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3 Things to Do for Pet Loss and Pet Grief | Animal Afterlife & Rainbow Bridge

2020

Has your pet recently passed to the Other Side? Do you feel guilt and regret around this? As an animal communicator (yes, that's pet psychic), I've had the opportunity to work intuitively with tens of thousands of animals in the animal afterlife. See more...

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Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

In this moving and compassionate classic—now updated with new material from the authors—hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years’ experience tending the terminally ill.

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Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley
2012
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.

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Atul Gawande
2017
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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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The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care

There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine—keeping patients alive at any price. Two-thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions, tethered to machines and tubes at bankrupting costs, even though research shows that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. Dr.

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Angelo E. Volandes
2016
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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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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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Living with the Dying

Frank Ostaseski is a tall, slim man with blue eyes that radiate calm. As director of the San Francisco Zen Center’s Hospice Program, he counsels the dying and their families, and teaches others to care for people with terminal illness.

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Kim Addonizio
1989
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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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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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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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