A Dignified Ending challenges the idea that prolonging life by every means possible is the only reasonable response to a dire diagnosis or to intractable suffering. It uses true accounts to illustrate how people have choreographed their deaths, and it recommends that death with dignity laws include dementias and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Continuing Your Pregnancy When Your Baby's Life Is Expected to Be Brief
Now updated and expanded—a gentle and comprehensive guide for parents expecting a baby with a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting condition.
When prenatal testing reveals that a baby is expected to die before or shortly after birth, many parents choose to proceed with the pregnancy and embrace the time they are ......
In A Grief Received, JL Gerhardt offers a personal, authentic, and practical approach to weathering grief with hope. Through nine practices grieving people can adopt to position themselves to receive the gifts of grief, Gerhardt sheds light on a path to transformation.
Bereavement is undeniably one of the most challenging experiences a child can face. It is crucial for individuals caring for such children to be well-informed about how to provide the best support. This comprehensive guide on children's grief is designed for teachers, educators, psychologists, and family members, and aims to equip them with ......
A Funeral Director on Life, Death, and the Hereafter
What if our dead remain with us? What if the hereafter intersects with the here and now? In All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak, sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde takes readers on a lyrical, tender quest to encounter the hereafter. Through stories of grieving family members who remain, we witness the thin places between life and death.
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. ......
So often, the discussion of what comes at the end of life is side-stepped, avoided, delayed, or never had. Deciding how to make a "good" death, and where to have it, is difficult, but with guidance and examples, the dying and their families can make informed decisions that help ease the path. This book will help them do just that.
Taking readers on a journey through history guided by the mystics, Awakened by Death shows us how our psychological and spiritual relationship to death has changed over time, and helps us to reclaim a healthy engagement with our own mortality.
Showing how bereaved parents can develop and nurture ongoing bonds with their children who have passed away, grief counsellor Catherine Seigal shares stories of other parents' experiences to provide a supportive and valuable guide to helping people cope after this terrible life event.
