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Detailed Description
Facing Death: A Companion in Words and Images
By Linda Watson
Photography by Maggie Sale
Published by Health Professions Press
ISBN: 978-1-932529-48-7
Facing Death: A Companion in Words and Images is a tastefully designed gift book of 90 pages. It was created as a resource for those who are preparing for death, either their own or that of a loved one.
Easy to read and easy to handle, under one cover it provides:
- thoughtful messages by Linda Watson and carefully-chosen quotations from other sources,
- stunningly beautiful full-colour nature photographs by Maggie Sale,
- lined pages for personal journaling, and
- blank pages where favourite photos, notes, prayers cards and other items might be inserted.
Facing Death is intended to help the dying (and their loved ones) with preparing for death and gaining some perspective on their experience. When the journaling and insert pages are used, the book may become a treasured keepsake forever.
The printed content might be sorted into three categories, as follows:
- Practical, thoughtful advice to guide choices.
- Affirmations that validate the range of feelings experienced at the end of life.
- Inspirational messages that speak to the need for peace and meaning.
Facing Death: A Companion in Words and Images is unique in the publishing world. It is:
- just 90 pages in length, with a predictable layout,
- written in everyday language,
- able be to be read through in one sitting or sampled piecemeal, as desired,
- lightweight and easy to hold,
- able to lie open at any page because of a special binding,
- filled with exquisite photographic images,
- accessible to a wide audience,
- intensely spiritual without prejudice toward any one religious or spiritual tradition,
- practical, instead of theoretical,
- more inspirational than instructional,
- written expressly with the dying person and their loved ones in mind,
- created for use in the final weeks and months of life,
- open to personalization in several ways, and
- proven to have application until the final hours of life.
The book has won three awards to date: the 2009 USA Book News National Best Book Award in the Spirituality: Journaling & Quotes category, the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence in Publishing in the Gift Book category sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association, and the 2010 National Mature Market Silver Award in the Book (Editorial) category.
 
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