{"product_id":"bedside-portraits-on-hospice-time-9780692193204","title":"Bedside Portraits: On Hospice Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"...all things created have an order in themselves...\" Canto I  Paradiso Dante We fear death. When it comes for us or a loved one we deny it. As it comes to pass we sense that dying could be gentler  more meaningful. We suspect there is an order to dying that we dont understand. Grief is nearly equaled by regret. Janine began her life of service helping her father  a self-taught nurse  provide healthcare to the poorest people in the mountains of Mexico. She was 17. After becoming a nurse she found hospice care. She guides people through the process of dying. On a daily basis she learns that in heartbreak there can be profound beauty and joy. And peace. This is not a how-to guide with checklists for a good death. Janine tells the stories of her life with death and how she  the dying  and their loved ones puzzle through each situation to discover what is possible. Finding the order of a death often means finding the order of the life. You will be introduced to unforgettable people grappling with dying. The stories will ispire you to find the grace to accept and even embrace dying with peace and without regret. Michael Wisniewski  The inevitable finality of death  and its apparent characteristic disregard for personal choice  alienates those who cherish life with its inherent gifts of promise and limitless possiblilities. As the ultimate shared denominator between all living beings  death has the unique power to bond us in dread and apprehension. As a prelude to the afterlife  it also holds us together with intrigue over the greatest of all mysteries. Growing up with a father as a midwife in rural Mexico where birth and death are less temporally insulated from each other through poverty and limited healthcare  Janines early experiences were a timely prelude to her later training as a hospice nurse on the West Coast. Through the soulful narratives lovingly witnessed  distilled and colleced over years of practice  Janines recounted stories reveal dying  not as a dark and ominous event in which we might seem bullied to participate  but show death in its contrast to life as the only parameter that is stark  firm  and powerful enough to imbue the deep meaning that her patients experience in the narratives they hope to communicate through their passing. As faith \"lives in the shadow of doubt \" life is experienced in the ominence of death. But who we become in that process becomes more important than life itself. The kind of person we apire to be  the character we develop  the faith we minifest  our capacity to invest in hope rather than fear  both in dying and taking care of those dying  becomes the ultimeate celebration of life. These stories are individually and collectively timeless in their grace  paralleled only in the love and faith in which they have been poignantly gifted and inspirationally collected for sharing. Todd Carranza  MD\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646956920885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0692193200","price":34.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780692193204.jpg?v=1781683278","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bedside-portraits-on-hospice-time-9780692193204","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}