Barbara Karnes and Demedicalizing Dying

AUSTIN, Texas - June 23, 2015 - PRLog -- Barbara Karnes has been in the "making dying better for people" movement since the beginning since hospice first came on the scene in the USA.

If you have had any experience with hospice at all in the last 25 years, you have probably been given the "little blue book," which she wrote to help families understand what is going on in those final days.

She has seen the evolution of the hospice movement from the beginning and has seen what is working and what is not. We have a very frank discussion in this episode of how the new wave of death awareness may fit in to help fix the weak areas in our present system.

Listen to this week's podcast here => http://journeypodcast.com/barbara-karnes-and-demedicalizing-dying

Barbara Karnes' website => https://www.bkbooks.com/

About Barbara Karnes:

Barbara Karnes is a Registered Nurse and author who noticed, after her experience at the bedside of hundreds of people before they died, that each death she witnessed was following an almost identical script. Each person was going through the stages of death in almost the same manner. And most families had the same questions.

It was after these realizations that Barbara sat down and wrote the Little Blue Book (https://www.bkbooks.com/shop/gone-my-sight-dying-experience) that changed an industry.

Gone From My Sight (https://www.bkbooks.com/shop/gone-my-sight-dying-experience), which takes its name from the poem to which it alludes, has been in print continuously since 1985 and has sold over eight million copies. It has been co-opted and copied and imitated even as Barbara Karnes continues to publish and travel the world giving lectures. It is the original source. With its publication and distribution, Barbara has been instrumental in creating one of the most important tools in the Hospice movement today: the patient/family educational booklet.

Just released, Barbara’s Telly Award winning New Rules for End of Life Care Kit (https://www.bkbooks.com/shop/new-rules-end-life-care-guid...) includes a 25 minute artistic, emotion invoking DVD which explains to professionals AND families how caring for someone at the end of their life is different than caring for someone who is going to get better. The kit includes Gone From My Sight (https://www.bkbooks.com/shop/gone-my-sight-dying-experience) and The Eleventh Hour (https://www.bkbooks.com/shop/eleventh-hour-caring-guideline-hours-minutes-death): A Caring Guideline for the Hours to Minutes Before Death.