Nothing Will Separate Us by Frederica de Graaf

How do we respond to a patient or loved one facing death with all of our mind and heart, yet without trying to feel pain or emotions that are not our own? The person approaching death does not need us to live through their pain but to offer a creative response to suffering that is rooted in reverence and respect. From the author's perspective as an Orthodox Christian (and that of her mentor, the late physician and bishop Met. Anthony Bloom) hospice caregiver Frederica de Graaf shares her conviction that death is an entry into Life and shows how family, friends, clergy, and medical staff can support a dying person of any age, creed, or circumstance.

Chapters Include:
1. How We Relate to Suffering and Death
2. The Patient and His Condition
3. Different Stages in Accepting an Existential Crisis
4. Communicating with Seriously Ill Patients
5. Fears That Can Trouble a Seriously Ill Patient
6. If a Patient Is Unable to Speak
7. Family Relations and the Critically Ill Patient
8. The Hours Prior to Death
9. After Death