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Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us to Live (Paperback)
by Marie De Hennezel (Author), Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 197 pages
  • Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New Ed edition (25 Jun 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751523321
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751523324
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 240,358 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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'Dying is society's last taboo and this book, in its honesty, warmth and humanity helps overcome it.'

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Marie de Hennezel is a gifted psychologist who works as part of a remarkable team of doctors and nurses in a hospital for the terminally ill in Paris. The men and women who come there do not always know that they are dying. It is Marie de Hennezel's aim to bring them - and their loved ones - to this knowledge and then to encourage them to live each day that remains as fully and serenely as possible.

Through her amazing gentleness and the unforgettable people she helps, we learn how precious the final days of a person's life can be and how deeply moving it is to share these moments with someone else. In an age where people hesitate to talk about dying, this important and ground-breaking book lends us the strength to confront the mysteries of death, gives us hope and celebrates the courage of the human spirit. It is also remarkably life-affirming.

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5.0 out of 5 stars empowering commentary on being with dying people at the end, 18 Sep 2001
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I have just spent a week being with my 66 year old mother in the last stages of her life (I virtually lived in her hospital room with my 2 brothers 24 hours a day). It was the most moving, powerful and spiritual experience I have ever had - more amazing than childbirth in a way - because my love for my mother conquered my fear through the dying process. Afterwards I wanted to find out about how it was for others, to make sense of this incredible time. I found this book to be a wonderful companion and commentary on this process (and there's virtually nothing like this book around except from author Elizabeth Kubler Ross which to me didn't feel so in tune). Intimate Death is beautifully written and completely true to my own experience and tells the true story of the chief psychologist, Marie Hennezel, in a ground breaking palliative care unit in Paris and her experiences in enabling and loving dying people. Communication with the dying is unique and totally real not like the fabrication of ordinary life and so it is beautiful and transcendent. Going through this process in a good way (even though obviously it's also incredibly painful at times for the living) and being part of a good death will help me firstly get over the death of someone I adored but also, I feel, will make the rest of my life have much more meaning than if I had run away because of my fear. I only wish I had had the courage to read this before my mum died because it would have helped me do an even better job in supporting her in her last days but I am very glad I have read it now. Brilliant
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