Cathleen Fanslow-Brunjes’ ?Hope System,” which incorporates the four stages of hope, is a proven program that has helped more than 40,000 dying individuals at all stages of the dying process. This powerful and simple system enables families, friends, and professional caregivers to understand and assist the dying on their journey. Fanslow-Brunjes shows the reader?both the living and the dying?how to use the power of hope to cope with the inevitable. Offering practical advice in a way readers will be able to use regardless of their beliefs, Using the Power of Hope to Cope with Dying addresses all levels of the experience?physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Fanslow-Brunjes is an internationally acclaimed expert in the fields of death, dying, grief, and hospice care. Fanslow-Brunjes developed the ?Standards of Care for the Dying Patient” program used throughout the United States Veterans Administration hospital system and the ?Standards for Nursing Practice for the Care of the Dying” program used statewide in New York.