Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying TC_Bestseller and not published until 1971

and not published until 1971

Named a Best Book of the Year by: Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * New Yorker * Chicago Public Library * NPR * Oprah Daily * Philadelphia Enquirer

Count Vronsky

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Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying TC_Bestseller and not published until 1971In this moving and compassionate classic, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years experience tending the terminally illnow updated with new material from the authors. Through their stories we come to appreciate the near miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final