Michael Kearney

Mortally Wounded

Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing

176 pages, ISBN 1-882670-79-5 / 978-1-882670-79-6, Spring Journal

What makes for a good death? In Mortally Wounded, a best-seller in Ireland where it was first published, Dr. Michael Kearney reflects upon his experiences working with the dying and shows us that it possible to learn to die well, overcoming our fears and soul pain and accepting death as an integral part of life.
Careful attention to spiritual health, Kearney urges, is an essential complement to physical or outer care. Inner or "depth" work can, he believes, enables us to find our "own way through the prison of soul pain to a place of greater wholeness, a new depth of living, and a falling away of fear."