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1) Care to Die
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When an old man is murdered at a Scottish Highlands nature reserve, DI Jim Carruthers investigates a web of deadly secrets reaching decades into the past. While struggling to help his grieving colleague, Sergeant Andrea Fletcher, Detective Inspector Jim Carruthers is thrown into another troubling murder case. The body of an old man was discovered stabbed to death in a nature reserve-a ball of cloth rammed into the back of his throat. The only suspect...
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Bloodhound Books
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[2020]
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"GET THE COMPLETE BESTSELLING INSPECTOR JIM CARRUTHERS SERIES IN THIS GREAT VALUE BOXSET. THERE ARE FIVE UNMISSABLE CRIME THRILLERS TO BINGE ON IN THIS GRIPPING AND ATMOSPHERIC SERIES. Praise for Tana Collins: "Each story is filled with intrigue, twists and turns." "Superb reads with clever and well thought out plots." "Brilliantly fast-paced reads." "Would recommend to anybody who enjoys a good detective story." "Gripping reads from start to finish."...
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Oftentimes caregivers, friends, and family are unsure of what to say and what to do to comfort the sick and the dying. Midwife for Souls provides specific Catholic insight and highlights the power of prayer as a guide. This bestselling book has been revised to include a new section of inspiring stories and lessons learned in hospice ministry.
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This wise and practical handbook, written by a palliative care physician and a priest with experience in hospice ministry, addresses the needs of the dying, their relatives and friends, and also those who provide support and care.
Recognizing that these needs are physical, emotional, and spiritual, Care for the Dying draws on insights from current best practice in palliative care, pastoral experience, and theological reflection. It explores the following:
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Hormongesteuert? Klar!
In der Lebensmitte bringen uns Östrogene, Progesteron und Co. ganz schön aus dem Takt - und viel zu oft wird dieses Ungleichgewicht nicht richtig diagnostiziert, geschweige denn behandelt. Dabei stellen sich Hormonveränderungen bereits mit Anfang 40 ein, wenn die Periode meist noch treue Begleiterin ist. In dieser Perimenopause können depressive Verstimmungen, Gewichtszunahme und andere Symptome das Leben schwer machen,...
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Let one of America's foremost liturgical scholars lead you to a deeper understanding of Catholic beliefs about mortality. If you are a pastor, or if someone in your life is sick or dying, this powerful course is for you. Over the course of our lives, we all mourn the losses of loved ones. We all, at the end, confront death. Despite its certainty, many regard mortality with fear and try to avoid these events. The Catholic Church instead faces this...
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What do faithful living and faithful dying mean as we near life's end? With all the technology and choices available to us today, making decisions about the end of life grows ever more difficult. As a result of all the theological and ethical issues that have arisen around the dying process in recent years, the 72nd General Convention of the Episcopal Church created a task force to study and report on these concerns. This is the report of the End-of-Life...
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The story of the end-of-life experience of a palliative care physician who helped thousands of patients to die well. We all die. Most of us spend the majority of our lives ignoring this uncomfortable truth, but Dr. Larry Librach dedicated his life and his career to helping his patients navigate their final journey. Then, in April 2013, Larry was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Unlike the majority of us, Larry knew the death he wanted. He...
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What do you say to someone who is dying? How do you provide spiritual care for the terminally ill and help them make a peaceful transition? These and other questions are answered in 'It is Well with My Soul'. This book is an excellent resource for pastors, chaplains, physicians, hospice clinicians, nurses, social workers, home health aides, grief counselors, geriatric workers, volunteers, caregivers and everyone who cares for the dying.
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Based on Dr. Wolfelt's unique and highly regarded philosophy of "companioning" versus treating mourners, this self-care guide for professional and lay grief caregivers emphasizes the importance of taking good care of oneself as a precursor to taking good care of others. Bereavement care is draining work, and remaining empathetic to the painful struggles of mourners, death, and dying, day in and day out, makes caregivers highly susceptible to burnout....
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Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth doulas and helps the dying to find meaning in their life, express that meaning in powerful and beautiful legacies, and plan for the final days. The approach...
14) Der Zimmermann: Love, Serve, Care - die drei Prinzipien einer außergewöhnlichen Erfolgsstrategie
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Michael wacht in einem Krankenhaus auf, mit einer Bandage um seinen Kopf und Angst im Herzen. Der Stress ein wachsendes Unternehmen zusammen mit seiner Frau Sarah aufzubauen, hatte einen Kollaps bei seiner morgendlichen Joggingrunde ausgelöst. Als Michael erfährt, dass der Mann, der ihn rettete, ein Zimmermann ist, besucht er ihn und erfährt schnell, dass dieser Mann viel mehr ist. Er baut nicht nur Möbel, sondern erschafft und beeinflusst auch...
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William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co
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2009.
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Living Well and Dying Faithfully explores how Christian practices -- love, prayer, lament, compassion, and so on -- can contribute to the process of dying well. Working on the premise that one dies the way one lives, the book is unique in its constructive dialogue between theology and medicine as offering two complementary modes of care.
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As our lifespans continue to grow longer, millions of people every year spend time caring for the elderly and dying-some as professionals, some as volunteers, and some through their loving but demanding care for parents, spouses, or other family members or friends.
In her book In the Mystery's Shadow, Susan Swetnam draws on her experience serving thousands of ill and dying clients, often in hospice programs, as a certified massage therapist-and also...
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Living Well and Dying Faithfully explores how Christian practices-love, prayer, lament, compassion, and so on-can contribute to the process of dying well. Working on the premise that one dies the way one lives, the book is unique in its constructive dialogue between theology and medicine as offering two complementary modes of care.
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How I Lost My Mother is a deeply felt account of the relationship between a mother and son, and an exploration of what care for the dying means in contemporary society. The book is emotionally complex, funny, sad and angry, but above all, heartfelt and honest. It speaks boldly of challenges faced by all of us, challenges, which are often not spoken about and hidden, but which deserve urgent attention. This is first and foremost, a work of the heart,...
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Conversations About Death is the result Sally Cant's twenty years in the death and dying industry. It contains a wealth of information that will make you feel more relaxed, open and comforted by talking about death and dying. Conversations About Death is a much needed tool: to assist in those conversations about what things a person might consider for themselves and their families regarding their death; to understand what's happening in the field...
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The slow violence being inflicted on our environment-through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution-also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in...
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