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...
Marie de Hennezel is a gifted psychologist who works as part of a remarkable team of doctors and nurses in a hospital for the terminally ill in Paris. The men...
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.
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.
Intimate Death