Part I. Personal Perspectives -- A personal odyssey : experiencing the human / Peter H. Beisheim -- A crisis / Judith Best -- The impact of the death of patients on the minister's (chaplain's) faith / John M. Humphreys -- Vignette / Zelda Foster -- To write about death, we must contemplate our own death / Cima Star -- Response to the threat of death, immediate and/or postponed / Carroll A. Wise…