
- 112 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book is written as a memoir of 40-plus years of working with human experiences of death, grief, and bereavement. The stories are all similar but uniquely different; similar in the sense that they all relate to varying issues embedded in loss. They are different in how each of these losses occur. The author invites the reader into a world of overwhelming grief brimming with raw emotions. The stories are true and tackle the capricious and unpredictable nature of death in a society that seeks to avoid and overcome the reality of death. Most of the stories are told from the perspective of a hospital chaplain working with real people. While these stories are profoundly sad, the author invites the reader to search for and find snippets of hope through a recommitment to life and living--constantly holding before the reader the dialectic tension that exists between life and death.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Too Young
- Chapter 2: A Fish Named Rudolph
- Chapter 3: Leather Restraints
- Chapter 4: A Book of Poems
- Chapter 5: A Babysitter
- Chapter 6: Pizza Delivery
- Chapter 7: One of Our Own
- Chapter 8: Alone
- Chapter 9: Blind
- Chpater 10: Black Ice
- Chapter 11: A Granddame
- Chapter 12: A Live Oak Tree
- Chapter 13: A New Roof
- Chapter 14: After Hours
- Chapter 15: Business as Usual
- Chapter 16: Engaged
- Chapter 17: I-95 Southbound
- Chapter 18: One Train Track Too Many
- Chapter 19: The Smell of Flesh
- Chapter 20: Jailed
- Epilogue