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Healing the Dying (Exploration Book)

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Dennis Lynn, Matthew and Sr. Mary Jane Lynn do and excellent job of providing an outline for a common sense approach to death as Jesus died. Try it; you'll like it. It is a very practical way to get your bags packed to take the journey with Jesus across the great divide.

I bought this book after I found myself in tears just browsing through it, and I'm not even facing the death of a loved one. This is a simple little book by a Catholic nun who had a ministry of "releasing" people (mainly fellow members of her religious order) to die, like a death midwife, or a gifted spiritual director for those in their final hours. The stories she tells are enlightening, the meditations for personal reflection on one's own life are very nicely done, and she clearly had fine insight into what people need to be able to die peacefully. But it's often the glimpses we get of her bedside manner that are the most special, she is perfectly humble in the way she tells the stories but I developed a real admiration for this gentle Sister. The depth and richness of her prayer life is very evident.

The basic insights of this book are applicable to anybody, but it would be especially valuable to devout Christians (and not only Catholics). It would be a great read for people facing down their own mortality, as well as loved ones and caregivers. I'm not really in any of those categories and I still found this book personally rewarding.

Super book using the last hours Christ was on the cross as the pattern for helping a dying person finish life "healed"! It details how to settle business that is unfinished and therefore die in peace.

the brothers Linn and their cousin have given the world a very real gift in this volume.... it Christianizes the steps through which we go in our journey to peaceful death. using the last hours of Jesus as a model, these authors set out a developmental process that is also a very real help to those loving individuals who stand by the dying. a bit older, but nonetheless valid. most helpful.