Death and Dying
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Aging Death And The Quest For Immortality Print On Demand Title
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Aging is a fact of life, and issues surrounding it are hot. There are currently 35 million Americans over the age of sixty-five – more than ever. This demographic shift is noteworthy not only because the ranks of the elderly will continue to swell in coming years but also because it is taking place in what the editors of this book call an “ageist society,” one that increasingly loathes every facet of aging. Indeed, the ethical issues associated with aging are among the thorniest in medicine and public policy today.
Aging, Death, and the Quest for Immortality is a timely volume by physicians, health-care professionals, pastors, and ethicists who explore the experiences, dilemmas, and possibilities associated with aging. The book opens by offering three distinct perspectives on aging; this section includes practical suggestions for dealing with retirement, disability, healing, and death. Several contributors then analyze controversial ethical issues raised by aging and health care, including medical decision-making, the moral standing of patients with dementia, health-care rationing, and assisted suicide. A third group of essays applies a theology of care to ministry to and through older adults, the counseling of seniors, and the application of palliative care. The book closes by discussing some of the emerging technologies and interest groups aimed at achieving immortality, also asking, appropriately, what insights the Christian faith brings to the discussion.
Reflecting much wisdom and sensitivity, this book will give welcome help to care providers and to those who are themselves in the later stages of life.
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Grievers Ask : Answers To Questions About Death And Loss
$16.99Add to cartThis book is an invitation to voice and ponder questions about death. How long should it take to get over a death? Where was God when my son died? Is it all right to continue celebrating special days? In his counseling work, Harold Ivan Smith has heard all the questions that occur to grievers as they process their loss. Here he compiles more than 150 common questions, explores the emotions behind them, and provides clear and forthright responses. Whether readers find the answers they seek, new perspectives to ponder, or comfort from knowing that others ask similar questions, this valuable resource will guide both individuals who are in the midst of grief and those who wish to provide comfort.
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Water Bugs And Dragonflies (Revised)
$5.95Add to cartExplaining death to a child can be confusing, both for you and for the child. This fable of water bugs transforming into dragon flies is an excellent way to help children to understand what happens after someone dies: that we don’t know. An excellent way to begin discussions with children on death and what happens after we die.
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AfterLife : A Glimpse Of Eternity Beyond Deaths Door
$19.99Add to cartIn his latest book, LaGard explores what the Scriptures tell us about death, hades, heaven, and hell, and also challenges the current fascination with Rapture and end-times theories as well as the afterlife beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and Roman Catholics.
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Helping Children Grieve (Revised)
$13.99Add to cartThis straightforward book helps adults talk to children in meaningful ways, nurturing their faith and building their emotional strength during a time of crisis. The author explains common reactions (emotional, physical, and behavioral) parents can expect from children of all ages, and offers adults the spiritual tools they need to help children cope with a significant loss.
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When Your Friend Dies
$6.99Add to cartSometimes friends feel that they don’t have permission to grieve because they have a less significant experience than family members. In When Your Friend Dies, Harold Ivan Smith explores the concept of “friendgrief” and offers compassionate guidance for those who have suffered the death of a friend and yearn to come to terms with their loss. This is an extremely helpful book that provides understanding and courage for you and other friends.
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When Your Spouse Dies
$6.99Add to cartIn this warm and helpful book, Mildred Tengborn addresses the emotions and difficulties widows and widowers face as they look ahead to life without their spouses. She offers spiritual comfort and hope, guiding the reader through the phases of shock and disorganization to the reconstruction of a new life.
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When Your Baby Dies Through Miscarriage Or Stillbirth
$6.99Add to cartThe experience of miscarriage or stillbirth is confusing and distressing. When Your Baby Dies offers honest and practical guidance for parents and other family members. Authors Louis A. Gamino and Ann Taylor Cooney draw on their personal experiences to provide gentle insights into the grief process, mourning, and moving on. A comforting book that can help you or someone you know through the grieving journey.
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Ethics Of Assisted Death
$12.95Add to cartAre we ever justified in choosing to die by deliberate action? Is it ever right to aid those who request assistance in dying?
These questions are widely debated today, and in this book Cauthen sets forth the major arguments for and against physician-assisted death. Readers will find here all the essential information they need to approach this problem and form their own personal point of view.
