Conversations at Midnight: Coming to Terms With Dying and Death

By Herbert Kramer and Kay Kramer

Book Overview

In an intimate look into how one man is dealing with his own death, Herbert Kramer shares a series of dialogues between him and his wife, a grief therapist, as he battles terminal cancer. 35,000 first... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380720078
• ISBN13: 9780380720071
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

I found my friend was gone -- and that he died with peace. . .

Herb Kramer was not only my boss in the days of the government's War on Poverty, but my mentor and friend. Not until Page 75 was I sure this was my friend's book of his journey to death -- a sad, yet positive presentation of what we all face, a journal I recommended to my physician that he may be reassured that death is not HIS failure, but his opportunity to make the journey a helpful guide. I would like to express my condelonces to his widow, Kay, a trained social worker who helped Herb's passage to eternity.

In a word: magical.

...P>There is something so powerful in the simple and straightforward layout of this book, which is literally a dialogue between two people who are finding a peace with each other as they prepare for the inevitable death of one of them, that makes this more than just a book, but a window into human death, faith, love and grieving.<p>Even reading the book in pieces doesn't take away its power.