"Twelve Breaths a Minute" the latest collaboration between SMU Press and the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, with the support of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation features twenty-three original, compelling personal narratives that examine the way we as a society care for the dying. Here a poet, a former hospice worker, reflects on death s mysteries; a son wanders the halls of his mother s nursing home, lost in the small absurdities of the place; a grief counselor struggles with losing his own grandfather; a medical intern ...
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"Twelve Breaths a Minute" the latest collaboration between SMU Press and the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, with the support of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation features twenty-three original, compelling personal narratives that examine the way we as a society care for the dying. Here a poet, a former hospice worker, reflects on death s mysteries; a son wanders the halls of his mother s nursing home, lost in the small absurdities of the place; a grief counselor struggles with losing his own grandfather; a medical intern traces the origins of time and the quality of our final days; a mother anguishes over her decision to turn off her daughter s life support and allow her organs to be harvested; and an emergency dispatcher tries to quantify what a stranger s death should mean. "
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