The Grace in Dying

A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation

Kathleen Dowling Singh

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9780062316318
• Print ISBN:
  9780062515650

This "wise and moving" meditation on mortality "should give solace to those facing death as well as to their friends and family" ( Publishers Weekly).

In The Grace of Dying, Kathleen Dowling Singh illuminates the profound psychological and spiritual transformations experiences by the dying as the natural process of death reconnects them with the source of their being. Examining the end of life in the light of current psychology, religious wisdom, and compassionate medical science, Singh offers a fresh, deeply comforting message of hope and courage.

Written for those aware that their life is coming to an end, those who care for the dying, and, ultimately, for all of us who must inevitably face death,  The Grace in Dying reveals that dying is the most transforming, powerful, and spiritually rich of life's experiences.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Living, Dying, and Transformation
• The Journey to Ego
• The Consciousness of the Ego: Halfway Home
• The Path of Return
• From Tragedy to Grace
• The “Special Conditions” of Transformation
• The Psychospiritual Stages of Dying
• The Nearing Death Experience
• Entering the Mystery
• At the Edge of Life
• Appendix I: The Sufi Cartography of Levels of Consciousness
• Appendix II: Karnofsky Performance Status Scale
• Appendix III: Comparison of Cartographies
• Notes
• Glossary
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author
• Copyright
• About the Publisher