Title: Radical acts of love : how we find hope at the end of life /
Authors: Brown, Janie
Year: 2020
Subjects: Death Psychological aspects; Terminally ill Anecdotes.; Terminally ill Psychology; Terminally ill Family relationships Anecdotes.; Cancer Patients Anecdotes.; Cancer Patients; Death Psychological aspects; Terminally ill; Terminally ill Family relationships; Terminally ill Psychology
Abstract: In Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse of thirty years and counsellor of cancer patients with terminal diagnoses, recounts twenty conversations she has had with the dying; including those personally close to her. Each conversation uncovers a different perspective and experience of death, while at the same time exploring its universalities. As well as offering an extremely sensitive and wise insight into our final moments, Brown offers practical ways to facilitate the shift from feeling helpless about death to feeling hopeful; from fear to acceptance; from feeling disconnected and alone, to becoming part of the wider, collective story of our mortality.
Contents: Opening the heart to dying -- Accepting the unresolved heart -- Healing the troubled heart -- Surrendering to the spacious heart.