| Introduction | ix |
| Opening to Grief: Dorothy, Mother of Dying Child | 1 |
| Allowing Death: Doris, Daughter of Dying Mother | 7 |
| Forgiveness as Healing: Cassie, Cancer Patient | 14 |
| Healing into Grief: Karen, Mother of Drowned Child | 24 |
| Attending a Dying Parent: Tom, Son of Dying Father | 37 |
| The Only Work We Have to Do Is on Ourselves: Nancy, Therapist of Suicidal Patient | 44 |
| Once Healed, Now What? Kelly, Cancer Patient | 53 |
| Even Pain Is Workable: Anonymous, Cancer Patient | 61 |
| Resolving Death: Gail, Nurse to Dying Friend | 71 |
| A Teaching in Surrender: Lobellia, Cancer Patient | 78 |
| Opening the Heart in Hell: Marcia, Mother of Murdered Child | 91 |
| Healing into the World: Anthony, Cancer Patient | 100 |
| Who Dies? Stan, Cancer Patient | 109 |
| Losing Life, Choosing Death: Evelyn, ALS patient | 126 |
| Coming Home to Die: Robert, Husband of Dying Wife | 145 |
| The Light Reflected in Three Faces: A Day in the Hospital, Three Dying Patients | 154 |
| A Confusing Grace: Mary, Cancer Patient | 165 |
| A Deeper Pain than Dying: Kathy, Cancer Patient | 180 |
| The Intense Work of Healing: Gerri, Cancer Patient | 190 |
| Listening to the Heart of the Matter: Working with Comatose Patients | 200 |
| No One Can Die Your Death for You: Maggie, Therapist | 212 |
| Surrendering the Heart: Rena, Cancer Patient | 223 |
| When We Let Go of Everything, Only Love Remains Martine, Cancer Patient | 243 |