An Honoring Death: A Primer for Families
Book Details
Author(s)Sally Brenden, Bonnie Johnson
PublisherBrenden Books
ISBN / ASINB00IMFKU2S
ISBN-13978B00IMFKU26
Sales Rank1,155,168
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
An estimated one hundred and fifty thousand people in the world died the same day as my sweet mama. Every death was significant. Each person deserved to die with the honor bestowed on her, a simple widow who raised us seven kids in Grapes of Wrath poverty.
This is the story of a family who loved their mama very much. While we could not prevent her leaving us, we provided a most honoring and glorious sendoff.
Join me, a novice to death, as I direct and record Mom's three-week drama. Insightful and well established hospice and palliative care explanations are added by my sister, a palliative care nurse and hospice educator, who coached us from across the country. In her experience with over five thousand patients and their families, she states this experience was the most profoundly honoring of any she has witnessed in her professional experience. Medical staff, friends, and casual observers echoed the same.
All of us are inexperienced in dealing with our own death; most of us are also ill-prepared to face all the aspects of the death of a loved one. Project yourself into our true story and “try on†how your family could survive and thrive in a similar and inevitable crisis.
The current trend in the funeral industry is “memorialization†and “personalizationâ€. Learn how this was accomplished in an exemplary fashion by our family. And it did not hurt that, in so doing, we saved 65% over average purchased funeral services.
Walk with our family through the gut wrenching natural death process dictated by Mom's health care directive and learn how to apply this to your upcoming situations with love, unity and faith.
From the honest and intimate pre-death conversations, to Mom's re-created dining room set and her autistic grandson leading the call to worship at the memorial service, you will gain creative ideas as well as be challenged to step out of the box and confidently weave your family experience into a uniquely honoring death for your loved one.
This is the story of a family who loved their mama very much. While we could not prevent her leaving us, we provided a most honoring and glorious sendoff.
Join me, a novice to death, as I direct and record Mom's three-week drama. Insightful and well established hospice and palliative care explanations are added by my sister, a palliative care nurse and hospice educator, who coached us from across the country. In her experience with over five thousand patients and their families, she states this experience was the most profoundly honoring of any she has witnessed in her professional experience. Medical staff, friends, and casual observers echoed the same.
All of us are inexperienced in dealing with our own death; most of us are also ill-prepared to face all the aspects of the death of a loved one. Project yourself into our true story and “try on†how your family could survive and thrive in a similar and inevitable crisis.
The current trend in the funeral industry is “memorialization†and “personalizationâ€. Learn how this was accomplished in an exemplary fashion by our family. And it did not hurt that, in so doing, we saved 65% over average purchased funeral services.
Walk with our family through the gut wrenching natural death process dictated by Mom's health care directive and learn how to apply this to your upcoming situations with love, unity and faith.
From the honest and intimate pre-death conversations, to Mom's re-created dining room set and her autistic grandson leading the call to worship at the memorial service, you will gain creative ideas as well as be challenged to step out of the box and confidently weave your family experience into a uniquely honoring death for your loved one.
