Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care Books
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Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and their caregivers striving together to maintain comfort and hope in the face of incurable illness. The narratives weave together emotions, corporal symptoms, spiritual concerns, and the stresses of family life, as well as the professional and private challenges of providing rest home and palliative care. Based on a vast quantity of participant-observation and in-depth interviews, It captures the breathtaking diversity of peoples aspirations and ideals as they face death and the views of the professionals who care for them.
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This is such an vital book that it is required reading in my Introduction to Death and Dying course. It has valuable in rank, yet it is verty readable. It is presented as a very human book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Dr. Attig’s book is an vital part of a paradigm budge in our thought about grief. He has thrown open a door to new thought about how we can continue to be in relationship to loved ones who are no longer alive. This book is eloguently written with the ring of truth from the lives of real people. An brilliant addition to our knowlege and understanding of grief.
Rating: 5 / 5
“When people die, they’re gone. There’s nothing to do but get over it and go on.” This widespread myth of our culture is fake. We can remember. We can celebrate joys. We can sense for what sharing life has taught us. We can take inspiration from the power the deceased’s spirit. We can be grateful for the dimensions of our souls that have been enlivened by times together. And not only can we do these things. We shall be the better for reverence the myriad of ways in which the deceased has enriched our lives. That’s what I get from Attig’s book. Only he makes all this very real for his reader with wonderful tales that give vitality and substance to these thoughts. I reckon anyone who grieves the loss of someone treasured will gain solace and insight from this wonderful book.
Rating: 5 / 5
For those who have read Attig’s How We Grieve, this makes a wonderful followup to “relearning the world.” Not only do we, in the grieving administer, relearn our world to survive our loss, but in this sensitive, well written book we find that there are many ways to continue our relationship with the loved one, through memories, longlasting like, rituals and yes, even through “ghostly” encounters. There is a wonderful discussion of soul and spirit and the connections made in soulful and spiritual ways that will fascinate to any and all regardless of religious views or beliefs. Attig speaks from the heart as he tells wonderful tales that we can relate to in our own circumstances; he describes how we grieve, not only as a administer, but how we grieve from the heart, maintaining connection with the loved one(s) as we get on with our own lives. A most helpful book to those who are grieving, and to those who want to prepare for the grief times that will come into their lives.
Rating: 5 / 5
Dr. Thomas Attig’s book, “The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Like,” is an exceptional follow-up to his first book about grieving, “How We Grieve: Relearning the World.” Each chapter of “Heart of Grief” starts with a real life situation involving the death of a person and the consequences of that death on those who are still living. His premise is that people who have passed away can still be an vital and essential part of one’s life. You don’t have to get on with your life without them; you can get on with your life with them. Although there is an element of `advice’ giving in “Heart of Grief,” the book is much more tale-telling. It’s like a excellent novel-you can read it for the dramatization of some essential human truths. I urge it highly.
Rating: 5 / 5