A Meditation on Dying and Caring
Dying and death often bring fear. Still, the experience of dying and caring for the dying can become the deepest experience of love.
Henri Nouwen has walked this path with family and friends, and speaks intimately about death as the greatest gift we have to offer. The question he raises is not "How much can we still do in the years or months we have left to live?" but, "How can we prepare ourselves for death in such a way that our death can become fruitful in the life of others?"
In these simple, concrete and very personal reflections, Henri Nouwen open a new perspective on the words of Jesus: "It is for your own good that I am going, because unless I go the Spirit will not come to you."
Thus he hopes to encourage the dying to die well and those who care for them to care well.
