Walking A Friend Home
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley May 27, 2025
Author Kathy Arnos
Distributor: Amazon
ISBN: 978-0972578318
Publisher: Spirit Dance Publishing
Release Date: 17 September 2025
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A Practical Guide To Consciously Living & Dying
There are three words in the English language that apply to everyone, Birth, Life and Death. Simple words but also very powerful as the sequence we live on this earth applies equally to everyone.
Some journeys are short; days, hours or even weeks, while others live longer than ever before. But, as with all things considered as delicate areas to discuss, the eventual end of life or death, is seldom planned for or even discussed with family and friends, which often makes things very difficult.
Kathy Arnos has spent much of her adult life ‘walking’ with people facing their final days or weeks or moments on this earth and understands deeply the vulnerability felt by everyone when faced with death.
Over these many years she has come to understand the value of planning for your end-of-life experience before it is far too late and the relief it can bring to close family and friends when they understand what you would like and why.
It is a given that death, and grief, will occur in your life. It is also a fact that many people will face this final moment alone. She advocates that by having an honest and open conversation about death, yours, or someone else’s, you will have a far greater sense of belonging and connection, allowing the person in eventual transition to depart with a sense of completion.
In Walking a Friend Home, she gently removes the many ‘western’ barriers that make the end-of-life discussion difficult, replacing them with gentle guidelines to help begin the conversation when it is required.
Using her personal experience and that of friends, she reaches out with love and understanding to encourage everyone to have the courage to discuss what will be their or your final moments.
Not a sad book, but one filled with a vast array of wonderful material and information, along with stories of many friends in transition, if you have not already had the conversation, after reading Walking a Friend Home you will feel well equipped to discuss and plan your final hurrah on this earth; whenever it will occur.