Intimate Death How the Dying Teach Us How to Live

Name: Intimate Death How the Dying Teach Us How to Live
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ISBN: 9780679768593

ISBN-10: 0679768599

ISBN-13: 9780679768593

Edition: 1997

Authors: Marie de Hennezel, Carol B. Janeway

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How do we learn to die? Most of us spend our lives avoiding that question, but this luminous book--a major best-seller in France--answers it with a directness and eloquence that are nothing less than transforming. As a psychologist in a hospital for the terminally ill in Paris, Marie de Hennezel has spent seven years tending to people who are relinquishing their hold on life. She tells the stories of her patients and their families. de Hennezel teaches us how to turn death--our loved ones' or our own--from something lonely and agonizing into a sacred passage. She discusses the importance of an honest reckoning, the value of ritual, the necessity of touch. In imparting these lessons,…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748

J. V. Jones was born in Liverpool in 1963. When she was twenty she began working in the music industry. She later moved to San Diego, California. She currently lives in Rancho La Costa, California. She is the author of both the Book of Words series and the Sword of Shadows series.