Stories Of The Intimate Privilege Of Accompanying The Dying
From the author of 'Water Music', 'Companions For The Passage' is an unforgettable book on a rarely visited subject: the personal accounts of those who have witnessed the death of a loved one. Author Marjorie Ryerson's interviews capture the human condition through their wide variety of experiences and voices.
Some of the interviews are religious, some not; some encouraged their loved ones to accept death, others to fight it to the end. There are stories of heroic nurses and of indifferent hospital bureaucracies, of deaths that came to soon, and those that came at the end of a long, rich life. Possessing an affirmative quality that is anything but sentimental, ultimately these stories celebrate the experience of being present at the death of a loved one.