Cauthen writes from a religious perspective and makes explicit the biblical and philosophical foundations for his thinking. He presents a cautious and reasoned case for changing the current law with respect to physician-assisted suicide and physician-administered death.
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Best Funeral Meditations
$10.95Add to cartThis collection of best funeral meditations provides a wide range of messages that address almost every death situation from the anticipated to the tragic. These classic meditations have been gathered from the writings and contributions of pastors, church leaders, and teachers of many denominations.
Among the situations addressed are:
For the nominal church member
For a little child
For a non-Christian
For the death of a child shortly after birth
For a college student killed in an auto accident
For a sixteen-year-old shot to death
For a woman who committed suicide
For a church member who served others
For a 40-year-old cancer patient
For a man who loved the outdoors
For a Sunday morning worship service following a death
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Matters Of Life And Death
$15.00Add to cartPlenty of books explore the emotions of coping with grief and a loved one’s death. But as psychologist Carol Wogrin has observed, there is little advice for those at a loss for words witnessing the process of dying. Matters of Life and Death discusses the importance of communicating with the terminally ill both through talking and nonverbal expression and offers suggestions for what to say to offer comfort, both emotional and physical.
Brimming with constructive advice for opening up, Matters of Life and Death helps allay the fears that often silence friends and relatives in the face of death. Helping readers manage their fears-the fear of saying the wrong thing, of upsetting others, of facing overwhelming feelings-this book is a beautiful prescription for conveying a heartfelt message when it matters the most.
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When Your Parent Dies
$6.99Add to cartAnticipated or sudden, the death of a parent is a life-changing loss for surviving children and family members. When Your Parent Dies is a brief, focused, and compassionate book that guides adults through the first days and weeks of bereavement. Drawing on his own grief experience, author Ron Klug shows how the resources of faith, family, and community can help a grieving person move forward in life to find hope and healing.
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When Your Child Loses A Loved One
$6.99Add to cartDeath is hard enough for adults to accept. For children, the experience of loss can be overwhelming. In this concise, practical guide, grief counselor Huntley offers principles for helping children of all ages understand death, work through predictable “tasks of grieving,” and take steps toward healing and acceptance.
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When Your Child Dies
$6.99Add to cartThe death of a child is the worst loss parents can experience. In When Your Child Dies, author and grief counselor Theresa Huntley offers grieving parents honest, practical guidance. Her insights into the grief process, the tasks of mourning, and the ways people grieve will help parents come to understand, accept, and live with their loss.
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Either Way I Win
$16.00Add to cart1. Trouble Ahead
2. Walk Out Of Fear
3. Standing Up When Feeling Down
4. Free To Live!
5. The Gift Of Communication
6. All Things, Lord?
7. Prayer That Makes A Difference
8. God’s Remedy For Pain
9. Words That Give Us Life
10. You Can Hear The Voice Of God
11. Going Beyond Confusion
12. God’s Provision For Wholeness
13. Making Christianity Practical
14. Healing From The Inside Out
15. Lonesome For Home
16. The Season Of SingingAdditional Info
In this short book, Lois Walfrid Johnson offers readers hope. Not just heartfelt get-well wishes, but the life-giving hope that is found in the presence of Jesus. It is because Johnson understood her life to be in tune with the Spirit of God that she was able to say, “Either way, I win.” It is her hope that this book will give anyone facing cancer or any difficult time the same reassurance. -
Heaven Or Hell
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What will happen when you die? The Bible clearly teaches that heaven and hell exist and that everyone will go to one or the other after death. If you are already a believer, this book will make both hell and heaven more real to you and will help you find the rest and joy that God has promised you. -
Facing Cancer Together
$12.99Add to cartWritten by a cancer survivor, it helps others understand the person with cancer. -Filled with simple, practical ideas on what to say and do to support a loved one who has cancer -Nearly everyone knows someone with cancer, which strikes one of three Americans -Includes prayers and Bible verses for support and comfort
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Light And Death
$19.99Add to cartBegun in 1994, The Atlanta Study is the first comprehensive investigation of its kind into near-death experiences (NDEs). The study’s name hardly captures what lies behind it: life-and-death dramas played out in operating rooms and hospital beds–and simultaneous events unseen by medical personnel but reported with astonishing clarity and conviction by nearly 50 individuals who returned from death’s door. Now the founder of The Atlanta Study, Dr. Michael Sabom reveals their impact on the people who have experienced them. From both medical and personal perspectives, he shares the electrifying stories of men and women from all walks of life and religious persuasions. He explores the clinical effect of the NDE on survival and healing and discloses surprising findings. He questions some common conclusions about NDEs. And he scrutinizes near-death experiences in the light of what the Bible has to say about death and dying, the realities of light and darkness, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Basic Questions On Suicide And Euthanasia
$7.99Add to cart1. Foundational Considerations
2. Theological Issues
3. Legal Questions
4. Moral Concerns
5. Relational Matters
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Many in our society champion suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia as acceptable answers to intractable physical and emotional problems. There are alternatives to this contemporary “culture of death,” however, that uphold the sanctity of human life and seek to meet the problems of fear, pain, and despair with compassion and dignity. Some of the questions answered in this work include
-“How do active and passive euthanasia differ?”
