How to Die Well...introducing Book Reviews & Resources

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My new commitment to survey and report on a variety of book categories has begun in earnest on two of my websites in my vast entrepreneurial enterprise, which is my end-of-life ministry. (This is tongue in cheek for those of you who do not know me personally - i.e. the vast bit not the earnest part...).

Reviews and Resources for healthcare chaplains here:
On this website, I have introduced Reviews and Resources for healthcare chaplains.  I have also asked for contributions by other chaplains in my networks, as to what their favorite books are and will update the page each week, as time and inspiration moves me. There are some amazing books out there...and more coming out each day.

Sustainable Caregiver resources can be found at: 
                                          www.emhager.com/reviews.html
This selection of books are focused on the sons & daughters who are improvising survival (and sustenance) at the bedside of their family members.  It is why and for whom I wrote my own book, as you know, if you are a regular reader.

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NEW BOOK: Sounds like Katy Butler has a new EOL classic.
From the article today in the San Francisco Chronicle, she says all the right and true things that we as hospice & healthcare chaplains know in our bones:

• Have a vision.
• Stay in charge.
• Know the trajectory of your illness.
• Find your tribe and arrange caregivers.
• Take command of the space.
• Clean house...(aka unfinished business)
• Think of death as a rite of passage.

"We influence our lives, but we don’t control them, and the same goes for how they end. No matter how bravely you adapt to loss and how cannily you navigate our fragmented health system, dying will still represent the ultimate loss of control.
But you don’t have to be a passive victim. You retain moral agency. You can keep shaping your life all the way to its end — as long as you seize the power to imagine, to arrange support and to plan."

Check out her events, if you are local:

Katy Butler is a former Chronicle reporter and the author of “The Art of Dying Well” (Scribner, 2019). She will be speaking at Book Passage in Corte Madera on Tuesday, Montclair Presbyterian Church in Oakland on Thursday, and Books Inc. in Opera Plaza in San Francisco on Friday, all at 7 p.m.

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