Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us to Live

ISBN-10
0349114366
ISBN-13
9780349114361
Series
Intimate Death
Category
Death
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2002-02
Publisher
Abacus
Author
Marie De Hennezel

Description

Marie de Hennezel is a psychologist who works as part of a team of doctors and nurses in a hospital for the terminally ill in Paris. The men and women who come there do not always know that they are dying. It is Marie de Hennezel's aim to bring them - and their loved ones - to this knowledge, and then to encourage them to live each day that remains as fully and serenely as possible. This work seeks to show how precious the final days of a person's life can be, and how deeply moving it is to share these moments with someone else. It gives hope and celebrates the courage of the human spirit.

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