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When Is the Right Time for Hospice Care?

By John F. Wasik — 2018

Hospice is less about what we think modern medicine should do and more about finding a small sense of serenity in one’s final moments.

Read on www.forbes.com

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Gangaji: Facing Death

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Gangaji
2011
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Being with Dying

This is a phenomenal short giving us a glimpse of the Contemplative End of Live Care retreat for which Roshi Joan Halifax and Upaya are famous.

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Joan Halifax
2007
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Joan Halifax: Compassion and the True Meaning of Empathy

Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she's learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into the nature of empathy.

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Joan Halifax
2011
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Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life

Joseph Ratzinger's Eschatology is seen as a leading text on the "last things"―heaven and hell, purgatory and judgment, death and the immortality of the soul.

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Joseph Ratzinger
2007
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Physics of the Soul: The Quantum Book of Living, Dying, Reincarnation, and Immortality

At last, science and the soul shake hands. Writing in a style that is both lucid and charming, mischievous and profound, Dr. Amit Goswami uses the language and concepts of quantum physics to explore and scientifically prove metaphysical theories of reincarnation and immortality.

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Amit Goswami
2013
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Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life’s End

Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming.

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Christopher Kerr, Carine Mardorossian
2020
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Reincarnation Beliefs of North American Indians: Soul Journeys, Metamorphosis, and Near Death Experiences

This very interesting volume is a compilation of reincarnation beliefs, experiences, movements, and stories among North American Indians, including near-death experiences, soul travel, and metamorphoses.

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Warren Jefferson
2009
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On Life After Death

As a pioneer of the hospice movement, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was one of the first scholars to frankly discuss our relationship with death. By introducing the concept of the five stages of dying, her work has informed the lives of countless people as they face the grieving process.

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Caroline Myss
2025
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A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

“There is nothing wrong with you for dying,” hospice physician B.J. Miller and journalist and caregiver Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner’s Guide to the End. “Our ultimate purpose here isn’t so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do.

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BJ Miller, Shoshana Berger
2020
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The Denial of Death

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the “why” of human existence.

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Ernest Becker
1997
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