"This remarkable collection, coming from personal experience and wide reading, will help many find the potential of growth through loss." ~Dame Cicely Saunders, OM, DBE, FRCP, founder of the hospice movement
"This is a special gem of a resource for those contending with dying,death, and bereavement. Through its expertly chosen material, Dying, A Book of Comfort informs, guides, and gently enables healthy grief and mourning. I recommend it heartily.
~ Therese A. Rando, author of How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies
“Seldom have I read a book that exudes such comfort, such an embrace of genuine insight, care and support....The book’s gift, and it is a rich treasure for the reader, is that it embraces who we are.... The book can be read cover to cover, or just pick out a page. Something will leap off the page, a story, a quote, a reading, narrative couplings of diverse themes colorfully worded by the author/scribe, to give you the needed word or embrace....This book needs wide circulation. The bereaved deserve this, and the book will help all of us.” ~ Rev. Richard B. Gilbert, director, World Pastoral Care Center, in Resources Hotline
"It is by far the best book of its kind that I have come across (and, over the years, I have come across many). It has passages from so many of the writers that I know and have taught and Pat McNees has such good judgment."
~ Carol Brown
“The subject of death is so rife with terror that it takes a calm and sure hand like Pat McNees’s to soothe, help us understand, and finally, rejoice in life. This is an important and very dear book.” ~ Sherry Suib Cohen, author of Secrets of a Very Happy Marriage
“A remarkable collection (331 pages) of quotations of comfort.” ~ Ernest Morgan, Dealing Creatively with Death
"For those who face the lonely reality of death, this book provides understanding and much-needed solace.
~ Claire Berman, author of Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents
“McNees has provided a remarkable anthology of insights, comforting words, stories, reassurance, and guidance for the journey of dying and grieving. Fourteen chapters delve artfully and compassionately into a full range of dying, death, and bereavement topics. An index by author ‘Names’ and another by ‘Titles and Selected First Lines’ make it possible to return and savor the many rich offerings she has gathered.”
"Dying, A Book of Comfort is THE book to press into the hands of those you love, read out loud in the company of others, and reflect on after they have all gone home. Pat McNees gently guides us as we reluctantly explore the far side of forever."
~ Lynne Lamberg, author of The Body Clock Guide to Better Health
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