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Dying with Ease: A Compassionate Guide for Making Wiser End-of-Life Decisions
Death may be inevitable, but fearing the end-of-life is avoidable. Learn how to put your fear of your final days to rest.
We all know we are going to die, but live as though we don’t believe it. Rather than explore our options and consider the possibilities that can impact our final days, we ignore the idea altogether out of fear. By avoiding the topic of death, we increase the pain and grief we experience at the end of life, and the suffering of those left behind.
After three decades of caring for the dying, Dr. Jeff Spiess argues that if we honestly face our mortality, we will make wiser decisions, die with less distress, and live the remainder of our lives, whether days or decades, more fully and with less anxiety. Using cultural and religious references alongside poignant narratives, this optimistic work informs, inspires, and challenges our cognitive and emotional understandings of our own lives and deaths.
Dying with Ease contains the practical nuts and bolts information about advance care planning, hospice, palliative care, and ethical and legal issues surrounding dying in America. Dr. Spiess answers such questions
While dying can be difficult, it can also be beautiful. By learning to relax in the face of death at our current stage of life, we can make wiser and more authentic decisions throughout the rest of our lives-- however long they may be.
We all know we are going to die, but live as though we don’t believe it. Rather than explore our options and consider the possibilities that can impact our final days, we ignore the idea altogether out of fear. By avoiding the topic of death, we increase the pain and grief we experience at the end of life, and the suffering of those left behind.
After three decades of caring for the dying, Dr. Jeff Spiess argues that if we honestly face our mortality, we will make wiser decisions, die with less distress, and live the remainder of our lives, whether days or decades, more fully and with less anxiety. Using cultural and religious references alongside poignant narratives, this optimistic work informs, inspires, and challenges our cognitive and emotional understandings of our own lives and deaths.
Dying with Ease contains the practical nuts and bolts information about advance care planning, hospice, palliative care, and ethical and legal issues surrounding dying in America. Dr. Spiess answers such questions
While dying can be difficult, it can also be beautiful. By learning to relax in the face of death at our current stage of life, we can make wiser and more authentic decisions throughout the rest of our lives-- however long they may be.
204 pages, Hardcover
Published October 11, 2020
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September 23, 2020
This book is written by a Hospice physician and is intended to help one understand their future death especially those who have a terminal illness.
It is a very good "first book" for a dying person or their friend, spouse or relative to read. There is much discussion about experiences with his patients and what he has learned from them and that makes it a very human book and will give the reader some terrific insight to his or her own feelings.
It does have discussions about hospice, palliative care and end of life wishes and I highly recommend the reader read that thoroughly. There are a great number of myths surrounding hospice, and medicines at the end of life and I believe he has done a nice job of clarifying what hospice is and does as well as a discussion about medications.
It is a very good "first book" for a dying person or their friend, spouse or relative to read. There is much discussion about experiences with his patients and what he has learned from them and that makes it a very human book and will give the reader some terrific insight to his or her own feelings.
It does have discussions about hospice, palliative care and end of life wishes and I highly recommend the reader read that thoroughly. There are a great number of myths surrounding hospice, and medicines at the end of life and I believe he has done a nice job of clarifying what hospice is and does as well as a discussion about medications.
December 16, 2020
Highly recommend this book. It has very valuable information about advance directives and other paperwork and hospice as well as what we should expect when dealing with a terminal illness.
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