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Experienced therapist and grief counsellor Renee Zeylmans offers spiritual insights, practical information and contemplations and meditations to support the companions of those on their dying journey.
List of contents
Foreword -- Bastiaan Baan
Preface
I Being a Companion to a Dying Person
-- 1. Dying is Being Born in the Spiritual World
-- 2. Death is as a Horizon
-- 3. The 'Unknown' Hour of Death
-- 4. Developing Awareness of Our Future Realm
-- 5. When People Close to Us Die
-- 6. The Person Dying as Fellow Traveller -- Monique van der Zanden
-- 7. When Young People Die
-- 8. Experiences in a Children's Hospital -- Patricia de Vos
II Care for the Dying
-- 9. The Senses of the One Dying
-- 10. The Language of Images at the Threshold -- Bert Voorhoeve
-- 11. Music for Terminally Ill People -- Hilly Bol
-- 12. Artistic Therapy -- Marieke Udo de Haes-Mulder
-- 13. External Therapy -- Pauli van Engelen and Toke Bezuijen
III Death is Approaching
-- 14. The Physiology of Dying -- Paul Schmitz, MD
-- 15. Euthanasia
-- 16. Fasting until Death
-- 17. The Double: My Shadow
-- 18. The Moment of Dying
IV After Death
-- 19. Coincidence?
-- 20. The Funeral
-- 21. Accompanying the Dying and Christian Ritual -- Bastiaan Baan
-- 22. Mourning by Friends and Relatives
-- 23. Across the Threshold of Death
-- 24. Staying Connected with the Dead
Afterword
Further Reading
Contributors
About the author
Renée Zeylmans (1936-2018) was a psychologist and therapist working in the fields of relationship counselling, biography, and grief counselling. In 1974, her husband of only a few years died, leaving her with three young children. She then dedicated her professional life to helping those dealing with death and grieving. She taught and lectured widely on the subject.
Summary
Experienced therapist and grief counsellor Renee Zeylmans offers spiritual insights, practical information and contemplations and meditations to support the companions of those on their dying journey.
