Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years experience tending the terminally ill.

Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the gifts—of wisdom, faith, and love—that the dying leave for the living to share.

Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.

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• Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life
• Words at the Threshold: What We Say as We're Nearing Death
• Cultivating the Doula Heart: Essentials of Compassionate Care
• On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
• What Do I Say?: Talking and Praying with Someone Who Is Dying
• Seven Keys to a Peaceful Passing: A Hospice Nurse's Step-by-Step Guide to Hospice
• The Four Things That Matter Most - 10th Anniversary Edition: A Book About Living
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
• Lament for a Son