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A touching and beautifully written story of Nick Taylor’s journey with his parents to the end of their lives.Millions of children are taking similar journeys, which is why the Washington Post called A Necessary End “one of the key stories of our time.” ... Read more

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Thought Provoking
In recounting his parents final years and decline, Nick Taylor parallels the decisions and painful adjustments of many baby boomers.Each one of us must cope as best we can with family illness and eventual loss, but it is interesting seeing his ways of dealing with it.
A slim 194 pages, so it's a quick read.Recognizing our parents personal needs, but constrained by financial and physical burdens, it will be hard to handle their slide from vital active people, into dependents.
Reading individual accounts like this gives us some mental and emotional preparation.

Timely Read
I picked this book up at a garage sale, didn't really know what to expect. The author's story has helped me in my undertaking to be my Dad'scaretaker.It shows how we all deal differently with this challenge in ourlives.I didn't agree with some of the ways the author handled things, butit validates that we all have to find our own way.This book is a quickread, it's worth the time.

Just Beautiful
I was so engaged and moved by this account of Nick Taylor and his parents in their end years.I have been and am the caretaker for my mother, and I found that reading this book strengthened me to do better, and has helpedme to be sensitive and accepting of my mother, and of myself.I can'trecommend this book enough.It should not be allowed to be out-of-print!

Methinks he doth protest to much
This book could have been a tender and healing accounting the changes which aging brings to relationships.It could have been a thoughtful discussion of the practical aspects of nursing home decisions. HoweverTaylor clearly considered it all an inconvenience and a hassle.I suspecthe wrote the book as therapy. The woodblock prints were the best part. ... Read more

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This book is the record of a remarkable friendship between the Cambridge Platonist Henry More and one of the foremost women intellectuals of the seventeenth century, Lady Anne Conway.The letters cover a wide range of topics--personal, philosophical, religious, and social, and they give a detailed picture of the More-Conway circle which included such figures as Jeremy Taylor, Ralph Cudworth, Robert Boyle, and William Penn.This revised edition reprints all the letters from the original 1930 edition, together with Marjorie Nicolson's biographical account of Anne Conway and Henry More, with its emphasis on the personal side of their relationship.A new appendix contains important letters not included in the first edition, among them the early discussion of Cartesianism.The introduction by Sarah Hutton sets the book in the context of recent scholarship. ... Read more

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This collection of essays builds on the contributions of Albert Schweitzer's philosophy of "Reverence for Life" as it pertains to our world today. ... Read more

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Excellent Reinforcement
If you've read Dr. Schweitzer's "Reverence for Life", you should enjoy this compilation of letters and papers regarding and reinforcding Schweitzer's ethic.The included writings are authored by everyone from Graduate students to correspondents and Albert Schweitzer himself.Very enjoyable reading.

With an eclectic variety of soul-searching commentaries
Collaboratively and expertly edited by Marvin Meyer (Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies, Chapman University, Orange, California) and Kurt Bergel (Professor Emeritus, Chapman University and founder/co-director of the Chapman University Albert Schweitzer Institute), Reverence for Life: The Ethics Of Albert Schweitzer For The Twenty-First Century is an inherently impressive selection of profound essays by humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, enhanced with an eclectic variety of soul-searching commentaries on his thoughts and recommendations. Among Schweitzer's presented and scrutinized works are sermons, letters, as well as tidbits of his personal autobiography and deep philosophy. Reverence For Life is highly recommended as life-affirming, fundamental and thoughtfully constructed reading. ... Read more

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"[An] admirable biography which is as meticulous, calm, reasonable, and judicious as its subject is passionate and tumultuous."--Keith Michael Baker, Washington Post Book World

"The definitive biography, as scholarly as it is entertaining."--The Economist ... Read more