Parting: A Handbook for Spiritual Care Near the End of Life - Softcover
An indispensable guidebook for family members and friends, hospice workers, religious leaders, counselors, and medical providers For end-of-life companions, Parting offers the collective wisdom of people from many cultures and faith traditions as a ""travel guide"" for helping a terminally ill relative or friend toward a peaceful transition from this life. Sections of the book discuss how to cross the bridge from ordinary conversation to spiritual reflection; how to provide comforts for the body, mind, and soul; and how to care for yourself while concentrating on the needs of another. Transcending any specific religion or culture, this handbook addresses universal spiritual needs that can be met through meaningful human relationships as well as individual faith. ''Why are we here? How can we understand and find meaning in suffering? What is death, and what happens after death? ... [This volume] serves as a practical guide to how people who are dying tend to approach these questions and how their friends and family may act as companions to accompany them on this final journey. '' Larry R. Churchill, from the Introduction
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About the Author:
JENNIFER SUTTON HOLDER is geriatrics chaplain at Baylor University Medical Center and serves as clergy in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. JANN ALDREDCE-CLANTON serves as chaplain coordinator for oncology at Baylor University Medical Center. She is author of Counseling People with Cancer.
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Published in conjunction with the Foundation for End-of-Life Care and the P.L. Dodge Foundation, this small guide by chaplains Holder and Aldredge-Clanton is directed to those friends and family members who serve as companions to someone facing the end of life. The manual is multifaith, offering wisdom from many different religious traditions about how to help the dying make a peaceful transition from this life. "It is possible, more often than people think, for death to be a spiritual blessing to those who are leaving as well as to those who are left behind," the authors note. They address concerns both practical (ethical wills, physical comfort) and spiritual (centering prayer, final rituals, initiating a spiritual conversation). Throughout, they encourage caregivers to cultivate characteristics that will be most comforting for the dying person, such as perspective, humility, reverence, gratitude and a sense of release.
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- PublisherFitzhenry & Whiteside
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1554550874
- ISBN 13 9781554550876
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages80
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