Where Souls Meet: Caring for the Seriously Ill

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Summary: A tool for living as well as dying
Review: Where Souls Meet offers an enormously practical guide to anyone experiencing their own or someone elses dying process, as well as a thoughtful invitation to consider the quality of consciousness one brings to relationship in general. It's said that we die much the same way we live, and Dillon's intimate sharing of his own experience enables the reader to touch their own conflicting feelings around a very difficult and inevitable part of life with compassion, humor, and blessed acceptance. Reading this book creates a larger space in which to be human - a great gift at any stage of living.

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Summary: A Survivors point of view
Review: 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.

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Summary: Essential reading for loved ones of the terminally ill
Review: written with humble authority, the writer offers us a handbook, basically, on how to say what we don't know how, and how to help in ways that we couldn't know without experience, or a guiding, helping hand. thank you mr woods, for such a brave, informative, human piece of work. You have made the world much easier to bear in situations like these.