(Ever) After: Losing A Parent
Experiences. Each of us is made up of things that happen over the course of our lifetime. Good things. Bad things. The things that prepare us for hardships or success. Things that bring us intense...
View ArticleFrom the Interesting to the Simple
By Stephen Damon [If you haven’t read my previous two post you might do so before reading this one.] MSA (multiple systems atrophy) is a progressive disorder and so as soon as I get more or less used...
View ArticleQuebec applauds federal right-to-die legislation
QUEBEC — As someone with a rare degenerative neurological illness, Ghislain Leblond says he’s thrilled Ottawa is forging ahead with a right-to-die legislation that’s almost a carbon copy of Quebec’s...
View ArticleEditorial: A compromise on assisted dying
The federal government faced a difficult task in having to produce doctor-assisted dying legislation on a deadline. It deserves credit for tabling a bill Thursday that, while leaving many dissatisfied,...
View ArticleWiebe: Assisted dying bill would help most patients
I am so grateful to live in a country that recognizes the basic human right to choose an assisted death. The Supreme Court’s “Carter” decision of last year and Thursday’s legislation, Bill C-14, allow...
View ArticleFerrier: Assisted-dying bill safeguards no one's right to life
After 14 months of suspense since the Supreme Court judges ruled in the Carter case that doctors must be allowed to cause the death of some patients, we finally have a bill. What a disappointment....
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Elegy to My Beloved Teacher
The storm has hit here in Oak Creek and has already offloaded six-plus inches of heavy spring crystal precipitation. The roads are banana peels and I’m hunkered down in my Shack in Progressu,...
View ArticleApril 15, 2016
Am I Dying? [written 2014] Well, certainly sometime… but I mean, am I dying soon? like before my next birthday… or even before I get to make love again… (and these days, at my advanced age, that might...
View ArticleIf I Lose This Battle
*I am fine this is just something that I have been thinking about for a while and it needs to be said. I cannot say it to who I need to but I can say it on here.* This battle has raged on for years,...
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Bye Bye Daddy
You must understand that taking care of my father who had seven brain tumors, kidney and lung cancer was too much for me to bear. But I had a grandiose sense that I could handle anything at that time...
View ArticleTHROUGH DEATH'S PORTAL...
Through death’s portals, what do we find, Anything for atheists to ease the mind? Only One returned Saying salvation isn’t earned, But is initially a spiritual kind. – The interest in dying reveals,...
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Hope in the Struggle
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to...
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One Week Only! Win a Free Book!
Did you miss the chance to talk with loved ones on National Healthcare Decisions Day on April 16, ’16? It’s not too late! And I want to help you start the conversation by offering a giveaway of five...
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Questions about the afterlife and life after death
THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS Readers’ questions to a near-death experiencer at BeyodndtheVeil.net Chapter Seven The Afterlife …your site certainly came into my view at the exact time...
View ArticleStill Grieving
Life offers so many opportunities to eat crow. A few months after my mom passed away I published a p
View ArticleBrothers and sisters
One of the ways monks address groups of people in Thailand is by saying, ‘Brothers and sisters in old age, sickness, and death’. It is interesting to think we are all brothers and sisters simply...
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Whinery Funeral Service Helps Stage Mock DUI Crash
Did you know that every two minutes someone is injured in a drunk-driving related crash? On average, two in three people will be involved in a drunk-driving crash in their lifetime. On March 30th, the...
View ArticleSpring pop-up death cafe at Bradford on Avon
Mystic Moon moored above Bradford on Avon lock A wonderful spring day welcomed nine of us on board M
View ArticleEp. 35 April End of Month Update on the End-of-Life with Dr. Karen Wyatt
https://lessonsfromdying.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/podcastaprileom.mp3 Today Dr. Karen Wyatt offers the End of Month Update for April 2016. In this episode she recaps the 10-Day SMART Decisions...
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Tsunami(s) and the Church
The other day I read an article named, “Death Tsunami Threatens Church” (article) which states that the only way for the church to survive the impending numbers of people dying is to transform itself...
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