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ABOUT DIANE BURNSIDE MURDOCK'S THE NEW ART OF DYING How would you
like to die? Only you can answer this. Whatever your age, cultural
identity, ethnic background, or beliefs, read this book if you want
to talk about dying but don't know what you want to say. Each of us
has our own special feelings, hopes, fears, and desires about this
universal issue. These days, dying can happen in many different
ways because of high-intensity therapies that prolong living and
postpone dying. The proliferation of choices, possibilities, and
alternatives can be overwhelming. The New Art of Dying is a
constructive and thorough guide to empower you to make your own
choices. There is no one answer for dying correctly. There's no
wrong answer either. Each of us wants to get it right and do it our
own way. The New Art Of Dying is a handbook for our time. This
step-by-step guide to making your own choices teaches: - How to
discover who you are and live life to its end - How to deal with
dying in your own unique way - How to make decisions about
life-sustaining treatments and procedures, palliative care, and
legal documents on advance care planning - How to keep
unpredictable problems from upsetting what you want - How to give
loved ones the gift of caring for you the way you wish It is
progressive about patient rights, making you the central figure and
enabling you to experience dying the way you have experienced life-
by being in charge of your own destiny. It's for you only, a
continuing reference and source of inspiration. An expose on the
American way of dying - penetrating and passionate...it speaks the
truth. Scrupulously confronting the many options to choose from
whether medical, palliative or legal - the problems we face and
what can go wrong. Revelatory, helping you get at your attitudes on
dying coming from your background and beliefs to create a personal
end-of-life experience.
Having a rare blood type, after a 20 year wait for a successful
transplant, transplant survivor, author David Fraser Wright learned
that having a sense of humor about medicine and medical situations
is as important as the technical knowledge and loving care one
receives along the way.
Death studies have, over the last twenty years, witnessed a
flourishing of research and scholarship particularly in areas such
as dying and bereavement, cultural practices and fear of dying.
But, despite its importance, a specific focus on the nature of
personal mortality has attracted surprisingly little attention.
Reflecting on the Inevitable combines evidence from several
disciplinary fields to explore the varying ways each of us engages
with the prospect of personal mortality. Chapters are organized
around the question of how an ongoing relationship might be
possible when the threat of consciousness coming to an end points
to an unspeakable nothingness. The book then argues that, despite
this threat, an ongoing relationship with one's own death is still
possible by means of conceptual devices, or 'enabling frames', that
help shape personal mortality into a relatable object. In each
chapter the subtleties and applicability of key ideas are enhanced
through a series of illustrative narratives built up around the
lives of four people at different ages living in two adjacent
houses. Reflecting on the Inevitable is relevant not only to
academics of death studies, but also those training and practicing
in people-helping professions, as well as anyone experiencing or
attempting to make sense of major life events.
Hospices have played a critical role in transforming ideas about
death and dying. Viewing death as a natural event, hospices seek to
enable people approaching mortality to live as fully and painlessly
as possible. Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides
insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of
hospice care. Using a unique set of records, Prelude to Hospice
expands our understanding of the history of U.S. hospices. Compiled
largely by Florence Wald, the founder of the first U.S. hospice,
the records provide a detailed account of her experiences studying
and caring for dying people and their families in the late 1960s
and early 1970s. Although Wald never published a report of her
findings, she often presented her material informally. Like many
others seeking to found new institutions, she believed she could
garner support only by demonstrating that her facility would be
superior in every respect to what currently existed. As a result,
she generated inflated expectations about what a hospice could
accomplish. Wald's records enable us to glimpse the complexities of
the work of tending to dying people.
