KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DYING IS GOOD!!!!!! (FROM A FORMER HOSPICE HEALTH AIDE).
Book Review: Transitions: A Nurse’s Education About Life and Death by Becki Hawkins.
Some of you may remember an old post I wrote called Someone Else Wrote My Book: What Now? where I expressed some angst at the discovery that a hospice nurse/chaplain from Oklahoma had just published the book I was trying to write. Well, after a year of dark muttering in my cups I finally read Transitions: A Nurse’s Education About Life and Death by Becki Hawkins and loved it. Loved.
Her book brought it all back to me again in the best way, what it used to feel like when I worked with hospice and how the people I served strengthened, nourished, and changed me. Transitions provides an authentic portrayal of the endless number of ways that people face catastrophic illness and death, not in a clinical or grisly way, but in terms…
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very good !
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