Providing a resource for professionals, patients and their familiesregarding end-of-life decisions

Joe this booklet (Light in the Shadows) might be of interest to you.
There's an Adobe Copy of each (English) one available for download or
saving, for personal use.
80 pages each.
J
http://www.hardchoices.com/about_hank.html
Providing a resource for professionals, patients and their families
regarding end-of-life decisions.

About Hank Dunn

For 24 years Hank has been ministering to patients at the end of their
lives and their families. He served for more than twelve years as a
full-time nursing home chaplain at the Fairfax Nursing Center and for
almost five years as a staff chaplain for the Hospice of Northern Virginia
(now Capital Hospice).

Hank is a graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in
history and was on football scholarship. He received his Master of
Divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Louisville, Kentucky.

After serving for five years right after seminary in a very
traditional church in Macon, Georgia he moved to the Washington, DC area
to be a part of the very nontraditional Church of the Saviour. There he
was a member of the World Peacemakers mission group. For a year following
the move to DC, Hank worked as a carpenter and then for four years
directed an inner-city ministry for hard-to-employ people. In 1983
Chaplain Dunn began his healthcare work as a nursing home chaplain.

He is a past president of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the
Alzheimer's Association. He has served on the Ethics Committees at Fairfax
Nursing Center and the Reston Hospital Center and the Chaplaincy Advisory
Board at the Loudoun Hospital Center. He continues to volunteer as a
chaplain at Loudoun Hospital and at Joseph's House, a home for formerly
homeless men with AIDS in Washington, DC. Hank is a frequent speaker
nationally on the topic of making end-of-life decisions and spirituality
and healthcare.

To help him explain end-of-life decisions to patients and families, he
wrote a booklet to hand to them so they could reflect on the issues
discussed. As an afterthought, he sent the book out to other institutions
to see if they would be interested in purchasing it for their clients.
First published in 1990, Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Artificial
Feeding, Comfort Care, and the Patient with a Life-Threatening Illness is
now in its Fourth Edition, with over 2,000,000 copies sold, and it is
being used in more than 5,000 hospitals, nursing homes, faith communities
and hospice programs nationwide. His second booklet, Light in the Shadows:
Meditations While Living with a Life-Threatening Illness, was released in
its second edition in 2005. This is a collection of reflections on the
emotional and spiritual concerns at the end of life.

He enjoys backpacking, biking, hiking, fly fishing, kayaking and life
in general.

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One's in Spanish http://www.hardchoices.com/
Decisiones Difíciles para los Seres Queridos, Cuarta edición:
("Hard Choices for Loving People," Fourth Edition, in Spanish)