Dessert first : preparing for death while savoring life / J. Dana Trent.
Material type:
TextPublisher: St. Louis, Missouri : Chalice Press, [2019]Description: xiv, 145 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0827206690
- 9780827206694
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | NonFiction | 306.9 T795 | Available | 33111009720232 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Dana Trent has accompanied hundreds of people and their families on the journey from life to death. Dessert First gathers stories from Trent's year as a "death chaplain" and her sojourn as a devoted daughter walking with her dying mom. Trent's deeply personal, touching, and often humorous look at the ways we cope and create meaning for the inevitable end of life will change the way you think about dying, death, and grief-and how you live now. Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references.
"In the year she served as a chaplain in a hospital "death ward," Dana Trent accompanied more than 200 people -- and their families -- on their passage from life to death. Dessert First gathers those stories and lessons, as well as others from her journey with her dying mom, to illuminate the complexity of death and grief, and how we all might better prepare for a "good death." Dessert First is a deeply personal, touching, and sometimes humorous look at death and dying, and the ways we cope and create meaning for the inevitable end of life. A full appendix includes religious, spiritual, practical, and legal resources for the reader and their loved ones."--Amazon.com.