Archives Online at Indiana University

Physical Description

18 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 40 minutes; index

Interviewer
Granbois, Judith A.

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Chris Lindley, a minister and school teacher, discusses the deaths of his grandparents and his reaction to them. He discusses ministering to the terminally ill and their families. Lindley acknowledges the patient's fears of pain, loss of control of their bodies, and the high cost of medical care, as well as a growing quest for immortality. He also shares that the church becomes a source of support for mourning families and the ill even if it has not been part of their lives otherwise.

• Keywords
• • Corporation Names
  • Indiana University
  • Religious Society of Friends
• • Occupation Names
  • minister
  • teacher
• • Place Names
  • Paoli, Indiana
• • Subjects
  • elderly death
  • estate division
  • funeral preparations
  • good death
  • grieving process
  • hospital bills
  • living wills
  • medical interventions
  • nursing home care
  • pain management
  • physician-patient relationship
  • Quakerism
  • religion