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18 best books for nurses about grief, death and loss

The Nurse Break

18 best books for nurses about grief, death and loss. Processing grief can be a significant challenge to those directly experiencing loss and their loved ones. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi.

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Finding the Sacred Feminine: Lessons from India

Elaine Mansfield

She and the few other devotees were silent, somber, and grief-stricken. with Marion Woodman, 2003. A few of Sri Sankara’s closest disciples sat near an empty palanquin (a small litter) where the sage had slept when on pilgrimage. Sita-Ma, an older women disciple, sat on a cement platform. The litter would soon be moved, too.

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