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

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Summary: Expert, "user friendly" advice and counsel
Review: 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.