Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and CoIn this moving and compassionate classic, 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—now updated with new material from the authors. 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 responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end. |
Contents
BEGINNINGS | |
REACTIONS TO DEATH | |
WHERES THE MAP? | |
PREPARING FOR TRAVEL OR CHANGEIM GETTING READY ΤΟ | |
BEING IN THE PRESENCE OF SOMEONE NOT ALIVE IM | |
SEEING A PLACE I SEE WHERE IM GOING | |
KNOWING WHEN DEATH WILL OCCUR IT WILL BE WHEN | |
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