Death and Dying - GRACE IN DYING: A Message Of Hope, Comfort & Spiritual Transformation

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From Publisher's Weekly - Publishers Weekly
Singh, a hospice worker with training in psychology and an avid interest in religion, here combines a Kubler-Ross-like approach to death and dying with an Eastern religious take on finitude. She questions our sense of death as an "outrage" and her book is filled with the cornerstones of Buddhism and Tibetan religion, ideas that provide no easy comfort ("Our fear of death is grounded in a strong sense of the `I'"). Some of Singh's consolations are not as strong-minded as this analysis of the ego, however. Occasionally, she uses insights that are hardly transcendent ("As we enter the Nearing Death Experience, both emotion and cognition clear.... Beatitudes flow naturally from our being, now a vehicle for of Spirit"). She is at her most perceptive when she seeks to explain why death is so frightening to us: "We are able to maintain the illusion of a separate self... able to maintain it until we enter death row. The moment we receive a terminal prognosis is the moment that fiction begins to transform into documentary." Singh works with terminal patients and can give careful accounts of dying bodies and minds, yet she also notes that the living in fact have no idea what death is like. Nonetheless, her book serves a wise and moving expression of the living helping the dying and should give solace to those facing death as well as to their friends and family.

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A profound and moving--and much needed--book. —Ken Wilber

Kathleen Singh has written a stunningly powerful book. Her account of what happens to us as we are dying elucidates not only the spiritual character of the death process but also the underlying unity of life and death. Singh helps us understand what it means to die. —Michael Washburn

Must reading! A very powerful and gentle antidote to the fear of dying both in ourselves and our loved ones. —Seymour Boorstein

This splendid book is caressed by wisdom and compassion. It brings immense hope and meaning to life's final chapter. —Larry Dossey

As a physician who has spent many years present with women at the moment of birth, I have often found myself moved to tears by the sacredness of this moment, when we emerge into physical life. As I read through the pages of The Grace in Dying, I found myself moved by the realization that the process of dying is the same in many ways as the process of giving birth, and that the same sacred energy that is so palpable in the delivery room will also be there for each of us at the moment of our death. There is great comfort in this remarkable book. -- Author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom —Christiane Northrup

The new Knbler-Ross has arrived, and her name is Kathleen Singh. In a stunning debut, she has written, quite simply, the most important book on the nature of dying since On Death and Dying. The Grace in Dying gives us new eyes with which to view death, and no one who reads Singh's work can come away from it without sharing her radiant vision. The book is a flat-out masterpiece. -- Author of Healing Toward Omega —Kenneth Ring

Kathleen Dowling Singh opens our eyes to the spiritual aspects of dying, as Sherwin Nuland and Elisabeth Knbler-Ross did for the physical and psychological. Her message...can offer reassurance throughout life. —Steven A. Schroeder

A profound and rich contribution with new and needed information. —Sukie Miller

Kathleen Dowling Singh writes powerfully with penetrating understanding and compelling insights that unlock the hearts of those who climb through the tortuous tragedy of dying to recovering, growth, and grace. —Rabbi Earl A. Grollman

Death is a wise but harsh teacher. It is easier to learn the lessons by educating yourself. Read and learn. —Dr. Bernie S. Siegel

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