Finding Your Way to Say Goodbye: Comfort for the Dying and Those Who Care for Them

By Harold Ivan Smith

Written by a person who has been comforting and counselling terminally ill people for years, this book offers support and encouragement for both those who are approaching death as well as their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877939756
• ISBN13: 9780877939757
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Ave Maria Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Comport and Guidance - (also see The Courage to Laugh

This book offers comfort and guidance to anyone who has lost a loved one. It is filled with just the right wisdom when one is feeling that all is lost. An excellent companion to this book is The Courage to Laugh: Humor, Hope and Healing in the Face of Death and Dying.

Expert, "user friendly" advice and counsel

Finding Your Way To Say Goodbye: Comfort For The Dying And Those Who Care For Them by Harold Ivan Smith (bereavement adviser, hospice expert, pastoral counselor, and Adjunct Professor in the doctoral program at Northern Baptist Seminary) offers experienced guidance, emotional support, and "real world" encouragement for friends, family members, grief counselors, medical/hospice practitioners, chaplains and ministers in helping ordinary people cope with the terminal illness and/or death of a loved one -- or their own pending death. Each brief section includes a spiritual reflection as invaluable and sensitive guidance is offered covering such issues as: releasing control; dealing with privacy; crying; partnering with physicians; embracing God; expressing anger; forgiving; reviewing your life; making a valid will; making visitors comfortable; telling stories; and composing goodbyes. Highly recommended reading for anyone facing life's end, or who is losing a loved one, or who has lost a companion, Finding Your Way To Say Goodbye is a powerful compendium of expert, "user friendly" advice and counsel that should be a part of every hospice, hospital, seminary, ministerial church, grief counselor, or community library collection reference collection.