Death and Dying
46 Articles & Excerpts
It's Time to Get in Line: Part 1
 Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
by Maggie Callanan, R.N., Patricia Kelley
Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients
Foreword
 Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
by Joan Halifax, Ph.D.
Being with dying is a phrase that aptly describes the human condition. We may be unique among species in being aware of our mortality. Although the capacity to contemplate death is an essential human trait, most people actively eschew thinking about how
The Unknown Guest
by Maurice Maeterlinck
My Essay on Death led me to make a conscientious enquiry into the present position of the great mystery, an enquiry which I have endeavoured to render as complete as possible. I had hoped that a single volume would be able to contain the result of these
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D.
Among the older writers startling movements of a corpse have given rise to much discussion, and possibly often led to suspicion of premature burial. Bartholinus describes motion in a cadaver.
The Conquest of Fear
by Basil King
After all, the conquest of fear is largely a question of vitality. Those who have most life are most fearless. The main question is as to the source from which an increase of life is to be obtained.
Palliative Care: Improving Quality of Life on the Way to Death
by National Institute of Health
Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life for patients near the end of their lives. It involves not only medications to relieve pain, but also a team approach to provide comfort and support that involves family, friends and health care providers
Chapter 1
 The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
by Ken Dornstein
In this stunning, emotionally charged memoir, Ken Dornstein interweaves the moving story of his own coming-of-age with the promise of greatness his brother never lived to fulfill. The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is a heartbreaking but profoundly hopeful
Paris
 My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life
by Howard Storm
Storm, an avowed atheist, was awaiting emergency surgery when he realized that he was at death's door. Storm found himself out of his own body, looking down on the hospital room scene below. Next, rather than going 'toward the light,' he found himself
Cancer: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
by National Cancer Institute
People cope with the loss of a loved one in many ways. For some, the experience may lead to personal growth, even though it is a difficult and trying time. There is no right way of coping with death.
Introduction, Part 2
 Morrie: In His Own Words
by Morrie Schwartz
Morrie made it to New York's tuition-free City College. Turned down for military service in World War II because of a punctured eardrum, he decided to apply to graduate school. He was torn between sociology and psychology.
Introduction
Morrie: In His Own Words
by Morrie Schwartz
His name: Morris Schwartz. 'But call me Morrie,' he insisted, even to Ted Koppel, who obliged on three Nightline specials in 1995, half-hour interviews which helped make this wise old man a national icon.
The Most Difficult Decision, Part 2
 Final Exit : The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
by Derek Humphry
If you are interested in the option of assisted dying at life's end, good rapport with your doctor is extremely useful. It is important that your doctor know your views on dying and death so that he or she is forewarned.
The Most Difficult Decision
Final Exit : The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
by Derek Humphry
This is the scenario: You are terminally ill, all medical treatments acceptable to you have been exhausted, and the suffering in its different forms is unbearable. Because the illness is serious, you recognize that your life is drawing to a close.
Regret and Denial
 The End Is Just the Beginning
by Arlene Churn, Ph.D.
My mother! She was my personal possession. I would never have another mother - only one biological mother per lifetime - and mine was gone, suddenly, at the age of fifty-six, the result of a medical mishap.
The First Night, Part 2
 Embraced by the Light
by Betty J. Eadie
I can still remember details of that first school building with its gigantic brick walls and dark, cold rooms. A chain-link fence separated the boys' dormitory from the girls', and another fence ran along the perimeter of the school.
The First Night
Embraced by the Light
by Betty J. Eadie
Something was wrong. My husband, Joe, had left my hospital room only a few minutes before, but already a foreboding feeling was enveloping me. I would be alone through the night, alone on the eve of one of my most frightening challenges.
Ecstatic Journeys
 Experiencing the Next World Now
by Michael Grosso, Ph.D.
The discovery of the worm in the apple of my existence led, as I said, to my waking up, a heightened savoring of life. And I felt driven to discover something More, something Greater.
Introduction
 The Empty Room
by Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
The movie The Big Chill begins with the death of a character you never meet, except for a few shots of his body being dressed for burial. As it turns out, this faceless individual is instrumental to the plot.
We Have No Language
 Finding Hope When a Child Dies
by Sukie Miller, Ph.D.
When your husband dies, you become a widow. When your wife dies, a widower. Children who lose their parents are called orphans. But we have no name for the parent who loses a child, nor for the brothers and sisters of a child who dies, nor for the others
Human Nature and the Heroic
 The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker, Ph.D.
In times such as ours there is a great pressure to come tip with concepts that help men understand their dilemma; there is an urge toward vital ideas, toward a simplification of needless intellectual complexity.
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