Spiritual Life in Palliative Care: Meaning Making for Both Patient and Clinician

Kerry Egan is a hospice chaplain and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School. Her hospice work has been featured on NPR, PBS and CNN, and her essays have appeared in Parents, American Baby, Reader’s Digest, andCNN.com, where they have been read more than two million times.

ON LIVING distills the wisdom Kerry Egan gained from her experience working as a chaplain for hospice, and yet as the title suggests, it is not a book about dying. It’s a book about what the dying have to tell the still-living. The stories Egan tells here are profoundly moving and inspirational, and yet somehow unsentimental and “refreshingly unpretentious” (Washington Post). A gifted writer, she approaches the attempt to make sense of the messiness of life experience, including its darker aspects - loss, shame, regret - with riveting narrative and a warm, uplifting tone.

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