-“Do I have a ‘right to die’?”
-“Is suicide the unpardonable sin?”
-“Why hasn’t Dr. Kevorkian been convicted of a crime?”
-“What should I do if I feel suicidal?”Advances in medical technology have blessed many with longer and healthier lives, but they have also provided us with interventions and procedures that call for serious ethical evaluation. The BioBasics Series is committed to an uncompromising respect for human life that will serve as a compass through a maze of challenging questions.
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Basic Questions On The End Of Life Decisions
$7.99Add to cart1. Foundational Issues
2. Decision-Making Issues
3. Termination Of Life Support
4. Suffering
82 PagesAdditional Info
The choices that we make throughout life are products of what we value. And the value we place on human life will determine the way we treat ourselvfes and others throughout the end-of-life process. Now, more than ever, Christians need to address the crucial questions pertaining to the end of life. Some of the questions answered in this work include
-“How do I adequately prepare for the dying process?
-“Should I consider organ donation?”
-“How can I cope with suffering that God doesn’t relieve”
-“Do I hve a right to determine my medical treatment?”
-“If I remove life support, am I responsibke for the death?”Advances in medical technology have blessed many with longer and healthier lives, but they have also provided us with interventions and procedures that call for serious ethical evaluation. The BioBasics Series is committed to an uncompromising respect for human life that will serve as a compass through a maze of challenging questions.
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Counseling People With Cancer
$31.00Add to cartFew moments are as devastating as when one hears a diagnosis of cancer–and one out of three Americans will hear this diagnosis in his or her lifetime. This book offers practical insights for pastors and pastoral counselors working with cancer patients. COUNSELING AND PASTORAL THEOLOGY SERIES Each volume in this series focuses on practical ways to respond to a serious and difficult pastoral concern within clinical and congregational settings. Offering fresh insights from pastoral theology, each volume integrates the most up to date information in psychology and the human sciences. All the authors write out of firsthand counseling experiences as well as the most recent research on their topics. The result is an invaluable series for counselors and pastors who regularly face tough issues as they offer care to clients and congregants.
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When Faith Is Tested
$17.99Add to cartWhen a religious caregiver visits a person who is suffering and dying or who is grieving a tragic death, questions arise concerning faith in God’s goodness and power.This book deals with the pastor’s preparation to deal with personal and cosmic issues of suffering and justice. Zurheide includes suggestions for conducting conversations with the dying.
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God Medicine And Suffering (Reprinted)
$23.99Add to cartWhy does a good and all powerful God allow us to experience pain and suffering? Drawing on stories of ill and dying children to clarify his discussion of theological issues, Hauerwas explores why we so desperately seek explanations for suffering and evil in today’s world and demonstrates why the solutions that have been suggested are doomed to failure. Alternatively, he shows us a God who, through his believing community, “can give a voice to that pain in a manner that at least gives us a way to go on.”
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Finding The Right Words
$14.00Add to cartWhat do you say to someone who is facing a death in the family, a divorce, the loss of a job, or a life threatening illness? In this helpful book Wilfred Bockelman gives practical suggestions for offering care and comfort. He discusses many common situations and provides guidelines for using Scripture and sharing your faith as you reach out to others.
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When Someone You Love Dies (Revised)
$7.99Add to cartSensitive, insightful, and ultimately healing, this simple booklet holds out hope for children who are dealing with grief. It explains why people die, why friends and relatives act strange, why it hurts so much, what happens to us after death, and more.
