctors, chaplains, caregivers and even poets offer wisdom that will challenge, uplift, comfort—and change the way we think about death.Equal parts instruction manual and spiritual testimony, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    A Mother's Story from Diagnosis to Healing After Loss

    by Shelly Dubois ...
    In the spring of 2006, Shelly Dubois is as happy as she’s ever been. A recent move to beautiful Vancouver Island has proven to be a terrific decision. Her husband Jean is pleased with his new job, their younger daughter Aleida is adjusting well, and their eighteen-year-old, Chantal, is finishing up her twelfth grade year back in Alberta so she can graduate with her lifelong friends. Shelly has a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Last Acts

    Discovering Possibility and Opportunity at the End of Life

    by David J. Casarett, , M.D. ...
    Palliative care physician Dr. David Casarett considers the medical options terminal patients face at the end of life in this thoughtful and illuminating guide to last acts.What would you do if you had only a few days to live? Or a few weeks or months? What if a loved one were in this situation—how could you help that person decide how to spend the time that remained? Perhaps you lost a family ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved

    Edited by Yoshiharu Tomatsu, Jonathan S. Watts ...
    Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying. Indeed, the tradition emphasizes turning toward the realities of sickness, old age, and death - and using those very experiences to develop wisdom and liberating compassion. In recent decades, Buddhist chaplains and caregivers all over the world have been drawing on this tradition to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Art of Conversation Through Serious Illness

    Lessons for Caregivers

    by Richard McQuellon, Michael Cowan ...
    Every day, thousands of people receive a diagnosis of serious, life-threatening illness, and their families and friends suddenly become caregivers. Despite the best of intentions it is not always easy to communicate well under these circumstances, or find deep empathy for something one has never before experienced. When is it best to speak, and when to be silent? How can someone provide real ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My Father's Wake

    How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die

    by Kevin Toolis ...
    "A long meditation on death, dying, and our attitudes to mortality" this memoir by a BAFTA award winning filmmaker is "healing and somehow life-affirming." — The GuardianDeath is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice.Each day, along with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DEATH

    A Practical Guide to Talking about End-of-Life Care and Dying

    by Sally Cant ...
    Conversations About Death is the result Sally Cant’s twenty years in the death and dying industry. It contains a wealth of information that will make you feel more relaxed, open and comforted by talking about death and dying. Conversations About Death is a much needed tool: to assist in those conversations about what things a person might consider for themselves and their families regarding their ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Talking About Death Won’t Kill You

    The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations

    by Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller ...
    This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dyingDeath is a part of life. We used to understand this, and in the past, loved ones generally died at home with family around them. But in just a few generations, death has become a medical event, and we have lost the ability to make this last part of life more personal and meaningful. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leaning into Sharp Points

    Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support for Caregivers

    by PhD Stan Goldberg ...
    Whether you’re coping with a loved one who has received a terminal diagnosis, has a long-term illness or disability, or suffers with dementia, caregiving is challenging and crucial. Those who face this responsibility, whether occasionally or 24/7, are brushing up against life’s sharpest point. In this book, Stan Goldberg offers an honest, caring, and comprehensive guide to those on this journey. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Moments Near Life's End

    It's hard to say goodbye

    by Graham Swanson M. D. ...
    We are all going to die some day. In this book I share experiences of others as they face the dying process. It is never easy, always sad. By hearing what others have gone through, hearing their stories, it helps us come to terms with what will happen to us and our loved ones. Reading some of the stories has triggered people to look at their lives through different eyes. Not every story applies to ... Read more

    $6.51 USD

  • The Arts of Contemplative Care

    Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work

    by Pat Enkyo O'Hara ...
    Powerful and life-affirming, this watershed volume brings together the voices of pioneers in the field of contemplative care--from hospice and hospitals to colleges, prisons, and the military. Illustrating the day-to-day words and actions of pastoral workers, each first-person essay in this collection offers a distillation of the wisdom gained over years of compassionate experience. The stories ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Isaiah's Story

    by Jennifer Ross ...
    On August 3, 2008 at nineteen weeks and three days pregnant Jennifer and her husband said a heartbreaking goodbye to their son Isaiah. Jennifer suffered from a condition called Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. With only a thirty percent chance of survival, Jennifer was instructed to have labor induced due to this life-threatening condition. Jennifer shared fifteen priceless minutes of life ... Read more

    $9.99 USD