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Prepare Your Response Plan for Grief Triggers
Harriet Hodgson
March 9, 2010 – 1:14 am | No Comment

Grief triggers – your deceased loved one’s birthday, the anniversary of your loss, and holiday festivities – are a recovery challenge. How will you respond? Will you continue to move forward with life or will …

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About Nancy Manahan & Becky Bohan

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Dr. Nancy Manahan, Ph.D., is a community college English teacher, now retired. Becky Bohan, M.A., is the retired Vice-President of Knowledge Design and Delivery, a training consulting company. Nancy and Becky both received undergraduate degrees in English from the University of Minnesota. They have published four previous books. Living Consciously, Dying Gracefully: A Journey with Cancer and Beyond is the unforgettable, inspiring story of the authors’ sister-in-law, a professor of nursing diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at 55. It reveals Diane’s moving home death, her unusual family-directed green funeral, and astonishing after-death communications. The book has won seven regional and national awards, including the prestigious Eric Hoffer Award and the 2008 Midwest Book Award. The authors give presentations to hospices, churches, colleges, and holistic medicine groups. They make their home in Minneapolis. For more information, visit nanbec.com.


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An Unusual Cremation

August 21, 2009 – 2:40 pm | No Comment

In the last Open to Hope posting, “Sacred Moments with the Body after the Death,” Becky Bohan described the home-visitation after her sister-in-law’s death from breast cancer. For four hours, family members and friends bid …

Grief Film Review: ‘Departures’

August 21, 2009 – 2:23 pm | No Comment

We recommend “Departures,” the 2009 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, currently in theaters. “Departures” is a moving, inspiring glimpse into Japan’s cultural heritage of caring for a body after death.
When a young cellist …

Sacred Moments With the Body After the Death

April 27, 2009 – 1:58 am | No Comment

By Nancy Manahan, Ph.D., and Becky Bohan. M.A. –
In their last Open to Hope posting, “Washing Diane’s Body: Caring at the Crossroad,” Nancy described the extraordinary ritual of washing Diane’s body. In this installment, Nancy’s …

Washing Diane’s Body: Caring at the Crossing

March 14, 2009 – 1:12 am | 2 Comments

By Nancy Manahan, Ph.D., and Becky Bohan. M.A. –
In our last Open to Hope posting, the extraordinary final moments of Diane’s death in Nancy’s arms were described. Here, Nancy recounts what happened immediately after Diane …

Home Free: The Dying Moment

December 13, 2008 – 2:02 am | No Comment

By Nancy Manahan and Becky Bohan –