Dying Declarations: Notes from a Hospice Volunteer

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“Death strips away all of the superficial and mundane details of living and leaves behind life’s bare essentials.” Death is inevitable in life. It knows no boundaries. It knows no skin color, no financial or social standing. It knows nothing but itself. The paradox of Dying Declarations: Notes from a Hospice Volunteer is in its warm affirmation of life through the ’dying... Read more

“Death strips away all of the superficial and mundane details of living and leaves behind life’s bare essentials.”

Death is inevitable in life. It knows no boundaries. It knows no skin color, no financial or social standing. It knows nothing but itself. The paradox of Dying Declarations: Notes from a Hospice Volunteer is in its warm affirmation of life through the ’dying declarations’ of patients who are peering into the cold face of death. The author reveals personal experiences about life, death, and the courage to strip away the unimportant aspects of life to make way for a clearer understanding on just what is truly important. Simple, moving stories invigorate and spark insights—while discussing all aspects of hospice volunteering.

“By facing death on a regular basis, one can no longer maintain a tight grip on the masks, games, and trivialities that one uses to hide from truth. The person who looks death in the eye becomes more honest, grateful, compassionate, and humble.” In Dying Declarations: Notes from a Hospice Volunteer, the author shares his experiences and the lessons he learned from the dying while working as a hospice volunteer. The stories, rather than being sad and depressing, present the author’s hospice experience as being some of the most personally uplifting and enriching experiences of his life.

In Dying Declarations: Notes from a Hospice Volunteer you will learn:

about training for hospice work
why hospice volunteers are at times more beneficial to the well-being of dying patients than family, clergy, or medical personnel
the three basic tasks for a hospice volunteer
how children and dogs can be beneficial for patients
the impact that a dying patient can have on the life of a hospice volunteer
words of wisdom about living life, directly from hospice patients

Dying Declarations: Notes from a Hospice Volunteer will inspire and enlighten hospice volunteers, nurses, physicians, clergy, social workers or anyone who works for hospice or provides end-of-life care. Read less

Preface
Chapter 1. Hospice Training
Chapter 2. We Need to Get Some Wood in Before Winter
Chapter 3. One M&M at a Time
Chapter 4. See the World While You Can
Chapter 5. I Have a Dream
Chapter 6. I Can Fix It
Chapter 7. Piggly Wiggly Has the Best Service
Chapter 8. Give Yourself Some Living Room
Chapter 9. Plant a Garden
Chapter 10. I Need to Go to Church
Chapter 11. I Knew You Were Okay When I Saw You Pull up in a Ford Truck
Chapter 12. You Don’t Know All the Bad Things I’ve Done
Chapter 13. He Was a Helluva Ballplayer
Chapter 14. Euthanasia
Bibliography
Index
Reference Notes Included

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David B. Resnik

Dying Declarations Notes from a Hospice Volunteer

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