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Copyright © 2016 by Kerry Egan
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The chapters “The Crucible of Love” and “If I Had Only Known, I Would Have Danced More” originally appeared, in somewhat different form, on CNN.com, as “My Faith: What People Talk About When They Die” and “What the Dying Really Regret”; they are reprinted here courtesy of CNN.
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Ebook ISBN: 9780698409323
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Egan, Kerry, author.
Title: On living / Kerry Egan.
Description: New York : Riverhead Books, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016026365 | ISBN 9781594634819 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Conduct of life. | Life. | Death. | Spiritual life. |
Terminally ill. | Church work with the terminally ill. | BISAC: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth. | RELIGION / Spirituality. |
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Healing / Prayer & Spiritual.
Classification: LCC BJ1589 .E395 2016 | DDC 170/.44—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016026365
This is a work of nonfiction based upon the author’s experiences as a chaplain working with the dying. Names and certain identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals described.