Die meisten Menschen in Deutschland sterben in Institutionen wie
Krankenhausern oder Pflegeheimen, wo die Personalsituation oft
angespannt ist. Damit Patienten und Bewohner in Wurde und
Geborgenheit ihr Lebensende erleben konnen, unterstutzen zahlreiche
ehrenamtliche Sterbebegleiter/-innen die hauptamtlich Tatigen. Die
Ehrenamtlichen bringen durch ihre Zeit, Zuwendung, Aufmerksamkeit,
Ruhe, Gelassenheit und Offenheit Erleichterung in den Alltag und
speziell in die Situation Sterbender.Dieses Handbuch bereitet auf
die ehrenamtliche Sterbebegleitung professionell vor. Dabei steht
die Entwicklung einer inneren Haltung der Achtsamkeit und
Wertschatzung sterbenden Menschen und ihren Angehorigen gegenuber
im Mittelpunkt. In der Auseinandersetzung mit eigenen Verlusten und
dem Sterben lernen die Kursteilnehmerinnen und -teilnehmer, die
Bedurfnisse von Menschen in ihrer letzten Lebensphase sensibel
wahrzunehmen und die Beziehung zu ihnen individuell und angemessen
zu gestalten. Themen sind: eigene Abschieds- und Grenzerfahrungen,
Schulung der Wahrnehmung, Kommunikation mit schwersterkrankten
Menschen/Gesprachsfuhrung, Trauer, eigene Motivation fur den
Dienst, Psychohygiene. Dieses Handbuch Ehrenamtliche
Sterbebegleitung umfasst neben einer Einfuhrung in die einzelnen
thematischen Bereiche zahlreiche Ubungsmodule mit genauen
Beschreibungen.
Since the efforts of Dame Cicely Saunders and the founders of the
modern hospice movement, compassion has become a fundamental part
of palliative care. In this ground-breaking book, international
experts give their critical thoughts on the essence and role of
compassion, in both palliative and hospice care over the past
half-century. Compassion: The essence of palliative and end-of-life
care provides insight into the motivations for, and practice of,
compassionate palliative and hospice care, featuring the
reflections of leading healthcare professionals, social workers,
chaplains and educators. Chapters utilise case examples and
first-hand experiences to explore the historical and contemporary
discourse surrounding the concept of compassion in palliative
medicine. This book is relevant to a multidisciplinary audience of
palliative care practitioners, including undergraduate and graduate
students in sociology, psychology and theology, and healthcare
professionals in oncology and gerontology.
About her career as a Hospice Nurse and her book, Margaret Dodson
says: I have been honored to share in the living, dying, and deaths
of the most extraordinary "ordinary" people. I have entered into
lives months away from their dying and moments away from their
dying. Each person I have met in this work has been etched into my
heart; how could I help but be touched by them? I realized that I
needed to go away for a few days with a list of the people and
families I had cared for during the year, and I needed time to
spend my "last visit" with them privately to say goodbye. As I sat
looking at the sea and feeling so full of these stories, they began
to pour from me onto these pages. I would look at a name and I was
transported not only to that person but also to that family, their
home, the conversations, the intimacies, the suffering, the peace
and even the joy. It would be presumptuous to say I have become
wise by these experiences, but my gratitude for this enrichment is
boundless. Much of the time I do not feel wise; yet, as the years
have passed and the stories accumulate, I do feel as though I have
acquired lessons to share. The lessons Margaret has learned are
this book.
With an 'Attitude of Gratitude', author David Fraser Wright
survived a 20 year wait for a liver transplant. He has selected
ideas, artwork, and reactions to events, over that time, and
presents them to you, from a year by year compilation - with the
most inspirational one from each year, followed by an idea guide
for 'What's Next?'.
"We as the American hospices are not sent to help the poor African
hospices, but to deepen relationships with them, to assess needs
and to discover how they function. We can share our knowledge with
them, and they in turn can share their knowledge and insight with
us." Hospice and Palliative Care is a new concept in Africa, and is
established, funded and carried out in different ways than American
hospices. The author's 3-pronged purpose in writing this book is
to: 1) Approach hospice care from a missional point of view, 2)
Share the importance of compassionate, faith-based end-of-life
care, and 3) Understand and appreciate Zambia's challenges of
hospice and palliative care.
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