Death & Dying

The Dying Time: Practical Wisdom for the Dying & Their Caregivers

By Joan Furman & David McNabb “One of the best books available on caring for the dying, The Dying Time combines deep insight and down-to-earth practicality. All caregivers need to know what’s between these covers. This book demystifies the process of death, yet honors the sacredness of life’s final transition. Highly recommended.”—Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Prayer Is Good Medicine “Living until we...

If Your Dearest Should Die: Dealing With The Loss Of A Loved One

By John R. Brokhoff If Your Dearest Should Die will provide comfort and assurance to anyone whose loved ones are facing death or have recently died. Because death is the great unknown, we all have questions about what happens to our loved ones when they depart this world. This brief booklet provides clear and succinct answers based on the scriptures. Brokhoff writes honestly and compassionately about a subject that is difficult for...

Revealing Heaven: The Christian Case for Near-Death Experiences

By John Price In Revealing Heaven, Reverend John W. Price makes the case for how near-death experiences can be gifts from God and are fully compatible with Christian spirituality and the Bible. As a pastor open to near-death experiences, he has heard more than 200 personal accounts of this phenomena. Todd Burpo’s bestelling book Heaven Is for Real, the story of a young child’s near-death experience, has validated the existence...

The Edge of Life

By  John R. Ling An expert’s analysis of bereavement, eugenics, ageing, suicide, hospices, autonomy, and living wills, from a Biblical perspective and considering the Hippocratic oath, this book shows that modern medicine is adrift and calls for a return to the culture of life and principled compassion. The borders between life and death are blurrier than ever, thanks to years of ambiguity about the status of the fetus. At the...

Naming the Silences

By Stanley Hauerwas Why does a good and all-powerful God allow us to experience such pain and suffering? This question, so often asked, has been approached in a variety of ways. In this illuminating and powerful book, Hauerwas explores why we seek explanations for suffering and evil so desperately in today’s world. He draws on true cases of ill and dying children to illustrate and clarify his discussion of these theological...

Life’s Living Toward Dying: A Theological and Medical-Ethical Study

By Vigen Guroian In the past several years our culture’s long-standing prohibitions against suicide and euthanasia have been seriously challenged. A great tidal change in morality and law may be occurring as the courts seem to be creating a new right — the individual’s right to die. Life’s Living toward Dying responds to this challenge. Vigen Guroian discusses society’s moral confusion over the meaning of death...

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews and conversations, she...

The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort, and Spiritual Transformation

By Kathleen D. Singh   In this brilliantly conceived and beautifully written book, Kathleen Dowling Singh illuminates the profound psychological and spiritual transformations experiences by the dying as the natural process of death reconnects them with the source of their being. Examining the end of life in the light of current psychological understanding, religious wisdom, and compassionate medical science, The Grace of Dying offers...

More Than a Parting Prayer: Lessons in Care-Giving for the Dying

By William H. Griffith   William H. Griffith offers a book that can be used by anyone — layperson or clergy — who wants to learn about what is important to those who are dying. Through powerful and moving stories drawn from his 20-plus years of experience in chaplain ministry, Griffith provides lessons for caregivers who walk with others through the “Valley of the Shadow of Death.” Through Griffith’s poignant stories, readers will...

The Art of Dying and Living: Lessons from Saints of Our Time

By Kerry Walters   “Dying is the most general human event, something we all have to do. But do we do it well? Is our own death more than an unavoidable fate that we simply wish would not be? Can it somehow become an act of fulfillment, perhaps more human than any other human act?”—Henri Nouwen All of us face the prospect of death – if not this day, then one day. But most of us would rather defer that thought indefinitely....

A Sacred Walk: Dispelling the Fear of Death and Caring for the Dying

By Donna M. Authers A Sacred Walk helps dispel the fear of death and draws uniquely on the experience of the dying to show how best to meet the practical, emotional, and spiritual needs of a loved one who is facing death. Writer Donna Authers lived in fear of death from childhood well into her adult life, the result of an unusual number of tragic losses in her family. The miraculous story of how that fear was broken marked the start...