Living and dying

A moving, thought-provoking and surprisingly humorous book which is both a description of a journey to death and a celebration of the act of living.

Drawing on eight decades of life -- and his career as a writer, teacher, and activist -- Palmer explores the questions age raises and the promises it holds.

What happens to the dying in the final days and weeks of their lives? What emotions come to the surface and what do they want to talk about?

This book provides mental capacity practitioners with accessible ethical guidance and applicable tools for applying the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005.

Internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander always considered himself a man of science.

In Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse of thirty years and counsellor of cancer patients with terminal diagnoses, recounts twenty conversations she has had with the dying; including those personally close to her.

A warmly written booklet to be given to those mourning the loss of a loved one. In three short sections it guides the reader gently through the arrangements to be made and the events on the day of the funeral.

What does it mean to grow old? What makes later life meaningful? What gives a frail and isolated or institutionalised older person their sense of wholeness and self? This substantially updated new edition of Elizabeth MacKinlay's seminal text pre