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Talking About Dying: Help in Facing Death & Dying

by Philip Giddings, Martin Down, Elaine Sugden and Gareth Tuckwell

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  • 1. Why and how do we need to talk about dying?
  • 2. Coping with life-threatening illness
  • 3. Difficult Decisions
  • 4. Talking about dying - when, where and how?
  • 5. Coping with the Unexpected
  • 6. Suicide
  • 7. The Death of a Baby
  • 8. Talking to Children
  • 9. Talking about Life after Death
  • 10. Facing up to Fear
  • 11. Praying for Healing
  • 12. Practical Matters
  • 13. How we can help
  • Appendix . More Practical Help

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    Help for doctors

    In 2018, the UK professional membership body The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) led a project for doctors on Talking about Dying – How to begin honest conversations about what lies ahead.

  • Article

    Cicely Saunders - pioneer of the modern day hospice movement.

    It is wonderfully inspiring when someone finds the time, energy, wisdom and inspiration to bring about a change that helps so many in crisis.

    Dame Cicely Saunders had a young close friend dying of cancer and was very distressed by all he was going through. She determined to draw on her nursing and social care experience to set up places to train staff to care for those, like her friend, for whom there was no cure or helpful treatment, and who were facing potentially increasing pain of body, mind and spirit.

    As a result, St Christopher’s Hospice was founded.

  • Article

    Death-the great leveller? Dr Helen Salisbury

    100,000 people who could benefit from palliative care die without receiving it. There’s a clear socio economic gradient to this.

  • Talking Points

    The Death of the Queen - a death at home

    What a lovely way to die: at home, surrounded by her family, quickly and easily, without hospitalization, a peaceful slipping away into the everlasting arms of her heavenly Father, hers and ours.

  • Review

    Spiritual Care at the end of life: The Chaplain as a ‘Hopeful Presence’ by Steve Nolan

  • Talking Points

    Senior doctors recognised the need for Palliative Care 50 years ago

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