First Place CIPA EVVY Award winner for autobiography/memoir As the body gets weaker the spirit gets stronger Linda Kinnamon repeatedly tells her patients. Being a hospice nurse she spends her days caring for and visiting the terminally ill. But in the pre-dawn hours as her patients near death they occasionally pay her a visit instead. Whether it s perfume drifting through a room or a touch on the shoulder the strength of spirit displayed at the end of life is as unique as the individual. Alchemy of the Afterlife is a memoir of life AFTER death based on Linda s childhood as an orphan combined with her adult experiences as a hospice nurse. These encounters reveal both a glimmer of heaven and a flash of hell. This is a child s story about surviving abuse and neglect only to be comforted by a visit from her mother a visit that took place four years after her mother s death. It s a nurse s story about patients of all beliefs and their evolution from life to afterlife minus the harps and halos. Most of all it s an uplifting and universal story of the golden transformation we will all experience at death a transformation with the heart of pure love.