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Living Choices: Health Care

Type: VHS
Author: UMCom
( Caring , Disease/Cancer/etc. , General , Health Care , Hospice , Ministry , Poverty )

From Catch the Spirit. Emphasizes the dificult and complex choices we face as Christians and responsible members of society. Crisis in our health care system: volunteer hospice worker, caregivers for chronically-ill loved ones support one another. A church and community ofganization fun a clinic. Churches, corporations, doctors, and an insurance company provide health insurance for children. Includes discussion guide.

Living Well, Dying Well - Segment #1

Type: VHS
Author:
( Death/Dying , Decision-Making , Ethics , General , Hospice , Pastoral Care , Pastoral Skills )

This first-hour segment features moderator Garlinda Burton, editor of Interpreter magazine, in dialogue with Dr. Donald Messer, president of The Iliff School of Theology; Dr. Sally Brown Geis, sociologist and co-editor with Messer of 'How Shall We Die? Helping Christians Debate Assisted Suicide'; and Dr. Richard Zaner, Stahlman Professor Medical Ethics, Vanderbilt University. Discussion includes patient self-determination rights with close attention to living wills and advance directives.

Living Well, Dying Well - Segment #2

Type: VHS
Author:
( Death/Dying , Decision-Making , General , Hospice , Pastoral Care , Pastoral Skills )

Dr. William Orr, practicing geriatrician, and Janet Jones, registered nurse and CEO of Catholic Hospice, Inc., Miami, Florida, join moderator Garlinda Burton and Dr. Donald Messer in examining an ethical/theological framework for decision making. Panelists review form various perspectives a case study of a terminally-ill patient.

Living Well, Dying Well - Segment #3

Type: VHS
Author:
( Death/Dying , Decision-Making , General , Hospice , Pastoral Care , Pastoral Skills )

Garlinda Burton is joined by Dr. Joretta Marshall, Iliff assistant professor of pastoral care; Dr. Cornish Rogers, E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Claremont School of Theology; and Dr. Philip Wogaman, pastor of Foundry United Methodist Church, Washington D.C. who discuss responsibilities of congregation and clergy in pre-crisis, crisis and post-crisis situations involving end of life decisions.

On Children and Death

Type: BOOK
Author: Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
( Death/Dying , Family/Parenting , General , Grief/Death , Hospice , Parent/Child Relationship , Suffering/Pain )

In this touching and inspirational book, Dr. Kubler-Ross confronts the difficulties faced by parents of dying children and offers them the loving and practical help they need during this critical period. Her messages is that families need to concentrate on love, living, and hope throughout the final period of life.