![]() ![]() To hold the space is to create a ring of safety around the family and friends of the dead, providing a place where they can grieve openly and honestly, without fear of being judged. Holding the space is crucial, and exactly what we are missing. Norton & Company Release 03 October 2017 Subjects Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. With my secular bias, "holding the space" sounded like saccharine hippie lingo. From Here to Eternity ebook Traveling the World to Find the Good Death By Caitlin Doughty Read a Sample Format ebook ISBN 9780393356281 Author Caitlin Doughty Publisher W. Nine years ago, when I began working with the dead, I heard other practitioners speak about holding the space for the dying person and their family. It is the responsibility of those who have been tasked with creating physical and emotional environments where safe, open interaction with death and dead bodies is possible. Death acceptance is the responsibility of all death professionals-funeral directors, cemetery managers, hospital workers. It is far too challenging to expect that each citizen will do so on his or her own. Facing death is not for the faint-hearted. “Death avoidance is not an individual failing it's a cultural one. ![]()
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