Talking about Death

by Virginia B. Morris

Book Overview

Even in this candidly confessional age, we've been conditioned to avoid discussions of death. Our youth-worshipping culture does everything to deny death, which is why, when the end nears, most of us... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565124375
• ISBN13: 9781565124370
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Just for me!

Although I am an RN and have wrapped many patients for the morgue in my day, I still fear death and if I will feel anything when I am dead. This book was affirming, validating and inspiring. It will help me live my life. How does so young a person have such insight into this topic? Of note an article entitled "Could the clinically dead feel pain" in ABC Science Online is fascinating. Thankyou Virginia. Buy the BOOK!

A book about life

This book is a welcome breath of fresh air in a world that seems to pretend that death never happens. It does, and this book reminds that denial will cheat us from what matters in life. My experience as a physician reminds me every day that death is an essential part of life. The book is filled with moving stories about people's confrontation with death and lessons to help us lead a richer life.

Amen to this

Virgina understands that remembering is part of healing.I also use Write from Your Heart, A Healing Grief Journal in my classes. It is good to find books such as these.For the children I teach I use After the Tears, A Gentle Guide to Help Children Understand Death.

Very Enlightening

I bought this book because I am starting to volunteer at a convalescent home. I recommend it for anyone who is going to comfort the terminally ill.The book's true stories and descriptions of what extreme life-saving measures doctors often resort to, have made me want to have a very specific advanced medical directive. Artificial breathing / ventilation and feeding tubes are not for me!

Exactly What I Needed!!

A powerful and positive call to action that inspired me to "make death part of life". Like most Americans, I come from a family in which the very thought of death is always put off until it's much, much too late. Ms. Morris's book changed all that for me. It defanged the "death monster" and turned it into a facet of life that I will think about, talk about and prepare for with my family and friends in a manner that will ease the passage of the dying invididual as well as those who love that person.I never thought a book about death could be so life-affirming!!