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(More customer reviews)Although the topics covered are not easy ones, they are presented in a compassionate, thought provoking way. End of life topics are ones that all of us face...many times in life. Worth the read.
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"A gripping and passionate account of how we face the final rite ofpassage. These stories mine the agility of the human spirit, and willnot easily be forgotten."—Danielle Ofri, author of Medicine in Translation and Singular Intimacies Twelve Breaths a Minute—the latest collaboration between SMUPress and the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, with the support of theJewish Healthcare Foundation—features twenty-three original, compellingpersonal narratives that examine the way we as a society care for thedying. Here a poet, a former hospice worker, reflects on death'smysteries; a son wanders the halls of his mother's nursing home, lost inthe small absurdities of the place; a grief counselor struggles withlosing his own grandfather; a medical intern traces the origins of timeand the quality of our final days; a mother anguishes over her decisionto turn off her daughter's life support and allow her organs to beharvested; and an emergency dispatcher tries to quantify what astranger's death should mean. "This remarkable anthology collects the reflections of family members,nurses, physicians, and hospice workers as they care for thedying. Looking back on their experiences, they ponder what they did welland what they might have done differently or not done at all. Theydespair over flailing efforts to do something when that can only prolongmisery. Biomedical technology is sometimes a blessing and sometimes acurse, and never sufficient in itself. Readers, who will at some timebe in one or more of these caregiving roles, can learn important andvaluable information from these reflections."—Carol Donley, formerco-director of the Center for the Literature, Medicine, and the HealthCare Professions and co-author of Literature and Aging: An Anthology
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