(Read free ebook) Signs of Life:: A Memoir of Dying and Discovery
• Tim Brookes •
| #3491156 in Books | Times Books | 1997-02-25 | 1997-02-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x6.25 x1.00l, | File Name: 0812924681 | 269 pages |
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| An uplifting book on a difficult subject|By Kathleen Merk|When my grandmother was diagnosed terminally ill(suffering from COPD), the family chose hospice care instead of a nursing home. I went to the library to get a book on hospice and this is the book that carried me through the heartbreaking yet beautiful last week of my beloved Nany's life. I know that every dying exper|.com |When National Public Radio commentator Tim Brookes set out to write a book about the hospice movement, he assumed it would be a straight-forward task. But shortly after signing his book contract, Brookes received a letter from his mother in England, stoi
"For a nation obsessed with the happy ending, we give remarkably little thought to our own," writes journalist Tim Brookes. "Our fictions are full of the desire to shape these final mythic moments -- the good dying peacefully, or tragically, the bad falling from a great height onto sharp objects, the death perfectly or ironically illustrating the quality and virtue of the life. Yet in real life we'll do anything to avoid even mentioning death, let alone anticipating it....
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Signs of Life:: A Memoir of Dying and Discovery | Tim Brookes. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
