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On Being Mortal
Reader’s Poem: Being Mortal Death is not failure. Death is normal. Sooner or later independence will become impossible. Medicine has transformed life into a long, slow fade. The trouble is we expect...
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Just a Couple of Old People Holding Hands
“Just a Couple of Old People Holding Hands” A Memoir of a Marriage in Alzheimer’s World Forecast for Winter By Carl Smith (2009) You...
View ArticleMP who co-chairs assisted dying committee brings uncommon perspective
Forging a right-to-die law to make assisted death both accessible and safe from abuse will be the paramount order of business facing the new Liberal-dominated House of Commons when Parliament resumes...
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‘Good’ and ‘bad’ deaths in interviews with hospice managers
To celebrate four years of the EAPC Blog, we’re delighted to re-publish one of our all-time most popular posts from Elena Semino, Veronika Koller, Lancaster University, and Zsófia Demjén, The Open...
View ArticleProvide variety of options for end-of-life patients including palliative care...
In his Jan. 11 commentary, Dr. Lawrence Clein presented palliative care services and physician-assisted dying as being an either/or proposition. I believe that “and” is the more appropriate...
View ArticleB.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons releases guidelines on assisted suicide
Last year, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Criminal Code provisions that prohibited physician-assisted dying, thus opening the door to assisted suicide in Canada. Not surprisingly, it’s been a...
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An RN's View From the Front Lines of Care
When her children were young, Theresa Brown, RN, made a mid-career change: from English professor at Tufts University to nursing, and chose to specialize in medical oncology. We should all be glad she...
View ArticleTravelling physicians could provide assisted death in remote areas, committee...
Special travelling teams of doctors could deliver physician-assisted death to the country’s remote regions, guaranteeing northerners and others in isolation access to the right to die, parliamentarians...
View ArticleSoul Midwives: Giving your loved ones a Dignified Death
Soul midwives are trained companions who give holistic and intense care to patients who are at their final stages of life. End of life care is a moving and sacred experience that has a positive effect...
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Of a certain age... (originally published 1/13/16)
by Diane Goble What does “retirement” mean? It suggests calling it quits, packing it in, withdrawing, falling back. Nothing in there about a new beginning, the realization that there’s more to life...
View ArticleWhat happens when a friend is dying
Intercessory prayer is it for you? I was extremely moved by today’s devotional by Blackaby called, “
View ArticleSadder of the Two
No one would believe you once danced… held rooms full of eyes locked, entranced. I was one of them, and see you still spinning like you just drank from the spring of Life. Your sister and I shared a...
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When I die
When I die I’m not afraid I’ll drown. I’ve swum these waters before. There’s always an outlet. No. What I’m afraid of Is trying to keep my bearings My head above water My sight of the land where I want...
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My Life In Bowie Years
I can’t yet wrap it around my head that David Bowie has really left us. The unbelievable news of his death on January 10, 2016 stunned my rock ‘n’ roll soul with 10000 volts. David Bowie was a huge...
View ArticleLessons from Ann ( a hospice nurse story)
Soothed by gratitude the thinning edges of life take on new meaning The small cottage is tucked behind a large framed house in an older neighborhood. The walkway is curved and lined with flowers. I...
View ArticleImbolc, Cancer, and Hope
Imbolc is my most favorite of the pagan holidays. It comes after the winter solstice and before the spring equinox and assures us that the sun has indeed come back, which is a very good thing, a cause...
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STAR WARS KILLED MY STEPSON
Yes, I know, this sounds very dramatic But, it began with him standing in the cold Waiting to get in the theater, then being in that theater With no immune system functioning, destroyed by the chemo...
View ArticleSocial Model Hospice Homes Can Revolutionize EOL Care with Mitcheal Metzner, PhD
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View ArticleWitnesses diametrically opposed in testimony before committee on assisted death
A hopeless chasm opened Monday at the feet of the parliamentarians hurrying to embody the right to die in federal law. Grace Pastine of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and Jay Cameron...
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