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Recommended Reading
Death and Dignity:
Making Choices and Taking Charge
Shows patients and family members how to make crucial decisions at the end of someone's life. It provides invaluable guidance for those who fear unnecessary suffering and excessive medical intervention. Featured in The New York Times and USA Today.
Death and Dignity Dying, Grieving, Faith, and Family:
A Pastoral Care Approach
No other book covers all these themes. Not only a great resource for practical guidance, this book is also meant to be provocative, suggestive, and stimulating to professionals and educators charged with working with and teaching about dying and grieving persons.
Dying, Grieving, Faith, and Family Facing Death:
Where Culture, Religion, and Medicine Meet
This profound and eloquent book brings together health professionals and distinguished authorities in the humanities to reflect on medical, cultural, and religious responses to death.
Physicians and other caregivers describe their experiences witnessing death, and theologians, historians, anthropologists, literary scholars, and pastors tell how other cultures and religions perceive death and mourn. For medical personnel and for patients, this collection affirms that death is less an adversary than a defining part of life.
Facing Death I Don't Know What to Say:
How to Help and Support Someone Who Is Dying
Dr. Buckman, himself once diagnosed as having a fatal illness, addresses the patient's need for information, as well as the needs of his or her family and friends; the way to support a dying parent or child; and the complications of caring for those afflicted with AIDS or cancer.
I Don't Know What to Say I'm With You Now:
A Guide Through Incurable Illness
for Patients, Families, and Friends
Provides the most practical advice and useful guidelines for making a loved one's final journey more comfortable, more caring, and more loving. Includes: tips on how best to initiate painful discussions about wills and funerals, how to voice regrets and hopes, and when and how to bring up painful intimate family matters such as legacies and hospice care alternatives.
Throughout, Ray includes heartwarming, and heart wrenching, stories of patients and families she has worked with that illustrate the complexities and often intense emotional moments that can occur. In short, this is the most important book you can read if someone you care about faces serious illness.
I'm With You Now Intimate Death:
How the Dying Teach Us How to Live
The author spent seven years tending to the dying in a Parisian hospital for the terminally ill. Writing candidly and eloquently, she shows how death can be transformed from something lonely and agonizing into a sacred encounter, suffused by moments of profound humanity and peace.
Intimate Death Mortally Wounded:
Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing
Hospice medical director presents his views of the healing process in the context of the stories of 10 patients, so general concepts and processes are brought to bear on concrete situations.
Kearney has learned from his mistakes with this process, as he shows by relating how he and each patient grew in understanding of themselves and one another. He discovered that healer and patient do not always progress at the same rate and that healers must not only adjust their approaches but also determine whose pain they are trying to alleviate.
--William Beatty
Mortally Wounded Stay Close and Do Nothing:
A Spiritual and Practical
Guide to Caring for the Dying at Home
Explains that caring for the dying can bring new life and meaning to caregivers. Using her firsthand experience in a Zen hospice in San Francisco, Collett covers the basics of feeding, cleaning, pain medications, handling visitors, and many more practical aspects of caregiving.
She urges people to grow personally while offering support, and to learn how to be fully present and pay attention while recognizing when it's best to merely stay close and do nothing. A practical, lovingly written book.
Stay Close and Do Nothing The Hospice Handbook:
A Complete Guide
by Larry Beresford.
The Hospice Handbook The Tao of Dying:
A Guide to Caring
The book wishes to affirm a way of interacting that is characterized by accepting people, things, and processes for what they are without trying to manipulate, alter, or control them. It emphasizes caring without trying to change or cure, respecting without limiting that respect.
The Tao of Dying