Radical Acts of Love
Subtitle: How We Find Hope at the End of Life
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781786899057
Subjects: Consolation; Personal memoirs
Description: 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.