Book contents
- The Gift of Aging
- Reviews
- Additional material
- The Gift of Aging
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Map and Compass
- Part I Caring For Your Mind
- Part II Caring For Your Body
- Part III Caring For Yourself and Your Family
- Part IV Caring For Your Soul
- 27 I Don’t Want to Go Downstairs!
- 28 How NOT to Be Afraid of Dying and Ensure that Your Family Remembers Your Death as a Peaceful One
- 29 Only Two Things
- 30 Grief and Loss
- 31 Living to Make a Difference
- 32 The Great Leveler
- 33 View from the Mountain
- 34 The Healing Power of Nature
- 35 The Best Place in the World to Grow Old
- 36 From Revolution to Pandemic
- 37 The Power of Positivity
- 38 An Incredible Journey
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Elizabeth’s Original Mediterranean Diet Recipes
- Index
28 - How NOT to Be Afraid of Dying and Ensure that Your Family Remembers Your Death as a Peaceful One
from Part IV - Caring For Your Soul
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2023
Book contents
- The Gift of Aging
- Reviews
- Additional material
- The Gift of Aging
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Map and Compass
- Part I Caring For Your Mind
- Part II Caring For Your Body
- Part III Caring For Yourself and Your Family
- Part IV Caring For Your Soul
- 27 I Don’t Want to Go Downstairs!
- 28 How NOT to Be Afraid of Dying and Ensure that Your Family Remembers Your Death as a Peaceful One
- 29 Only Two Things
- 30 Grief and Loss
- 31 Living to Make a Difference
- 32 The Great Leveler
- 33 View from the Mountain
- 34 The Healing Power of Nature
- 35 The Best Place in the World to Grow Old
- 36 From Revolution to Pandemic
- 37 The Power of Positivity
- 38 An Incredible Journey
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Elizabeth’s Original Mediterranean Diet Recipes
- Index
Summary
Chapter discusses practical things seen in her practice that make people afraid of dying. She offers tips from many of her patients who have died a peaceful, comfortable death. Don’t be afraid to talk about dying. Chapter explains 5 things that dying looks like. If we work through our fears, plan as best we can, and talk with our primary care provider about getting hospice in a timely way, we can die comfortably with a good ending and leave our family feeling peaceful about our death.
Keywords
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Gift of AgingGrowing Older with Purpose, Planning and Positivity, pp. 196 - 203Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023