Everyday Armageddons: Stories and Reflections on Death, Dying, God, and Waste

Drawing from two decades as a hospice chaplain, nurses' aide, and emergency medical technician, the Rev. Matthew J. Holmes invites us to peer into the often occulted dimensions of life's endings. From bedsores to isolation, impacted bowels to the nursing home economy, from neglect to deep, desperate love, modern death's characteristics are navigated here with insight, honesty, depth, and clarity.

Following the sense of horror and humor evoked in each narrative are theopoetic and theological ...