Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring

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Hodder & Stoughton, 1994 - Death - 125 pages
Dying and death bring fear, 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 about death as the greatest gift we have. 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 our death in such a way that our death can become fruitful in the life of others'.

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About the author (1994)

He was born in the Netherlands in 1932. An ordained priest and gifted teacher, he taught at several universities including Notre Dame, Harvard and Yale. He was a missionary in Peru. He died of a heart attack in 1996.

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