In Journey’s End, multiple personal, professional, and societal perspectives provide valuable insights. Victoria Brewster and Julie Saeger Nierenberg compiled these many and varied quotes, chapters, and resources to serve as a tool for death and dying education, professional training, and grief and bereavement support. Ideal for anyone who will experience death and dying, the book’s intended readership includes, whether now or in the future… everyone.
Though few of us know when we will die, we and our family or friends can be well prepared. We can have discussions and create written directives for what we want, if we are unable to verbally state them ourselves. Do we want life support? Do we want interventions that may or may not have any benefit to our quality of life if we are in the hospital or in an accident? Do we want to be involved in planning our funeral, memorial, or celebration of life?
The submissions within are from professionals in the field of death and bereavement support and from laypeople, all of whom share stories of dying family members, friends, clients, and patients. Julie and Victoria, the coauthors of this book, also share stories from their personal and professional experiences. Journey’s End is a broadly comprehensive book about death, dying, and the end of life.
Julie Saeger Nierenberg
Inspired equally by her professional backgrounds as a biomedical researcher and long-time educator, Julie values open and lively discussions based on interview and research findings, trends in health and wellness, and exciting new modalities of treatment and professional education. She believes it will be through such discussions that we will create new and more satisfying cultural paradigms within which we may live all the days of our lives with dignity and quality of care.
Victoria Brewster
Victoria has a master of social work degree and a CEOLS (Certified End of Life Specialist certificate). She has worked as a case manager with older adults for the past nineteen years and as a group facilitator for eighteen years. Her past work experience was as a therapist with children and families, and as a case manager for adults with mental health issues. Her consulting business, NorthernMSW, focuses on end-of-life issues, planning, training, and advocacy, along with memoir writing, editing, and proofreading.
*We are republishing this book into 2 parts as the first book is over 500 pages which appeared to overwhelm people. We are currently creating a new book cover.
Because of the current COVID-19 pandemic, this book will be even more important. Julie and I will write a perspective about Canada as a whole and include information from each of our respective provinces; Julie – Ontario and me – Quebec. We also have an individual from India writing a perspective on the topic as well.*
The book is available at:
Xlibris, amazon.ca, Chapter’s-Indigo, amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and if you live locally in Montreal, the book can be bought directly from me for $20 Canadian.
Contact me:
northernmsw@gmail.com
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36164429-journey-s-end
NorthernMSW: Advocacy, Education/Guidance on Grief 