Soul Midwife's Journal: Stories of Honouring Death

Description

How we do dying and death really matters. This affects not only the one who is dying, but all who are touched by his or her journey. I hope this small book can help in reclaiming our understanding of death as a natural process, and one more affected by our own choices than we may imagine.

Margaret McCallum began her working life as a primary teacher, but soon swapped it for raising her own three children in multi-ethnic Porirua. She enjoys whatever 'work' she finds herself in, whether that be mentoring, writing, clutter-clearing, helping run a community centre or conducting a funeral. For ten years she moved about the UK, listening to life's call and gathering an assortment of trainings and experiences. Since returning to Aotearoa-New Zealand eight years ago much of her focus has been on researching and pondering our approach to death and dying. A clutch of writing projects is now coming to fruition. Margaret has lived in some of Aotearoa-New Zealand's beautiful far-flung places, and now calls Wellington home.

". . . a beautifully scripted collection of stories of those leaving this world as we know it. . ." - Carol Wales, Companion to the dying; ". . . a gem. . . we gain insight into the world of people approaching death, sometimes with dignity and grace and at other times with defiance. . . " - Professor Rod Macleod MNZM, Palliative Care Specialist; "I felt I was 'there', experiencing the myriad emotions that accompany the death and dying journey. . ." - Rev Michele Cherry - Interfaith/Interspiritual Minister