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Title: Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life by Ira, M.D. Byock ISBN: 1-57322-657-2 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dr. Byock's book is a must read for every family
Comment: As a Lutheran minister, author (Project 314), and long-time Hospice spiritual care volunteer, I can heartily recommend Dying Well. Dr. Byock's stories of patients at the end-of-life is a must-read for all families. It informs the reader of the challenges and opportunities that face the patient and caregiver, and of the role of the Hospice organization. His book also challenges all of us who work with Hospice families to do our best.
Rating: 4
Summary: Comforting the Dying, Enriching the Living
Comment: This book is one of those rare works that combines passionate engagement with a universal issue, artful storytelling, and clinical expertise. The author allows each of the patients he describes to bless him, and thereby to bless the reader. Dying, the author argues, is not simply a holding pattern between life and death. It is a vital developmental time that holds infinite possiblities for deepening, learning to love, serving one another both as caregiver and receiver of care, and simply learning to "be" after what often has been a lifetime of mechanistic "doing." Such possibility is created when simple principles of Hospice are honored. Pain must be absolutely controlled. The patient (and the family) must be tenderly companioned. Such care, the author convinces us, is a privilege, a holy time in which human beings gather together in the face of Mystery in all of its agony and joy and wonder and transcendent meaning. We can only create human community, the author suggests, when we are willing to simultaneously look death in the face and to remain open to the gift of healing. I closed the book more alive, more thankful, less fearful, and more curious about the prospect of the adventures ahead.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sensitive presentation
Comment: Anyone who is or could be a caregiver or patient needs to read this book. A good death is indeed an achievable goal but it is one that requires the active assistance of patient and family if it is to be achieved in this day and age. The medical community does not take the time to present the required information that people need to make informed decisions. This book does the job for them.
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Title: Final Gifts : Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying by MAGGIE CALLANAN, PATRICIA KELLEY ISBN: 0553378767 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 03 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Needs of the Dying : A Guide For Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter by David Kessler ISBN: 0060958219 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness by Joanne, Md Lynn, Joan, Md Harrold, Rosalynn Carter, Joan K. Harrold ISBN: 0195146018 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life by David, MD Kuhl ISBN: 1586481193 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Four Things That Matter Most : A Book About Living by Ira Byock ISBN: 0743249097 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 08 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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