Sitting with someone who is dying is work that few people are prepared for, and this handbook treats it as a practice that can be learned.
Felicity Warner founded the Soul Midwives movement, which trains companions to support people through the stages of dying at home, in hospices and in care homes. Revised and expanded, the handbook covers end-of-life planning, opening difficult conversations, and helping with legacy work of the kind that produces memory books and audio recordings. It also sets out gentle approaches to easing distress, including guided visualisation and quiet ritual, and practices for holding vigil across different faiths using oils, music and ceremony. Medical decisions and symptom management belong with qualified doctors, nurses and palliative teams; the book is written to sit alongside that care, never to replace it.
Why this one holds up:
• Revised and updated edition with new material added
• Covers conversations, planning and legacy work as well as vigil practice
• Written for caregivers, health workers and families alike
• Approaches suitable for people of different faiths and of none
For carers, hospice volunteers and anyone supporting a dying relative, available from Boipoka.
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