Not particularly helpful
As someone who lost his wife to cancer last year after nearly 35 years of marriage, I've been on the hunt for good resources on death and dying. The glowing endorsements on the cover led me to have great expectations for this volume and it was among the first books I read from a bulk order of resources I received from RHB. As I read this book, however, I found myself frustrated and confused by the lack of depth and thoughtfulness with which the author approached this subject. Having graded many papers before, I felt that I was, once again, in the position of reading the work of someone who had forgotten that they had a paper due at the end of the week and knew they needed to cover a lot of ground and fit in a certain number of citations in order to get a passing grade. The result is a lack of engagement over the pertinent issues and what is there is such a veneer that I would have been better served by reading a random collection of essays off the internet. It is a shame. I had I hopes for this book, but I found it basically useless.
