Maynooth College Reflects on Facing Life's End

Perspectives on Dying and Death
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-78812-582-6
Verlag: Messenger Publications

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 141 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

This volume of essays adopts a multi-faceted approach to questions surrounding dying and death. It features contributions from those working within the areas of palliative care, healthcare chaplaincy, philosophy, and theology. Among the topics covered are: the transformative power of palliative care; spiritual care at the end of life; a philosophical perspective on dying, death, and dignity; prudential judgment in end-of-life decision making; perinatal death; compassionate accompaniment of the bereaved; honoring the sacred story of the dying; reflecting on the Order of Christian Funerals; scriptural perspectives on mortality; the significance of music in the funeral liturgy; how the afterlife has been imagined within the Christian tradition; and the ‘liturgy’ of the Irish Wake.  

 

With questions for further discussion and reflection at the end of each chapter, all who wish to think more deeply about issues surrounding dying, death, and the care of the terminally ill, will find this collection timely and thought-provoking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corley, Jeremy

McGrath, Aoife

O'Donoghue, Neil Xavier

Ryan, Salvador

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Soziallehre und Sozialethik, Pastoral und Seelsorge

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Archbishop Dermot Farrell. 9

Introduction - Jeremy Corley, Aoife McGrath, Neil Xavier O’Donoghue and Salvador Ryan. 13

One: Facing with Care

1. Spiritual Care at End of Life –

Lessons from the Bedside - April MacNeill. 25

2. An Approach to the Challenge

of Dying and Death - Brendan Corkery. 35

3. The Power of Story in

Accompanying People towards the End of Life - Anne Francis. 47

4. Love in the Pastoral and

Professional Care of the Dying - Chris Hayden. 58

5. Facing Life’s End:

Th e Transformative Power of Palliative Care - Sinéad Donnelly. 67

6. Th e Art of Dying Well - Michael Shortall. 77

Two: Facing Goodbye

7. Memento Mori: Reflecting on the Music of My Own Death - Salvador Ryan. 87

8. Tea, Scones and Stories –the Liturgy of an Irish Wake - Bairbre Cahill. 98

9. What Happens when We Die?

Reflections on the Order of Christian Funerals - Liam M. Tracey OSM. 107

10. Children and Death - John-Paul Sheridan. 116

Three: Facing Challenging Questions

11. Scriptural Perspectives on Our Mortality - Jeremy Corley. 129

12. Perinatal Death: Complex and

Nuanced Life, Love and Loss - Daniel Nuzum. 140

13. The Role of Prudential

Judgements in End-of-Life Decision-Making - Pádraig Corkery. 150

14. Death, Dying and Dignity:

A Philosophical Perspective - Gaven Kerr. 161

15. Being’s Mystery: On Not

Belonging to Ourselves Philip - John Paul Gonzales. 170

Four: Facing Suffering with Hope

16. Raising the Victim of the Good Samaritan Parable:

A Scriptural Reflection - Luke Macnamara OSB. 179

17. The Sacrament of the Sick and

Its Role in a Christian’s Sickness - Neil Xavier O’Donoghue. 190

18. ‘Go Forth, Christian Soul, from this World’: A Theological

Commentary on the Proficiscere - Andrew Meszaros. 200

19. From Death to Eternal Happiness - Thomas G. Casey SJ. 213

20. Facing Life’s End: The Life of the World to Come - Declan Marmion SM. 223

Frequently Cited Sources. 235

List of Contributors. 237

Select Index. 239

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan, Salvador
Salvador Ryan is a native of Moneygall, County Offaly. He is professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, and has published widely on popular religious culture from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. A frequent speaker and media contributor, recent publications include Marriage and the Irish: a Miscellany (Wordwell Press, 2019), Models of Priestly Formation: Assessing the Past, Reflecting on the Present and Imagining the Future (Liturgical Press, 2019), and The Cultural Reception of the Bible: Explorations in Theology, Literature and the Arts (Four Courts Press, 2018). His Birth and the Irish: a Miscellany will appear in 2021.

Jeremy Corley, Aoife McGrath, Neil-Xavier O’Donoghue, and Salvador Ryan are faculty members at Maynooth Pontifical University.