Final Feelings

Final Feelings

On death, grief, and abiding love

We have lost the knowledge of how to grieve with the dying. Worse still: We often leave them alone at the last. But why are we so desperate to repress saying goodbye? Why is mourning an unpleasant state that needs to be overcome as quickly as possible? Sabrina Görlitz professionally accompanies dying people and writes wisely, lovingly, and unsparingly about the feelings that arise when a life nears its end. She tells of her own pain when she accompanied her father to his death, and of the moving moments with dying people whose life memories she wrote down as a nurse telling stories in a palliative care unit. Along the way, she also wonders how to prepare her own child for her own eventual death.
With touching real-life stories, this book encourages dying people and their loved ones to feel all the feelings that need to be felt. We can and should give words to death and thus confront it together.

• A wise and honest look at dying
• An invitation to grieve together
• Shows how dying people can be accompanied in their feelings
• Helps those who are left behind

»It’s time to cross the border, and not just look over the fence into the land of the dying. It’s time to learn what it feels like there, and it’s time to talk about it.« – Sabrina Görlitz