Last Wishes: Lessons From the Dying on Living

Death can teach us how to better live our lives.
Last Wishes: Lessons From the Dying on Living
A hospice nurse said that observing older couples increased her faith that long marriages can be "loving and kindly." Biba Kayewich
Jeff Minick
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“What I wish for ...” my mother said. She repeated, “What I wish for ...”

Those were her last words, spoken from the basement of consciousness. A few hours later, Mom was gone.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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