A Good Death

by Charles Meyer

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896229238
• ISBN13: 9780896229235
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

At peace

Six years ago, my mother, suffering from Alzheimer's, stopped eating. I knew she would die soon, and went looking for something to help me through the transition. I can't remember how I came upon this book, but it was perfect for me. It's short (@50 pages), eloquent, and compassionate. It made me confident that I too could compassionatley and with clarity, be with my mom as she died, and that she would have a good death. With the help of this book and our local hospice, she did indeed have a good death about three weeks later. I have no regrets, just comforting memories. I have given this book to about a dozen friends and acquaintances. I just ordered five more copies, one of someone now, and more for later. I highly recommend this book.

Rethinking Death

This easy to read, easy to understand, quick read on death and dying shows the dying process in an entirely different light than what I had previously envisioned in the physical aspect. As I read the book, I found that I reached a more comfortable feeling about death, both from the perspective of being the one dying and the potential caregiver. I feel so strongly about this book that I am going to buy copies for each of my family members and use it as as tool for friends who are facing decisions about dying either for themselves or loved ones.

Sensitive take on spiritual side of decisions at life's end

Meyer's book is the best I've read that gives a down-to-earth, lay-language explanation of the implications of end-of-life care decisions--like do-not resuscitate orders, tube feedings, etc.--from a religious and spiritual perspective. The author, an experienced hospital chaplain from Austin, Texas, in this brief book provides enormous insight and guidance to families and patients.