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Nearing Death Awareness: A Guide to the Language, Visions, and Dreams of the Dying
Nearing Death Awareness explains the extraordinary behaviors often seen in those nearing the end of life, and how the experience of these can be changed from odd, bewildering moments into opportunities for spiritual refinement and growth. Mary Anne Sanders argues that dying is a complex experience for both the dying person and their family, friends and carers, and it involves all aspects of physical, mental and spiritual. The author explains the different types of Nearing Death Awareness (NDA), including visions, dreams and symbolic language, illustrated with accessible case examples from relatives and health care professionals who have witnessed NDA. She also offers practical guidance for family and carers of the dying about how to respond appropriately and supportively to NDA behavior, enabling the dying person to examine their identity, explore their spirituality and achieve self-acceptance. This sensitive and informative book will appeal to anyone who is likely to accompany a dying person, readers with an interest in spirituality, medical and social services professionals and students of palliative care.
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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November 26, 2022
Recently Diagnosed With Congestive Heart Disease.
If have experienced several NDE'S in my life and one NDA. At the time I did not not know how to label the experience. In addition to helping me identity an Angeles visitation this story will certainly help explain what is happening as death approaches.
I was in VALLEY FORGE ARMY Hospital in the Summer of 1966. The doctors were unable to stop my uncontrolled bleeding. They decided to take out my Spleen, with no clotting factor in my blood. A call for blood was put in and a bus load of Airmen traveled from McGuire AFB to donate blood. That night I was dying, my blood pressure was dropping and my bodily functions we shutting down. A woman in a white uniform, I thought she was a nurse, came to my bedside an asked if she could pray for me. She said, "Could You Hold this vile which contains pieces of the cross. I held it and she prayed. The next day I was on my way to being cured and I could never find her.
John Strogus
107 Moravian Ave.
Lititz PA 17543
Could I buy two of your books. One for my wife who will be with me as this heart disease takes me. The other will be fore my daughter a critical care nurse.
If have experienced several NDE'S in my life and one NDA. At the time I did not not know how to label the experience. In addition to helping me identity an Angeles visitation this story will certainly help explain what is happening as death approaches.
I was in VALLEY FORGE ARMY Hospital in the Summer of 1966. The doctors were unable to stop my uncontrolled bleeding. They decided to take out my Spleen, with no clotting factor in my blood. A call for blood was put in and a bus load of Airmen traveled from McGuire AFB to donate blood. That night I was dying, my blood pressure was dropping and my bodily functions we shutting down. A woman in a white uniform, I thought she was a nurse, came to my bedside an asked if she could pray for me. She said, "Could You Hold this vile which contains pieces of the cross. I held it and she prayed. The next day I was on my way to being cured and I could never find her.
John Strogus
107 Moravian Ave.
Lititz PA 17543
Could I buy two of your books. One for my wife who will be with me as this heart disease takes me. The other will be fore my daughter a critical care nurse.
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