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Article: When life meets death: stories of death and dying, truth and courage.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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When Life Meets Death: Stories of Death and Dying, Truth and Courage by Thomas William Shane (Haworth, 1998, $19.75).
Louise Giroux is "dancing" with chronic illness. That's her metaphor, and she dances away with it. Her illness does not keep her down. It may slow her, stop her, upset her, but it will not defeat her and keep her from dancing. With that attitude, she can and does handle anything. She even deals with sex for the chronically sick. She is open, honest, inventive! She says the physical problems of chronic illness are easier to deal with than the emotional and spiritual challenges. Giroux speaks out of her own experience but she also tells the stories ...