Dessert First: Preparing For Death While Savoring Life

Dana Trent has accompanied hundreds of people and their families on the journey from life to death. Dessert First gathers stories from Trent's year as a "death chaplain" and her sojourn as a devoted daughter walking with her dying mom. Trent's deeply personal, touching, and often humorous look at the ways we cope and create meaning for the inevitable end of life will change the way you think about dying, death, and grief-and how you live now. Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. Book jacket.Read less