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Debt after death?
Who is responsible for my parent’s credit card debt, mortgage and other outstanding financial obligations when my parent’s die? Many of us boomers are finding ourselves functioning in a role as a...
View ArticleDeath Takes the Stage: The Death Monologues with Giselle Suarez
https://lessonsfromdying.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/podcastsuarez.mp3 Join Dr. Karen Wyatt and her special guest, actress Giselle Suarez, for a conversation about THE DEATH MONOLOGUES, a unique...
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An Artful Way to Teach About Hospice
Not everyone understands what hospice care is, or what hospice care teams – physicians, nurses, home health aides, social workers, chaplains and volunteers – actually do. Not only for people who are...
View ArticleRevisiting Sabbath Sloth
Today I couldn’t help noticing that three people viewed my June 2015 post on Sabbath Sloth. That mad
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Life, Loss and Landscapes
“My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget.” Devin Dygert We lost mom on January 31st after a 2 year battle with...
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The Great Pool
http://madamepickwickartblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/gibeon1.jpg Ishmael made captives of all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah—the king’s daughters along with all the others who were...
View ArticleWe all need this.
The Good Word for Sunday February 28th ~ for the complete readings click here. If you have kids you’ve probably been asked this question, “Do you really ‘need’ that thing, or do you ‘want’ it?” If you...
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The Invitation to Feel More
From the grief of this year rose gratitude. A deep gratitude for my life, for human connection (however brief), for the bond with light and plants and trees and air, with animals, for the hard work and...
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New Beginnings
Do you want to share your feelings of grief, heartbreak and sadness after the loss of a loved one, but can not do it face to face with a fellow human being?This blog’s purpose is to create a space...
View ArticleGormley: Determining whose suffering counts
If a man is so tormented by his own mind that he kills himself, he might be forgiven for abandoning his loved ones to their grief, and for imagining that they will feel none. The government that helps...
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blade sting
https://maxadaland.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/blade-sting.mp3 we near death are not yet as pocket lint…soft gray felting re-mem-brance instead… we are crisp ironed alpine forest spice thread...
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A Tree Stands Witness
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let bitterness steal your sweetness.” – Kurt Vonnegut Three generations of the Stief family reside at the Rockvale...
View ArticleHome funerals restore intimacy to grieving rituals - The Globe and Mail
As baby boomers bury their parents and contemplate their own deaths, some are rejecting the modern funeral industry Source: Home funerals restore intimacy to grieving rituals – The Globe and Mail
View ArticleFebruary End of the Month Update on the End-of-Life with Dr. Karen Wyatt
https://lessonsfromdying.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/podcastfeb.mp3 In this February Update on End-of-Life Issues, Dr. Wyatt will discuss: Medical schools put more emphasis on pain management education...
View ArticleEditorial: On assisted suicide, the federal government should follow Quebec's...
It would be hard to imagine a more suitable candidate for assisted suicide than Ms. S, the woman whose death Monday was authorized by a Calgary judge. She was a mature person of sound mind, but in the...
View ArticleJudge to rule by Monday on publication ban for assisted-death request
A Toronto judge says he will decide by Monday at the latest whether to impose a broad ban on publishing information about a cancer patient who is asking for doctor-assisted death and the physicians...
View ArticleChambers: Why suffering children should have the right to assisted dying
Political columnist Andrew Coyne argues that the Supreme Court of Canada moved into “unknown territory” when it declared the present ban on assisted suicide unconstitutional. He suggests that the...
View ArticleDoctors throughout Alberta willing to assist death: AHS
Alberta physicians in every medical zone are willing and ready to assist patients requesting to die, a senior Alberta Health Services official said Thursday. Dr. Francois Belanger made the comments the...
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Resurrection
My mother and her two best friends, Evelyn and Bubbles, were inseparable. They knew each other as young wives in Chicago, having been introduced by their husbands who went to high school together. In...
View ArticleSask. funeral home offers Canada's first fire-free cremation, dissolving...
When Drew Gray was preparing to offer Canada’s first alkaline hydrolysis — or water cremation — service, he wasn’t sure how well people would take the idea of their loved ones’ remains being dissolved....
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