Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life PDF

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Download PRETITLE Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life POSTTITLE from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link As a part-time hospice volunteer, Eric Lindner provides “companion care” to dying strangers. They’re chatterboxes and recluses, religious and irreligious; battered by cancer, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s, old age. Some cling to life amazingly. Most pass as they expected.
In telling his story, Lindner reveals the thoughts, fears, and lessons of those living the ends of their lives in the care of others, having exhausted their medical options or ceased treatment for their illnesses. In each chapter, Lindner not only reveals the lessons of lives explored in their final days, but zeroes in on how working for hospice can be incredibly fulfilling.

As he’s not a doctor, nurse, or professional social worker, just a volunteer lending a hand, offering a respite for other care providers, his charges often reveal more, and in more detail, to him than they do to those with whom they spend the majority of their time. They impart what they feel are life lessons as they reflect on their own lives and the prospect of their last days.

Lindner captures it all in his lively storytelling. Anyone who knows or loves someone working through end of life issues, living in hospice or other end of life facilities, or dealing with terminal or chronic illnesses, will find in these pages the wisdom of those who are working through their own end of life issues, tackling life’s big questions, and boiling them down into lessons for anyone as they age or face illness. And those who may feel compelled to volunteer to serve as companions will find motivation, inspiration, and encouragement. Rather than sink under the weight of depression, pity, or sorrow, Lindner celebrates the lives of those who choose to live even as they die. Direct download links available for PRETITLE Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life POSTTITLE

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• File Size: 5559 KB
• Print Length: 232 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition (October 10, 2013)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00FSEY1D0
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,704 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #13 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Physician & Patient > Hospice Care
  • #23 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Physician & Patient > Caregiving
  • #37 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Hospice Care
• #13 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Physician & Patient > Hospice Care
• #23 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Professional & Technical > Medical eBooks > Physician & Patient > Caregiving
• #37 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Hospice Care

Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life PDF

Well written insight to the lives of everyday people as they fight life's last battle.

This book is uplifting and life affirming and at times just plain funny. All of us will one day be at this junction of our lives and for those who hope to leave a lasting memory these 7people might just show you how.

For those who have or are in the process of or who someday will lose someone close to them, they will find comfort and peace here.

By Christine Hazel

It would be easy to shy away from a book whose main characters are at the end of their lives. But, in the case of Hospice Voices, you would be missing an uplifiting inspirational ride about that part of life we will all experience. The power of the book is the lessons, insights, and inspiration the author gains from a group of diverse, eclectic, engaging, and strong people as they navigate with dignity the last stretch of their lives.

By bob wenger