Approaching the End of Life - A Practical and Spiritual Guide

From making a will and planning a memorial service to finding peace in aging and illness, Approaching the End of Life offers practical and spiritual guidance to anyone wrestling with the end of a life. With sensitivity and humor Donna Schaper shares information on topics ranging from coping with illness to finding a spiritual home.

List of contents

Introduction
1: The Best Funeral Ever
2: What to do when you get sick and hear the knock of death on your door
3: The importance of the After Life
4: Early dotage, Mid Dotage and Late Dotage: Facing Mortality with freedom
5: Spiritual Preparation for Death
6: Connecting the Practical and the Spiritual
7: Really Bad Funerals do Happen
8: Finding a Spiritual Home Before Death
9: My Lord What A Morning
Further Reading and Resources
Funeral and Memorial Service Planning Checklist
Glossary of Funeral and Memorial Service Terms
Words and Music for Funerals or Memorial Services
Template for a Funeral or Memorial Service
Budget for a Funeral or Memorial Service

About the author

Donna Schaper has been an ordained minister and activist for over fifty years. She has written thirty-nine books and hundreds of essays, features, and op-eds, including a humor series, “The Dolly Mama Does Religion.” She has also worked with endowments for churches and nonprofits both large and small. For a decade she wrote an environmental column for the National Catholic Reporter eco-blog. For the last two decades, she has written daily devotionals for the United Church of Christ website that reaches 35,000 readers. She currently hosts a monthly conversation on the Brooklyn Rail site, called the Brooklyn Trail.

Summary

From making a will and planning a memorial service to finding peace in aging and illness, Approaching the End of Life offers practical and spiritual guidance to anyone wrestling with the end of a life. With sensitivity and humor Donna Schaper shares information on topics ranging from coping with illness to finding a spiritual home.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Schaper, Schaper Donna
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780810895621
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-9562-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, RELIGION / Spirituality, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Counseling & Recovery, Coping with death & bereavement, Spirituality & religious experience, Christian life & practice, Christian life and practice, Spirituality and religious experience, RELIGION / Christian Living / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Religious counselling, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement