David Kessler recounts meeting Mother Teresa and what she taught him about caring for the dying. She believed the dying need tender loving care, and despite spending her life around death, she was joyful, not morose. Kessler urges people to stop fearing the subject.
And I walked in and they led me to her. And it's like, there she was. Well, it was more like there she was because she is this big talk about power in a small package. And we got a chance to sit down and talk about her dying and about dying in general. And I said to her, we have so many resources in my country, and you have so few. How do you do it? And she looked at me almost like silly boy. She said, the dying need tender loving care. Nothing more.
Tell people not to be afraid of the dying. And one of the things that we think about, and certainly that radio host thought about reading my book, is that if we read a book like this, if we're around someone who's dying, if we explore this subject, we're going to become very sad and very morbid, and we're going to wear black all the time, and we're just going to suddenly wake up in the middle of the Addams Family. Well, it's not like that. And if you think about it, if.
Dying and exploring the subject, not losing someone, but just exploring the subject or being with someone made us sad, wouldn't you think that Mother Teresa would have to be the saddest woman in the world? And yet she was the happiest I'd ever met.
