A hands-on guide for patients, families, and caregivers on how tolive an affirming existence while facing the physical and spiritualtraumas of life-threatening illness.

Every page of this book reveals the author's keen awareness of thechallenges faced by patients, families, and caregivers dealing withlife threatening illnesses. In page after page readers willdiscover clear, practical, and wise suggestions that are wellgrounded in personal experience. Don't we all know somebody whoneeds this book now?
--Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D., Editor, Omega Journal of Death andDying

KENNETH J. DOKA is a professor of gerontology at the Graduate School of the College of New Rochelle and a Lutheran minister. He is the former president of the Association of Death Education and Counseling and the author of Disenfranchised Grief and Death and Spirituality.