The Firefly Project: Conversations about what it means to be alive
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The Firefly Project: Conversations about what it means to be alive, presents true dialogues about living and dying, hopes and dreams, grief and loss. These stories show human beings connecting through the old-fashioned art of letter-writing. Adults with life-threatening illnesses move beyond ideas of themselves as ill or disabled, and discover they have much to give back. Their correspondents – teenagers and medical students, none of whom have yet met their pen pals in person – discover empathy and find time to focus on others rather than exclusively their own thoughts and concerns, grappling with difficult questions about patients’ experiences. The Firefly Project has become a repository of intergenerational dialogues full of rare and compassionate insights into the meaning of life, illness, and death.
Details
- Publication Date
- Jun 7, 2013
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780988986503
- Category
- Parenting & Families
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Cynthia D. Perlis
Specifications
- Pages
- 322
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Letter (8.5 x 11 in / 216 x 279 mm)