Companions for the passage
Companions for the passage: stories of the intimate privilege of accompanying the dying Marjorie Ryerson
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2005.
ISBN: 0472030787
DDC: 155.9370922
Edition: (pbk.)
Summary:
"Companions for the Passage, from the author of the acclaimed Water
Music, is an unforgettable book on a rarely visited subject: the
personal stories of those who have witnessed the death of a loved
one. Similar to works of Studs Terkel, author Marjorie Ryerson's
interviews capture the human condition through their wide variety of
experiences and voices." "Some of the interviewees are religious,
some not; some encouraged their loved ones to accept death, others to
fight it to the end. There are stories of heroic nurses and of
indifferent hospital bureaucracies, of deaths that came too soon, and
those that came at the end of a long, rich life. Possessing an
affirmative quality that is anything but sentimental, ultimately
these stories celebrate the experience of being present at the death
of a loved one."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Foreword / Thomas Moore -- Marlene Petrucci -- Donald Hall -- Julie
Morton -- Tim Palmer -- Letha E. Mills, M.D. -- Anita F. Bonna -- Amy
Silverberg -- Ann Schauffler -- Archer Mayor -- Margaret Robinson --
Frances M. VanDaGriff -- Diane D. Guerino -- Ira Byock, M.D.
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