Sallie Tisdale

This book had many good elements, both philosophical or practical. I liked that Tisdale did not take a particularly religious (or irreligious) view of the process of dying. Rather, she approached it as something that happens to each of each of us. Dying is very much a bodily process, and this is something she emphasizes even as she discusses the psychological process that the dying and those with them also explore.

Sadly, I cannot speak to the practical applicability of the advice. Because of my father's terminal cancer, I was about to read this book, but he died more quickly than we anticipated and I had barely started it when he died. Although this book is about dying, not grieving the dead, even reading it just after a death still helped. It emphasized that there is always another thing to wish for. Not having read this book in time, not having more time to say goodbye, would have just been something else a few weeks or months later.… (mais)