Shared Crossing

This is the story of the end-of-life journey shared by the author with her mother and family in terms of caregiving and accompanying the dying – with background experience in William Peters' work on shared crossings. As Deborah writes, confronting death touches into life's deepest mysteries, and readers are taken through a biographical story of her mother's gradual decline with shifting roles and relationships within a circle of love. Towards the end, she and her mother seem to be in a luminous bubble, connecting at a deeper level as she prepared to depart: 'Our journey felt somehow complete.' Deborah reflects that 'there is no perfect death, only the best choices we can make on the moment.' Sometimes we simply need to be open in the present. A reflective and touching memoir.