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Category Archives: Lending Insight
“Follow the Child” by Sacha Langton-Gilks
A handbook for parents of children with a life-limiting illness written by a bereaved mom
Sacha Langton-Gilks is a bereaved mother. Her son, David, whom everyone called DD, died from a brain tumor in 2012 at the age of 16. He had been ill for five long years, many of them marked by efforts to … Continue reading
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“Blue Nights” by Joan Didion
Didion's second memoir of great loss suffered within two years -- this one focusing on her adult daughter
As husbands and wives age together, it is inevitable that one spouse will outlive the other. Burying one’s child, however, defies the natural order of generations and seems that much more insurmountable a loss. In 2005, the iconic American journalist … Continue reading
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“After the Rain” by Daniel Bonjour
The film details the final days of a young man with terminal cancer
“After the Rain” is a touching film about one man’s final days with cancer. It chronicles the struggles he has with his own mortality, as well as the impact that has on his loved ones. The movie is an intimate … Continue reading
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“Heavens on Earth” by Michael Shermer
A professional skeptic poses age-old questions and comes up with some intriguing answers
Since time immemorial, humans have grappled with the question: Does an afterlife really exist? Not one of the approximately 101 billion people who have lived and breathed on this Earth has ever come back from the dead to give us … Continue reading
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“Taking Turns: Stories from the HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371″ by MK Czerwiec
MK Czerwiec's graphic novel provides a first-person look at the AIDS unit at Illinois Masonic Hospital during the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1995
Deaths in the Midwest due to the AIDS epidemic reached an all-time high in 1995. One year prior, in 1994, MK Czerwiec, a nurse, artist and writer, took her first nursing job with the HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 of Illinois … Continue reading
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“When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
A neurosurgeon with cancer explores what makes life meaningful in the face of death
Paul Kalanithi’s cancer became the impetus for his bestselling memoir, “When Breath Becomes Air” – fulfilling his lifelong ambition to become a writer while cutting that life tragically short. The book reveals the story of a neurosurgery resident on the … Continue reading
