Soul Support: Spiritual Encounters at Life's End

A young dancer's last hope—a bone marrow transplant—has failed. A homeless man, in the final stages of AIDS, refuses to speak. A newly retired woman has just received a terminal diagnosis and is wailing in despair. What can we learn about death, dying, and the human spirit as we journey with a hospital chaplain into sickrooms like these? Soul Support tells true stories of people coming to terms—or not—with their final days. It offers intimate, behind-the-scenes accounts of the many ways pat...