Read more
A valuable booklet which describes in detail what a caregiver can expect when a person is dying.
This end-of-life process can be unsettling if you don't know what is going on. For example, some symptoms may appear to be more serious than they really are. Information is given about the availability of Hospice care.
Also described are all the legal and other things that need to be sorted out once death has occurred, followed by some counselling about grief for those involved.
George Seber is a retired professor of statistics from Auckland University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, New Zealand. He is a Christian counsellor of seventeen years' practice. In addition to this booklet he is an author or co-author of seventeen books on statistics, as well as a book for counsellors and a book on science and faith.
About the author
GEORGE A.F. SEBER is an Emeritus Professor of Statistics and held the foundation Chair in Statistics at Auckland University for several decades. He has a PhD in statistics and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society NZ in 1997. In 1999 he was awarded the society's Hector Medal in Information Science. In his later years he trained as a counsellor at Laidlaw College to obtain a Diploma in Counselling from Laidlaw College and has been counselling for 17 years. He is also qualified as a supervisor of counselors and a member of the Christian Counsellors Association (NZCA). George is the author or co-author of 17 mathematical statistics books (mainly published with Wiley and Springer) with one translated into Chinese and Russian, and another into Portuguese. He also has an extensive 638 page counseling book entitled "Counseling Issues: A handbook for Counselors and Psychotherapists (self-published), a Christian apologetics book entitled "Can We Believe It?: Evidence for Christianity", and a short booklet entitled "Coping with Dying: Death of a Loved One". He has been a member and musician at Windsor Park Baptist Church for many years, and he and his wife ran a divorce recovery programme called New Start there for several years. Currently he is involved there as a regular speaker with an apologetics programme called Reasons for Faith.
