But If Not: Enduring Loss, Illness, and Death - Volume 2

Drawn from the Ashtons' own losses—including two children—and their careers in hospice and LDS Family Services, But If Not, Volume II offers compassionate, practical, and spiritual guidance for facing disability, chronic and mental illness, terminal diagnosis, and death. Blending scripture, prophetic counsel, clinical insight, and personal story, it validates grief, explains end-of-life realities, warns against hurtful clichés, and points readers toward comfort in the Atonement and the hope of resurrection. A tender companion for sufferers, caregivers, and those who minister to them.

• Written by a hospice nurse and an LDS Family Services clinician who buried two of their own children
• Names the well-meaning clichés that wound the grieving—and gives you better words to say
• Bridges clinical hospice knowledge with gospel hope and the doctrine of resurrection
• Addresses the hardest losses openly: suicide, murder, war, and disaster

“I understood more fully how the Lord, without removing our trials, can comfort and carry us through them.”

Perfect for a Latter-day Saint facing a terminal diagnosis, caring for a disabled or ill family member, or grieving the death of a loved one, who wants both practical hospice knowledge and gospel-centered comfort.