LOVING TO THE END AND ON

Dr Robinson recognizes and encourages ways for anyoneeveryoneto love beyond death in this wellresearched engaging and compelling mix of personal narrative and forthright reporting on endoflife care and miscare Helpful for both families and medical personnel it is part instructive manual part counselor and part love story Her book gently guides us through the sadness of departure toward opportunity and love Never demanding readers believe in an afterlife Robinson instead offers personal stories of death bed visions after death communication near death experiences and end of life care At bedside a wifewhose dying husbands spirit departs his bodybriefly goes with him Having previously been unconvinced of an afterlife and somewhat in shock she declares this single incredible event exceeds any and all of their considerable marital intimacy A lucid intelligent 98yearold man is tragically confined to a psychiatric ward for evaluation of medicines prescribed by multiple physicians Sent home weakened and changed six months later his death is classified as failure to thrive His story offers opportunity hope and love Eight years after Robinson visits a friends death bed her once skeptic friend visits during a dream and takes her to metaphysical night school where a powerful affirmation of love is delivered This is a book about traversing the pleasures and pain of endoflife care about possibility Best of all it is about loves vital enduring nature a clarion call of loves neverending power As a comfort or guide this is a book that family friends and medical practitioners will appreciate over and over again Lynn teaches us through her direct experiences and observations that life and death are artificial distinctions People we love die We die But we suffer less knowing that death is not the end and that we remain connected in ways that are visible if we foster love and an open mind Gilbert R Ladd IV MD Board Certified Psychiatrist