Forrest Church: Graceful to the End

A quest to live a good life.

from: AARP, October 2009

The Rev. Forrest Church—Frank Forrester Church IV by birth—spent much of his adult life thinking about regret, love, rejection, family, death, and the afterlife. As part of his pastoral duties at the Unitarian Church of All Souls on New York's Upper East Side, he counseled countless parishioners facing death or other severe life crises. … Back to Article

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A Good Life to the End

When Reverend Forrest Church was diagnosed three years ago with terminal cancer, he decided to go public with his imminent "progress" toward death. His hope was to help others find their way to a "good death," if that was possible, as he had counseled others to do for more than 30 years as a Unitarian minister. More

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