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Influencing Death: Reframing Dying for Better Living

Influencing Death: Reframing Dying for Better Living

Smith, Penny Hawkins

Hardcover

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A hospice nurse's unflinching look at life, death, and redemption.

Death is undeniable and unavoidable. We must accept it; there is no other choice. But coming to terms with our mortality can profoundly influence how we live-and how we die. Having been a hospice nurse for decades, Penny Hawkins Smith is an expert on death and dying. As a recovering alcoholic and former drug addict, she knows what it means to change course and become a meaningful contributor to society. Through her work with death, Penny found her purpose in life.

In Influencing Death, Penny brings transparency and levity to the grim topic of death while revealing truths about the reckless past that influenced her decision to become a hospice nurse. Using down-to-earth, compassionate storytelling, she transports readers into the room with dying people and their families, laying bare the raw and real human emotions and behaviors people have when life and death are hanging in the balance.

Weaving together dual narratives of death and life, Penny challenges us to see how embracing our own mortality-and the mortality of the people we love-can help us live more fully and approach the end of life with greater acceptance, grace, and peace.

EAN: 9781964721248
Publisher:
GFB
Publication Date:
2025-01-14
Pages:
228
Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
BISAC Subjects:
Memoirs, Death, Grief, Bereavement,
Nursing - Palliative Care

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