Nancy MacMillan

The Call to the Far Shore

Carrying Our Loved Ones Through Dying, Death, and Beyond

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How to care for the dying for their healing, ours, and the world’s

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9798888501092
• Artikelnr.: 71891347

Autorenporträt

Nancy MacMillan is a registered psychotherapist and retired certified spiritual care practitioner with master’s degrees in education and theology and experience working in palliative care, intensive care, geriatrics, and bereavement. She lives outside of Kingston, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Robert Sardello
Preface: Reimagining Death
1
Mum’s Breathing Has Changed
I do not see my mum suffering; I see her dying—The tension between
prolonged living and prolonged dying
2
Scenes from Frontline Health Care
Listening as medicine—Become a safe container for your child—The morgue
visit—The geriatric unit—What death looks like
3
Maybe Even Joyous
Dying with awareness—Finding the balance between pain and
consciousness—Other ways to work with pain and fear—Talking to Mum about
bringing her body home after death—Giving my mother space to die
4
The Long Decline and the Hard Conversation
My mum’s many moves—Decline into dementia—Become a nonanxious
presence—Advance care planning for the elderly—The transition to long-term
care—Siblings
5
It’s a Multigenerational Story
Gathering the stories of our elders—We are all matryoshka dolls
6
The Deepest Dive
My close encounters with death—Cancer as a force in the world—Fear—Medical
treatment, complementary treatments— You are never alone—What do you want
to be alive for?
7
A Different Kind of Medicine:
The Mythopoetic Story of Inanna
Playing chess with the devil—Inanna, our guide through the dark
unknown—Descent, death, feeding the corpse, resurrection—To die before you
die—Greek mysteries of Eleusis and psychotropic plant medicine
8
Becoming an Ancestor
Tracing back our roots—Who are your people?—A Celtic past—Awakeningm to our
ancestors, descendants, and the unborn—Intergenerational trauma
9
Continuing Our Connection beyond the Last Breath
Dad’s story—The angel of death—Building a bridge to the dead
10
Grief, Communion, and a New Conversation
Speaking intimately in our dying days—The continuing bond—Complex
grief—Building a big-enough story—A distilled essence—Animal death—World
grief and a new conversation with Earth
11
The Spiritual Road to Ars Moriendi
Heart and soul—Searching for more than a trickle of spirit—A short story of
Christianity and Gnosticism—We all pray to something—Buddhist instructions
for dying—Ars moriendi: Learn to die and you shall live—Rudolf Steiner: The
dead are always with us
12
The Dying Time
Back to Mum—When stars collide—Letting go of control—Mum’s dying
days—Behind our dreams
13
Look, the Sun Just Came Out
Keening as lament and grief as praise—Why am I still here?—Mother Mary and
the divine feminine—The sun just came out—Excavating childhood and building
a fuller story
14
A Ripe Completion
Shedding layers to die—The measure of building character—All is forgiven—A
reckoning conversation with Dad—Purpose in being old
15
A Good Death?
Allison’s story—No one way for a good death—Caring presence at a
distance—Taking our cue from elephants—Indigenous children and unmarked
graves—Down into the womb to be born again
16
Building a Little Ship for Your Dead
Principles of green burial—Becoming earth—Closing Time death group—Day of
the Dead—Hungry ghosts—Singing for the dying
17
Bringing Mum Home
Jittery nerves—Get the casket now—Letting slow prevail—Developing a
relationship with the local funeral home—Caring for a loved one’s body at
home—My death care team
18
Practicalities and Mysteries
Excarnating as a process—The life review—Keeping Mum’s body cool—Navigating
sisterly differences—Vigiling and visitations—
Ragged moments—Should the grandchildren come all that way?
19
To Carry Our Dead
Ritual—Funeral service and celebration—The last goodbye
Postscript: There’s Always Grace
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Resources