Where Souls Meet : Communicating with the Terminally Ill

By Dillon Woods

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970598106
• ISBN13: 9780970598103
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Windermere Pubns
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Compassion and Understanding at it's finest

As a Certified Hospice Nurse and Hospice Administrator I have access to many tools to help both staff and loved ones through the grief journey. Where Souls Meet is both compelling and insightful. From introduction to appendix this book provides each reader with guidance and support through the most difficult time most of us will experience - the loss of a loved one. As we anticipate death, like life, we are faced with many challenges and obstacles. This book offers both inspiration and suggestions to help ease the fear. Dillon writes and shares with a level of emotion and realism that will help both caregivers and professionals alike. Share this book with a friend!

A Survivors point of view

While Dillon Wood's book is primarily written to help ease the miscommunication and lack of communication with the terminally ill; he has given those of us surviving in the limbo of a survivable yet possibly fatal disease a guide of etiquette also. As a cancer survivor some of my darkest memories were not always the treatments or the setbacks but the reactions from fellow humans. Mr. Woods above all explains that we are alive until we are not. A gentle touch, a word of love and above all not being made to feel sub human by condescension are in themselves the tools of respect.

A Great Guide

I have been fortunate enough in my life, to not have lost too many people. Yet, I've had a very close friend saying goodbye to his parent due to the uncureable disease Cancer. I was searching for a way to help him. I found this book, and had the opportunity to pass it on. Coping with something like this can be impossible to talk about. And I found that it comforted him and helped in ways I couldn't. It gave him guidance and strength. I commend Dillon Woods, the author for his humanitarian approach in life, and for taking the time to reach out to so many people who in times like these are often abandoned.

UCLA- Neuro-Trauma ICU RN/Nightingale Critical Hospice Care

I had the privedge to work with Mr. Dillion Woods on a Hospice Case; this past July 2000. He had been there a year already, driving, organizing and helping the patient and family cope. I couldn't believe that everything was running so smoothly. I read his book and even thou I am a practicing RN; I was amazed at all of the ideas and suggestions he had. His book is for everyone. We are all going to die. Lets do it with dignity. Using Dillons book can help guide you before you transition. A MUST get book. Who wouldn't want to be prepared?

Where Souls Meet: Communicating with the Terminally Ill

After reading this book, I was faced with the reality that everyone will have to take care of someone who is nearing death at one point in their life. Before I read this book, I researched the author and found that he had been taking care of the elderly for years and had been a care-taker to many people throughout his life. He was walking the walk. I myself have never been in a situation where I would need to guide a loved one into their final days on this earth. It was never a topic of conversation either, until I read this book that a friend recommended to me. After I read this book, I was shocked at what I had never thought about. The book teaches you how to nurture a loved one who might be coming upon their final days. It talks about situations that you would never think of that are very important in the last days of a persons life. I will have this book in my home until the day that it is time for me to pass. It is an invaluable tool that everyone can use and benefit from. I would recommend this to everyone, whether they know someone who is dying or not.