Startled and Startling
The deer is lost – out of place – in the civilized world of pavement and traffic beyond the woods. It runs past us at break-neck speed, capturing the attention of customers in the coffee shop. Such...
View Articleour inmost garments
MacDonald has death on his mind. Not death as a process, but death as the proper goal of life. His i
View ArticleIs there no summing up when we die?
How could things after one’s death not have been left “messy, unresolved, dangling.” Katie Roiphe, in her recent Times op ed piece, Dying with nothing to say, writes: We have an idea that when...
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Questions about death and dying
THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS Readers’ questions to a near-death experiencer at BeyondtheVeil.net Chapter Three Death and Dying *Life has no meaning *Is there a way to communicate...
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Today, You Will Be with Me in Paradise
Not everyone I visit, on my day job as a hospice chaplain, wants to talk about their death. Of those, most politely say that they don’t want to talk about it. Though I did have one patient who...
View ArticlePrison Terminal: A Film About Hospice in Prisons with Edgar Barens
https://lessonsfromdying.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/podcastbarens.mp3 Dr. Karen Wyatt interviews Edgar Barens who is the director of the documentary film “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private...
View ArticleHospitals should be able to opt out of doctor-assisted death, expert says
Neither doctors nor the institutions where they work should be forced to offer physician-assisted suicide, an expert on end-of-life decision making said Monday. Judith Wahl, of Toronto’s Advocacy...
View ArticleWhat Now?
Mom was by nature a caregiver. Beyond her role as a parent, she helped take care of her sister, mot
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Verse - God's Plan
Steve sent this @12:26 a.m. today. Though fatigued, he had a “good day” with visits from his high school friend Gary, an 18 year-old he’s mentored since the fourth grade (clarification: since the young...
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The Sunset Years
I’m still the “me” of childhood, although Hubby and I are entering the sunset years. Yes, our hair is gray and our bodies tire a bit quicker these days, but who we are on the inside still feels like...
View ArticleA Dying Friend, the Mass and the Witness in the Pub
Someone very dear to me was rushed to the emergency room two Sundays ago and found to be dying. My w
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A Bouquet in Place #FridayFictioneers
Photo Credit @Ted Strutz A Bouquet in Place by Tracey Delaplain I wrinkled my nose and let a faint grimace escape. “It’s death,” said the astute nurse, “you never really get used to the smell.” “But...
View ArticleVerse - The Last Months
I ain’t bein’ brave… I ain’t FIGHTIN’ CANCER… I’m just sleepin’ at night, an’ waking up with the sunrise so far… I’m livin’ each day, sayin’ thanks for food brought by friends, for stories, for...
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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: A Peek at the World of Colors and Depression
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was one of the books which marked my maturity as a reader — a leap from my Hardy Boys and Animorphs years to a new level of reading. As a rule, I wouldn’t touch the...
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Books for Kids: Death comes knocking with a message: Cry, Heart, But Never Break
Death is not an easy thing to explain to the very young. For many parents and teachers, the go-to book has, for decades, been Judith Viorst’s The Tenth Good Thing About Barney. But while that is...
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Stepping Lightly
As I walk through the old Zoar cemetery, down in the country, I step carefully around the headstones, trying to read what is written, though it is often impossible to make out names, or birth and death...
View ArticleTHE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST: THREE POSSIBLE SCENARIOS
Pretend with me that we are a forensic investigators, and we’ve been given the call to respond to a
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Questions about grief
THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS Readers’ questions to a near-death experiencer at BeyondtheVeil.net Chapter Four Grief …your site certainly came into my view at the exact time period in...
View ArticleNew Poem : The Things I Know
The Things I Know Your heartbeat has gone into hibernation but once you’re on the other side, it will wake up, strong like the sea, loud like thunder echoing off mountain walls. The moon has come...
View ArticleMarch End of Month Update on the End-of-Life with Dr. Karen Wyatt
https://lessonsfromdying.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/podcastmarcheom.mp3 Dr. Karen Wyatt discusses what’s new and noteworthy in the end-of-life arena this month: Medscape article reveals that 1/3 of...
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