dying well
Inclined toward God at the end of life
My friend adjusted his hospital bed. Then he said his final words.
Grateful even at the grave
A good pastor looks for the sacred within the ordinary.
Luminous at the end: My sister's last 40 days
Modern medicine makes it difficult to die. Often, treatment seems to prolong not living so much as dying. With no earthly hope, Regan was spared all this.
Letters and Papers from Prison
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison comes under the category of “Books to Be Read on an Annual Basis”—like Augustine’s Confessions, King Lear, or anything by Flannery O’Connor. In general, we read too many books and return to too few.
Still dying badly: A Christian critique
The emphasis on patients' rights and autonomy has been a weak remedy for medicalized death.
by Allen Verhey