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When This Life Meets The Next
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ISBN13: 9798171857394
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When This Life Meets the Next: A Gentle Guide to Living, Letting Go, and Facing What Comes Next is a compassionate, interfaith guide for people living with cancer, their loved ones, caregivers, and anyone confronting questions about mortality. Rather than asking readers to choose between hope and preparation, the book embraces two-handed living-holding hope for more life while also making space to prepare for what may come. Through intimate composite stories, patient-centered reflections, practical exercises, caregiver guidance, and perspectives drawn from religious, spiritual, humanist, and secular traditions, the book explores fear, faith and doubt, forgiveness, relationships, legacy, end-of-life wishes, and the mystery of what may follow death. It intentionally welcomes readers who have strong faith as well as those who are uncertain about God or an afterlife, without requiring a particular belief or definition of a good death. At its heart, When This Life Meets the Next offers readers permission to live fully while preparing gently-recognizing that facing mortality does not mean abandoning hope, but can become a way of loving, connecting, and living more deliberately.
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