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Hospice & grief

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A Companion for the Hospice Journey: Thoughts on Life’s Tough Decisions

Any discussion about hospice includes the words most prefer to avoid or ignore: dying, death, and grief. In A Companion for the Hospice Journey, readers are invited into that uncomfortable subject. Nearly half of the deaths in the United States (in 2017, over 2.

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Larry Patten
2019
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The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life. Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road.

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Frank Ostaseski, Rachel Naomi Remen (foreword)
2019
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Frank Ostaseski: The Five Invitations—What Death Can Teach Us About Living

TNS Host Steve Heilig for a conversation with Frank Ostaseski—Buddhist teacher, international lecturer, and a leading voice in contemplative end-of-life care—about his new book: The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully.

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Frank Ostaseski
2017
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The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America

Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. When Ann Neumann’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Ann Neumann
2017
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What Death Teaches About Life: An Interview with Frank Ostaseski

Frank Ostaseski, an internationally respected Buddhist teacher and pioneer in end-of-life care, has accompanied over 1,000 people through their dying process.

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Jenn Brown
2019
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Letting Go as a Caregiver

When I heard the word hospice, I lost my footing when I experienced a STUG (Sudden Temporary Upsurge of Grief). Since then, I've had time to process and accept that mom's prognosis is much shorter than expected. It took several shower weeping sessions to get me here.

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2020
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The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own “good death” more likely.

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Katy Butler
2020
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With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

Dr. Kathryn Mannix has studied and practiced palliative care for thirty years.

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Kathryn Mannix
2018
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Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss

When former Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts’ husband, State Senator Frank Roberts, was dying from lung cancer, she had to look inside of herself as well as beyond herself to find ways to survive what felt unbearable.

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Barbara K. Roberts
2016
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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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