Life for All the Remaining Life: A Human Handbook
3 hrs. 43 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Collection
Author
Collection
Narrator
Semyon Mendelson
Narrator
Irina Patrakova
Narrator
Marina Titova
Description
This is an unusual audiobook. Employees of the “Vera” Charity Foundation carefully collected and prepared for publication the stories of hospice patients to show that because of a serious illness, a person’s life doesn’t stop, and life remains possible for the rest of their remaining time.
“Exactly in the hospice, when you stop running and give yourself time to love, to pity, and to forgive—exactly here, every little thing becomes so important and so noticeable. Exactly here you understand that happiness is made of little things” (Nuta Federmessier). Listen, look for answers to difficult questions, try to notice life around you and feel what this audiobook was made for— the chance for happiness here and now. I’m sure that helping others is a good thing in every way: you yourself feel a bit better when you manage to help someone. Try it and see!
I talked about this with my late friend Vera Millionshchikova, who organized the First Moscow hospice. This is a difficult life task—to work in a hospice: not everyone can handle it. But in the end, there are those who can.
However, in a hospice it isn’t obligatory to work there—you can help it in other ways too.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya, a member of the Board of Trustees of the “Vera” Charity Foundation for Hospice Assistance… Nuta Federmessier, daughter of Vera Millionshchikova, founder of the “Vera” hospice assistance fund, took people around to show “a wonder of wonders”: people greet each other kindly, there is no gloom, no false sorrow, no meaningful silence. As if I had come to a jazz club. Flowers bloom, dogs live with their owners, the kitchen works 24 hours a day. If someone wants ice cream, they run out and buy it. I realized it’s almost paradise. But I decided to ask: “Nuta, do miracles happen here?” Nuta says: “There are. Come with me, I’ll show you.”
Tatyana Drubich, co-chair of the Board of Trustees of the “Vera” Charity Foundation for Hospice Assistance… “We talk about quality of life, we emphasize that the hospice is about life. Every person has a point of departure—an unquestionable fact, we all will leave. As Camus said, it’s a question only of time and patience. Why should the last days of a person be worse than all their life? Now, finally, a law has been adopted that we have the right to pain relief, we have the right to care without pain. Probably one of the most important things in the hospice is the attitude of staff and volunteers toward patients and their relatives.”
Ingeborga Dapkunaite, co-chair of the Board of Trustees of the “Vera” Charity Foundation for Hospice Assistance
“Exactly in the hospice, when you stop running and give yourself time to love, to pity, and to forgive—exactly here, every little thing becomes so important and so noticeable. Exactly here you understand that happiness is made of little things” (Nuta Federmessier). Listen, look for answers to difficult questions, try to notice life around you and feel what this audiobook was made for— the chance for happiness here and now. I’m sure that helping others is a good thing in every way: you yourself feel a bit better when you manage to help someone. Try it and see!
I talked about this with my late friend Vera Millionshchikova, who organized the First Moscow hospice. This is a difficult life task—to work in a hospice: not everyone can handle it. But in the end, there are those who can.
However, in a hospice it isn’t obligatory to work there—you can help it in other ways too.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya, a member of the Board of Trustees of the “Vera” Charity Foundation for Hospice Assistance… Nuta Federmessier, daughter of Vera Millionshchikova, founder of the “Vera” hospice assistance fund, took people around to show “a wonder of wonders”: people greet each other kindly, there is no gloom, no false sorrow, no meaningful silence. As if I had come to a jazz club. Flowers bloom, dogs live with their owners, the kitchen works 24 hours a day. If someone wants ice cream, they run out and buy it. I realized it’s almost paradise. But I decided to ask: “Nuta, do miracles happen here?” Nuta says: “There are. Come with me, I’ll show you.”
Tatyana Drubich, co-chair of the Board of Trustees of the “Vera” Charity Foundation for Hospice Assistance… “We talk about quality of life, we emphasize that the hospice is about life. Every person has a point of departure—an unquestionable fact, we all will leave. As Camus said, it’s a question only of time and patience. Why should the last days of a person be worse than all their life? Now, finally, a law has been adopted that we have the right to pain relief, we have the right to care without pain. Probably one of the most important things in the hospice is the attitude of staff and volunteers toward patients and their relatives.”
Ingeborga Dapkunaite, co-chair of the Board of Trustees of the “Vera” Charity Foundation for Hospice Assistance
