No one has to die alone: preparing for a meaningful death - lani leary

Leary, Lani: - Dr.

Lani Leary has over twenty-five years of experience as a psychotherapist working with chronically ill, dying, and bereaved clients.

She served as the director of mental health services at Whitman Walker AIDS clinic, as a professor of Death Studies at George Mason University, and as a researcher at the National Cancer Institute of NIH.

Leary also garners wisdom from her personal experience--her mothers death when she was a child, her fathers death from cancer, her own profound near-death experience--and has sat with over 500 people as they died.

Leary has spoken nationally at over 250 conferences, writes a bereavement column for www.

healingthespirit.

org, and is the author of Healing Hands an international, bestselling audiotape on therapeutic touch and pain management.