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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.

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Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying

We all sit on the edge of a mystery. We have only known this life, so dying scares us―and we are all dying.

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Ram Dass, Mirabai Bush
2018
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How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter (New Edition)

A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland’s How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.

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Sherwin B. Nuland
1995
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Mindfully Facing Disease and Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts

This book provides a practical guide for those facing disease and death by helping them to access the ageless wisdom of the Buddha’s teaching. Disease and death are undeniably integral parts of human life. Yet when they manifest we are easily caught unprepared.

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Bhikkhu Analayo
2017
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Departing with Dignity: A Hospice Guide to Symptom Management for Patients, Families and Caregivers

Facing the prospect of losing a loved one is agonizing. Feeling that you are facing this situation alone and not knowing what to expect can be terrifying. Hospice is here to help, not just your loved one, but you and all who will be assisting in their care.

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William R. Nesbitt, James McGregor
2019
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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Kübler-Ross’s famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr.

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Ira Byock
2014
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Facing Death: Finding Dignity, Hope and Healing at the End

Is it possible to have a good death, free from unnecessary pain and trauma? What if our final days were designed to bring about reconciliation and release? In this wise and large-hearted book, Dr. Jim deMaine offers advice pointing the way toward a grace-filled transition out of life.

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Jim deMaine
2020
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Ralph Metzner: Death

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Ralph Metzner
2011
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Poetry & the End of Life—Frank Ostaseski, Pioneering Hospice Founder and End of Life Educator

“Poetry and the End of Life” event on December 5, 2013. The end of a life is not solitary: it is our shared fate, a through-passing universally experienced, witnessed, and attended.

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Frank Ostaseski
2017
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Tara Brach and Frank Ostaseski: Heavenly Messengers

Tara interviews Frank Ostaseski, founder of Zen Hospice on a contemplative approach to death and dying.

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Tara Brach
2014
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Is There Life After Death?

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Sam Harris
2020
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