Abstract
Pastoral care is focused on understanding the needs of the individual in the face of death, explaining death and dying in the light of religious teaching, and providing the believer with a solution or at least a sense of direction. In the care setting, it is always interesting to observe who, in this respect, ends up to be the “spiritual buddy” of the patient. But one of the shortcomings of religion is that they reach out for what lies beyond death and thereby they tend to relativize the phase in one’s life that leads up to the moment of death. “The Healing Touch of Awareness: A Buddhist Perspective on Death, Dying, Pastoral Care” by Ledoux moves the reader to a Buddhist viewpoint that is often recognized in Western publications. Adams and Csiernik, in “An Exploratory Study of the Spirituality of Clergy as Compared with Health Care Professionals,” is a study of 149 health care professionals in a Canadian city hospital.
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