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Approaching Death

A Companion's Guide to the End of Life
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Just as no person is the same as another, each death is individual. This special book does not promote methodologies or theories, but rather offers insights, information and contemplations on the end of life. It supports the companions of those on their dying journey, whether volunteers, medical professionals, pastors or loved ones.  
 
Renée Zeylmans taught courses on accompanying dying and bereavement for many years. She described the journey towards death as a reciprocal process, asking not only how do we travel with those who are dying and what can we give them, but what do they give us? This book is the fruit of a lifetime's work, and her intention was for it to enrich the reader, throw a new light on difficult situations, evoke recognition, console and offer choices.  
 
As well as host of practical information about dying and death -- including questions around the physiology of death, fear, fasting, funerals, music, language, and human senses -- the book contains contemplations and meditations from different world views and cultures.
Foreword -- Bastiaan Baan
Preface
 
I Being a Companion to a Dying Person
-- 1. Dying is Being Born in the Spiritual World
-- 2. Death is as a Horizon
-- 3. The 'Unknown' Hour of Death
-- 4. Developing Awareness of Our Future Realm
-- 5. When People Close to Us Die
-- 6. The Person Dying as Fellow Traveller -- Monique van der Zanden
-- 7. When Young People Die
-- 8. Experiences in a Children's Hospital -- Patricia de Vos
 
II Care for the Dying
-- 9. The Senses of the One Dying
-- 10. The Language of Images at the Threshold -- Bert Voorhoeve
-- 11. Music for Terminally Ill People -- Hilly Bol
-- 12. Artistic Therapy -- Marieke Udo de Haes-Mulder
-- 13. External Therapy -- Pauli van Engelen and Toke Bezuijen
 
III Death is Approaching
-- 14. The Physiology of Dying -- Paul Schmitz, MD
-- 15. Euthanasia
-- 16. Fasting until Death
-- 17. The Double: My Shadow
-- 18. The Moment of Dying
 
IV After Death
-- 19. Coincidence?
-- 20. The Funeral
-- 21. Accompanying the Dying and Christian Ritual -- Bastiaan Baan
-- 22. Mourning by Friends and Relatives
-- 23. Across the Threshold of Death
-- 24. Staying Connected with the Dead
 
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