Briefly Perfectly Human Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
[New York, New York] : Harper Audio, [2024],p&c2024
Format: Audiobook on CD
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 8 audio discs (585 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country's leading death doula, she's spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death, whether imminent or not, will breathe wild, new potential into your life. Alua supports and helps manage end-of-life care on many levels. The business matters, medical directives, memorial planning; but also honoring the quiet moments, when monitors are beeping and loved ones have stepped out to get some air, or maybe not shown up at all, and her clients become deeply contemplative and want to talk. Aching, unfinished business often emerges. Alua has been present for thousands of these sacred moments, when regrets, fears, secret joys, hidden affairs, and dim realities are finally said aloud. When this happens, Alua focuses her attention at the pulsing center of her clients' anguish and creates space for them, and sometimes their loved ones, to find peace. This has had a profound effect on Alua, who was already no stranger to death's periphery. Her family fled a murderous coup d'état in Ghana in the 1980s. She has suffered major, debilitating depressions. And her dear friend and brother-in-law died of lymphoma. Advocating for him in his final months is what led Alua to her life's calling. She knows firsthand the power of bearing witness and telling the truth about life's painful complexities, because they do not disappear when you look the other way. They wait for you.
Subjects:
Arthur, Alua.
Death.
Terminally ill -- Care.
Conduct of life.
Malades en phase terminale -- Soins à domicile.
Morale pratique.
ethics (philosophical concept)
Arthur, Alua.
Death.
Terminally ill -- Care.
Conduct of life.
Malades en phase terminale -- Soins à domicile.
Morale pratique.
ethics (philosophical concept)
ISBN:
9780063329331
UPC: 9780063329331
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
CD HEALTH Art | Main (Downtown) | Book on CD Nonfiction | Out (Due: 6/7/2024) |
Title from web page.
Compact disc.
Read by the author.
Compact disc.
Read by the author.