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Phyllis
Langton has had as illustrious a career as anyone in academia, but she has
taken infinite pains now to write a different kind of book. Her story of her
husband's life with and death from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) yields many a
valuable lesson. . . . Here love and mortality, laughter and sorrow are all but
inseparable, and their inseparability may help lessen a reader's fear of death
and dying. Anyone who enjoys a deeply moving story will want to read this
wondrous, indispensable book, and anybody who faces adversity, that is to say,
everybody will need to read it.
Jeffery Paine, author of Father India,
Re-enchantment, Adventures with the Buddha,
and Tales of Wonder.
Who
would have thought that disease can be a page-turner? But Phyllis Langton's bittersweet memoir of her fighter-pilot husband's last years shows that a good
marriage can be as joyous in sickness as it is in health.
Mark Weston, author
of Giants of Japan.
In
my 28 years as a healthcare chaplain I have observed the journey toward death
Phyllis Langton portrays in Last Flight Out. But I am a professional who only sees those brief moments
I am at the hospital or nursing home bedside or visiting in someone's home.
Langton invites us into her life with her husband George as he moves through
increasing disability to his final breaths. It is moving and, in my view,
honest.
Chaplain Hank Dunn, author of Hard Choices for Loving People.
I
couldn't put Last Flight Out down. . .
. What an incredible message to read especially with a disease that takes and
takes.
Sharon J. Matland, R.N., M.B.A., V.P. Patient Services, ALS
Association
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