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When Evening Comes The Education of a Hospice Vo
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Rating: 5/5 from 5 reviews An Inside View of DyingThis is an excellent book for anyone interested in hospice work. But beyond that, I would recommend it to anyone who is facing the death of someone close to them, or ever will, or anyone who just wants to understand better before facing their own end of life. Christine Andreae, writing about her own experiences as a hospice volunteer, shows us that there are no hard and fast rules about what you should or shouldn't do when helping people face the end of a life. Tears are okay, but so is laughter. Questions are okay, even if no one knows the answer. When Evening Comes Helps You Cope with the Dying ProcessSooner or later, we all lose someone very important to us. Reading this book won't make that process easier, but it will help you develop a deeper understand of the process of dying--and how it affects all those who know the dying person differently. This book provides an extremely personal insight of how, even as a stranger, one can be supportive of someone who is dying. It's a sad story, of course, but one that is rich in uncovering the meaning of life. It really makes you stop and recognize what's important--and what isn't and remember just how precious and short life really is. Well written, moving account of hospice careThis well written personal narrative of a hospice volunteer is a moving account of how giving time and strength to others in their final stages is a genuine path to embracing community and self awareness. While I intellectually "knew" what would happen to all of the patients described in the book, I sat up late to finish the book in a marathon of reading to learn how each person's life would come to a close. Christine's strength as a person comes through in her writing--she writes as if her soul is on the tip of her pen. Her kindness and strength of character to seek out this kind of volunteer opportunity will be motivating to all readers seeking to broaden their personal horizons of experience. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a clear picture of a common but rarely discussed human experience, but especially to people in the helping professions of nursing, social work, or volunteerism. | ||||||||||||||||||||
