Final Chapters (eBook, ePUB)

Writings About the End of Life
Redaktion: Kirkpatrick, Roger

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The milkman cried when I told him you were dead.
'Last night,' I said, 'Mark died.'"

This collection brings together 30 short stories and poems about dying and bereavement. Written by mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, wives, husbands and dying people, these moving pieces talk honestly about how it feels to care for someone who is dying, to grieve for a loved one, and to face death oneself.

A candid story about a daughter's relationship with her mother's carer; an internal monologue on dementia; a deeply moving poem about losing a son to cot death; and a heartfelt story about a mother's end of life are some of the poignant pieces included. This collection provides an opportunity to think and talk about death and dying, too often a taboo subject, and offers readers the rare comfort and support of shared experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857008862
• Artikelnr.: 40171266

Autorenporträt

Edited by Roger Kirkpatrick

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Jonathan Dimbleby
Chair of Dimbleby Cancer Care. Introduction
Eve Richardson
Chief Executive
Dying Matters Coalition and the National Council for Palliative Care. Leave-taking
Helen Barnes. The Night Shift That Changed Me
Alexandra Obee. Swan
Brenda Read-Brown. Ava's Lovers
Claire Jones. The Milkman Cried
Josephine Howard. Journey's End
Sue Moorhouse. Hypocrisy
Sali Gray. An Ordinary Day
Kylie Joyce. Google Maps Saved My Life
Anneliese Mackintosh. Beneath The Bracken
Janette Ayachi. Coat Hanger
Adam Lound. Chubby Little Cheeks
Sarah Bakewell. Names Have Been Changed
Carole Mansur. Let Winter Come
Nick Jarvis. A Life Ascending
John Hunt. Polly Dolly
Maureen Gallagher. A Matter Of Compassion
Alva de Chiro. Enhancing Dementia Recipe
Janet Willoughby. The Patient That Changed Me
Faye Gishen. Regrets
Hope Uchio. A Dose Of Reality
Caroline Sposto. Closing Scenes
Gráinne Tobin. An Honourable Life
Christopher Owen. Of Glass
of Light
of Silver
Kit de Waal. The Mother Thief
Alison Wassell. The Grief Schism
David Mohan. Spoons
Pete Buckingham. The Waiting Room
Harriet Davies. Papier Maché Doll
Amanda Bowden. Baseball Cards
Leissa Shahrak. About the Authors.