| Description |
viii, 341 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
Told through thirty-odd beautifully-crafted stories taken from nearly four decades of clinical practice, Mannix answers the most intimate questions about the process of dying with touching honesty and humanity. She makes a compelling case for the therapeutic power of approaching death not with trepidation but with openness, clarity and understanding. This book is for the grieving and bereaved, ill and healthy -- about people who are like you, and like people you know and love. You will meet Holly, who danced her last day away; Eric, the retired head teacher who, even with Motor Neurone Disease, gets things done; loving, tender-hearted Nelly and Joe, each living a lonely lie to save their beloved from distress; and Sylvie, 19, dying of leukaemia, sewing a cushion for her mum to hug by the fire after she has died. By turns touching, tragic, at times funny and always wise, they offer us illumination, models for action, and hope. Read this book and you'll be better prepared for life as well as death |
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Death.
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Terminally ill.
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Terminal care.
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Terminally ill -- Psychology.
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Terminally ill -- Family relationships.
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Death -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.
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Terminally ill -- Psychology -- Case studies.
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Terminally ill -- Family relationships -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Case studies.
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| ISBN |
9780008210885 : |
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9780008245597 |
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