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Only Love Remains - Lessons from the Dying on the Meaning of Life - Euthanasia or Palliative Care? (Paperback)
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Only Love Remains - Lessons from the Dying on the Meaning of Life - Euthanasia or Palliative Care? (Paperback)
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Loot Price R490
Discovery Miles 4 900
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What happens to the dying in the final days and weeks of their
lives? What emotions come to the surface and what do they want to
talk about? Attilio Stajano, a volunteer worker at the palliative
care ward of a Brussels hospital, presents a series of
deeply-moving personal encounters with seriously-ill patients. The
dying, he discovers, have much to teach the living. Whilst their
stories are all different, they share one thing in common: in the
end, when all is said and done, only love remains...How should we
respond to the challenge of death? As a society and as individuals,
we can choose to be patient and sensitive, giving dignity to those
reaching the end of their lives - even when those lives appear to
have no further value. The period leading to death can be full of
profound experiences, telling us much about the meaning of life and
the abiding nature of love. If we see the terminally-ill as an
inconvenience, however, we forego the possibility of finding
unexpected resources in ourselves: a tenderness, a touch, a
readiness to assist that we did not know we were capable of.
Underlying this book is the momentous and very current debate over
euthanasia. In a comprehensive appendix, the author reports on the
provision of palliative care services and the laws governing
euthanasia in European and English-speaking countries around the
world, and the implications these have for the way we value and
care for the dying.
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