Talking about Dying: Help for everyone in facing death and dying - Couverture souple

Sugden, Elaine; Giddings, Philip; Tuckwell, Gareth; Down, Martin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1915934036 ISBN 13 : 9781915934031

Editeur : Dictum, 2024

Synopsis

The idea for this book came from Philip Giddings, a retired Professor. While he was still working at Reading University, his wife died suddenly at home. There was no warning, and no chance to say goodbye. Philip's first wife had died young after a long illness. Now he was widowed twice, in different circumstances. He was devastated. He talked with friends of his from student days, Chris and Elaine Sugden, and discussed with them the idea of this book. Elaine was a cancer consultant, so working with families where a member was dying of cancer ― an adult, or often a child. Together Philip and Elaine drafted an outline for the book. They drew in others who were experienced with hospice care, and with pastoral counselling. You will see the range of topics handled in the Table of Contents. All the writers are Christians, and there is a clear thread of hope through the book. However it is written for people of any faith, or of no faith, or for people who don't know what they believe. There is a chapter on faith, and one on facing up to fear. The book has its own website where articles on a range of subjects are posted. It covers matters like making a Will; making an Advanced Decision (whether you want to be resuscitated if your heart stops) and other such practical questions we should be aware of. It is a book for everyone, whether 25, 45, 75 or 85. We all face the death and dying of family members and friends. And we all need to make practical arrangements (like a Will) for our own deaths, while we are younger. I write as Publisher, and have to say it is one of the most helpful books I have found on such matters.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Elaine Sugden worked in Leeds in the 1970s as a doctor of children with leukaemia before moving with her family to India for six years. From 1984 she worked in adult oncology in Oxford, and from 1995 as a consultant treating adults and children with cancer. She wrote her contributions to this book after retiring in 2013, based on her years as a practising doctor. Elaine continues to be involved in a European organization working for those treated for cancer when children. Her booklet Caring for People with Cancer, based on a series of seminars in India, was published in 1998. Philip Giddings taught at the University of Reading from 1972 until his retirement as Head of the School of Politics and International Relations in 2011. Philip was an elected member of the Church of England General Synod from 1985-2015, and of Archbishops’ Council from 2001-2015, and he chaired its Mission and Public Affairs Council from 2003-2011. He has twice been widowed. His other publications are in the field of Parliamentary affairs and the Ombudsman institution. Martin Down is an Anglican priest who served in country parishes in Lincolnshire and Norfolk until 2012 when he retired to live in Oxfordshire. Martin is author of several books including The Best Is Yet To Be: Being happy in retirement and old age (2012) and The Christian Hope: A guide to life after death (2016). Gareth Tuckwell was Medical Director of Burrswood Christian Hospital, and CEO from 1986-2012, and Medical Director and Clinical Director at Hospice in the Weald from 2003-2007. He has been involved with Macmillan Cancer Support as both a regional director and trustee. Until 2020 he chaired Sanctuary Trust and the ME Trust. He remains vice-president of Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care. Gareth contributed to ‘A Time to Heal’, a report for the House of Bishops in 2000, A Question of Healing (Eagle, 2000) and Transforming Health (MARC 2005).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dictum
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1915934036
• ISBN 13: 9781915934031
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Éditeur: Cameron Julia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: DICTUM GmbH; info@dictum.com; ; Gottlieb-Daimler-Str. 3; Plattling; Bayern; 94447; Allemagne