Since 1993 the nonprofit organization Compassion in Dying Federation has been advocating for a social revolution that seeks more humane and caring options for dying individuals---including end-of-life choice. From its inception, this group has worked to support and counsel individuals on how to achieve a peaceful and humane death. Many amazing stories have unfolded from individuals who have turned to Compassion in Dying, and specifically, those seeking end-of-life choice with Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. These stories are from individuals who sought to use the Death with Dignity Act. Most ... View More...
This book covers everything a person needs to know to get his or her affairs in order or to handle the death of another--information that is often hard to find or rough to research during ilness or bereavement. It offers complete state-by-state listings of agencies that advise on everything from organ donation to home burial regulations and much more. View More...
In this moving and compassionate classic--now updated with new material from the authors--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 r... View More...
In this moving and compassionate classic--now updated with new material from the authors--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 r... View More...
A collection of contemporary writings on immortality covers mysticism, shamanism, altered states of consciousness, and out-of-body experiences. View More...
Death is not unnatural and grieving is not a process to be avoided, rushed or silenced. This book offers powerful lessons about the cycle of life and the power of people with developmental disabilities to master deep emotional challenges.Linda Van Dyke employs the universal languages of art, music and drama to help the people she counsels to explore the newness and the wide range of feelings that come with a death loss. She invites them to see the beauty of the final separation of the physical body from the eternal spirit.Underlying the Here Comes the Balloon method is a firm belief in the hea... View More...
What death can teach us about how to live. What is the greatest mystery in life? That although we see people die every day, we never believe we will die.Easwaran is one of the twentieth century's great spiritual teachers and an authentic guide to timeless wisdom. In this book Easwaran addresses the lessons death can bring. He sheds light on the perennial questions of time, desire, the nature of the mind, and the realization that the body is only the jacket of the soul, and that in death the body dies, but the person does not.Nothing in life is more important than death, and nothing more urgent... View More...
The classic New York Times bestseller that has helped millions of women cope with and heal from the grief of losing their mothers Although a mother's mortality is inevitable no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters, which became an instant classic. More than twenty years later, it is still the go-to book that women of all ages look to for comfort, help, and understanding when their mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother loss survivors, Edelman's personal story of losing her mother, and recent research in ... View More...
When Hope Edelman finished writing Motherless Daughters, she thought she had said all she could about the long-term effects of early mother loss. Published in 1994, the book touched a nerve in women across the country and went on to become an enduring New York Times bestseller. Edelman, who was seventeen when her own mother died, told the collective story of mother loss with such candor, empathy, and informed wisdom that she quickly became a widely recognized expert on the topic.But when she became a parent, she found herself revisiting her loss in ways she had never anticipated. Now the mothe... View More...
Internationally acclaimed psychic medium John Edward takes his talents to new levels and new countries in his fourth book, AFTER LIFE: Answers from the Other Side. Join John and a documentary crew "Down Under" in Australia and across the United States, where he demonstrates once again that grief, healing, and hope are eternally intertwined and universal. John answers your most often-asked questions about how the mediumship process works on the "other side," while taking you on the inside of his own personal life as a husband and new father. He shares what he's learned through his own recent, ... View More...
