Being With Dying
by Joan Halifax
Buy on AmazonHalifax is a Zen Buddhist priest, an anthropologist, and a hospice worker. She writes that treating death as a ‘drugged-up, tube-entangled, institutionalized’ final stage denies us valuable life lessons. She argues that the practice of giving care to the dying ‘enjoins us to be still, let go, listen, and be open to the unknown.'
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"Halifax is a Zen Buddhist priest, an anthropologist, and a hospice worker. She writes that treating death as a ‘drugged-up, tube-entangled, institutionalized’ final stage denies us valuable life lessons. She argues that the practice of giving care to the dying ‘enjoins us to be still, let go, listen, and be open to the unknown.'"
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