It's Time
eBook - ePub

It's Time

Narratives of Illness, Aging, and Death

  1. 154 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

It's Time

Narratives of Illness, Aging, and Death

About this book

It's Time presents a series of short stories highlighting an important but neglected aspect of life. Serious illness and aging are dependable harbingers of life's end. For each of us, there comes a point when we must admit, it's time. We hear the doctor say this to a dying patient and family members, to parents too long in the family home, to sobered younger people when a spouse or child becomes seriously ill. This kairos, this moment of profound significance, comes to us all.Good stories appeal to everyone. Students, particularly medical students or those in pastoral ministry or other health care disciplines, will find this book a unique, rich resource. Senior learners will find the essays helpful to work through their own history of decision-making, grief, loss. The essays provoke discussion and often closure for painful issues. When It's Time, each of us must put away the dreams of youth and consider with seriousness death, illness, and grief. This book can help us do just that. It does it well.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Impotence
  5. Row 30
  6. Red Sprinkles
  7. A Trip to the CABG Patch1
  8. Hard Choices in the Garden of Good and Evil
  9. Please!
  10. Let’s Be Frank: Don’t Get Old
  11. Interview with Ivy
  12. It’s Time
  13. A Visit to Sunny Hill
  14. Sex in Green Garden
  15. House Call
  16. The Birthday Party
  17. Last Rites
  18. Bertha
  19. This Is My Body2
  20. Saying Goodbye
  21. A Process for Making Decisions
  22. Questions for Discussion