COMING SOON
Dying Truth
What Happens and What Helps
The insider knowledge families need before crisis strikes—from a hospice social worker who has guided hundreds through end-of-life care.
“Why didn’t anyone tell me this sooner?”
Death never happens to just one person.
It reshapes entire family systems. Yet most families navigate end-of-life care without the information they desperately need—discovering too late what they wished they’d known.
This book changes that.
What This Book Offers
Stories that illuminate the journey and guidance that empowers you to navigate it
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Seven Stories
Composite narratives drawn from hundreds of hospice cases—showing every pattern of dying, from planned exits to impossible choices.
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Seventeen Chapters of Guidance
Practical tools for navigating healthcare systems, family dynamics, and decisions you never rehearsed.
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The Whole Family
Written from the social worker’s perspective—focused not just on the patient, but on everyone being reshaped by loss.
The Insider Knowledge You Need
What healthcare professionals know but rarely have time to explain
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System Navigation
How healthcare actually works—and how to advocate when it doesn’t
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Scripts & Language
Exact words for the conversations no one teaches you to have
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Family Dynamics
Managing conflict, guilt, and impossible decisions together
About the Author
Elise Luce
LMSW, ACHP-SW, MBA
A hospice social worker who has guided hundreds of families through end-of-life care—the one who stays in the room when everyone else moves on.
She left clinical practice to write this book after hearing one question too many times: “Why didn’t anyone tell me this sooner?”
“The physician focuses on the body. The nurse focuses on comfort. The chaplain focuses on the spirit. The social worker focuses on everything else—the family dynamics, the impossible decisions, the system that wasn’t designed for this moment.”
— Elise Luce
Who This Book Is For
Families in Crisis
If you’re navigating end-of-life care right now, this book offers immediate, practical guidance—specific scripts, decision frameworks, and insider knowledge about how to advocate within healthcare systems.
Those Planning Ahead
If you want to be prepared before crisis strikes, the stories and guidance will help you understand what’s coming, have conversations now, and know what questions to ask when the time comes.
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