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It is an incredible privilege to be with someone who is making this journey into the eternal world. When you are present at the sacrament of someone’s death, you should be very mindful of their situation. In other words, you should not concentrate so much on your own grief. You should rather strive to be fully present to, with and for the person
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
If this book serves no other purpose but to sensitize family members of terminally ill patients and hospital personnel to the implicit communications of dying patients, then it has fulfilled its task.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross • On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
For some of us the fear of death manifests onlyindirectly, either as generalized unrest or masqueraded as another psychological symptom; other individuals experience an explicit and conscious stream of anxiety about death; and for some of us the fear of death erupts into terror that negates all happiness and fulfillment.
Irvin D. Yalom • Staring at the Sun
Deathbed transformations, though not unheard of, are rare. Respect for the dying requires letting them be who they are, and accepting them unconditionally.
Anita Diamant • Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew
She thinks of Dexter, sheltering from the rain on the steps of the new house, looking at his watch, impatient; he'll wonder where I am, she thinks. He'll worry. Then Emma Mayhew dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever."
One Day
Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.
Joan Didion • The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International)
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His death opened a door that I no longer had the energy to walk through.
Jackie Ess • Darryl
began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything.