The text offers scores of biographical anecdotes about various patients who have experienced Nearing Death Awareness and their experiences with their families and death. In many cases, these individuals were cared for by the authors, in other cases they were cared for by associates of the authors. The very concise nature of the anecdotes requires the appropriate focus of information on the single topic being considered—thus, physical descriptions and personality traits are rarely mentioned and complete characterization of the individuals described is not available.
The authors provide little autobiographical data within the text, but a very concise biographical paragraph about each author is included at the end of the text. Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley have both been practicing hospice nurses for more than a decade. Both have provided extensive healthcare to.....
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