YOU MEAN I HAVE TO LOOK AT THE BODY?!
Stories of Dying and Living
by Marcia M. Cham
BookSurge Publishing
www.booksurge.com
ISBN: 9781439204030
Paperback, 260 pages, $16.99
Genre: Autobiographical

Marcia Cham is a retired pastor who presently works as an on-call chaplain at a medical center near her home in North Carolina. As pastor, Ms. Cham has officiated at funerals while providing comfort to family and friends of the deceased. She has dealt with a plethora of deaths, from babies to friends to her own family, all the while trying to deal with her own questions about and fear of death.

This book is Cham’s journey as she seeks to face her fears so she can put them aside while serving others. Cham’s witty style and heartwarming stories are not only entertaining but endearing. She shows an amazing propensity to draw the reader into her story so that the reader feels her pain, shares her grief, and rejoices with her love for life and God. She offers her reader insightful advice regarding how to help someone who is grieving the death of a loved one and shares letters she has written to her family about her own death. An incredible book that should be shared with family and friends, one that will encourage discussion about a subject that is often put aside and rarely talked about: death.