In Beauty - A Quaker Approach to End-of-Life Care

This pamphlet reflects Kirsten’s process of seeking the interconnectedness among the different paths in her own spiritual landscape; the immediate, true-to-the heart experience of working with the dying; the sense of shared awe and ordinary life in a Quaker community and meeting for worship; the intimate intensity of encountering her own possible death through illness; the wonder and simplicity of home and family with her partner, Holly Jarvis; and the prayer for meaning in the midst of all the confusing love and loss that makes up life. Where do these paths come together? How does a person “walk in beauty” throughout life and up to death? For Kirsten, writing this pamphlet was as a way of walking, seeking for the beauty and wholeness – on many paths, on one path.