Ep. 52 How to Start an End-of-Life Film Series in Your Community
https://lessonsfromdying.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/podcasteolufilm.mp3 Read the companion blog for this podcast here! Today Dr. Wyatt shares some tips on starting a film series in your community to...
View ArticleThe Depths
“You have had almost nothing for the past few days. You are going to die. At some point you are going to be a danger to others” “What!?” “You cannot be commuting and pass out while driving. You would...
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Hints and Accidents
Sometimes, a casualty too close. We all know what becomes of a ghost… We all know…they are know strangers here. Here…when life hits you from the rear. Is it that lack of motion? The dead-end sound of...
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Finding Quality Care for Serious Illness -- Before a Medical Crisis Hits
I’m excited and honored to tell you that this fall, I’m teaching a new two-session course called “Let’s Manage Late Life Well” at the Lois E. Marshall Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) at...
View ArticleThe Case: Theists v. Atheists, Part 2
As if to prove my point in Part 1 (yesterday), the N.Y. Times ran an opinion piece on how religion is portrayed on TV and other “smaller media” (“Where Is God on the Small Screen?” by Margaret Lyons...
View ArticleEp. 53 August End of Month Update on the End-of-Life
https://lessonsfromdying.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/podcasteoluaugusteom.mp3 It’s the end of August and time for another End of Month Update on the End-of-Life. Today Dr. Wyatt discusses the following...
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When the Dead Awaken…and Teach! (The Continuing Legacy of Dr. Wayne Dyer)
Today, August 29, 2016, marks the one year anniversary of the passing of Dr. Wayne Dyer, the “Father of Motivation,” and my self-appointed guru for fourteen years. One year ago today, Wayne succumbed...
View ArticleThe Olde Buzzard and the Easter bunny
After my mother died we put my father in a home. Funny how that sounds like a confession! It sounds
View ArticleAugust 30, 2016 - Peace and Quiet
August 30, 2016 – Peace and Quiet First full day with nothing on the calendar, no little kids waking us up at 6:30 am and no place to really go to. As a result I slept in until after 9 am and loved it....
View ArticleLosing It
Some days I feel as though I’ve lost my already questionable grip on reality. Even though I
View ArticleMy One-Year Sentence
Chances are, you’ve heard of the “One Year Rule” as it applies to grief. Plenty o
View ArticleAirborne
Just when I feel I’ve turned a corner, and just maybe things will be a bit easier for me (not
View ArticleDry Spell
I need to warn you right up front. This post is going to be a bit different than most before and ma
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Grieving Funny
A fistful of dollars could not buy this strange plot. Thickened with humidity…surrounded by misplaced granite… We have never lived by Good Housekeeping standards. So…why start now? An Irish drunkard...
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Life Ensurance.
A few years ago, I read on Facebook that a woman named Desreen – a beautiful woman, though that’s probably irrelevant – had been knocked over and killed after leaving my auntie’s brother’s house. Her...
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Public Forum Takeaways: Death and Dying in US Jails and Prisons
A few takeaways from yesterday evening’s forum in Boston regarding death and dying in prisons and jails: 1) Higher percentages of the black and Hispanic populations die in prison than whites. 2)...
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Saving Gray
Meet Gray, otherwise referred to as “itty bitty kitty”! He was just hours away from death due to the fact that his pet parent died without having a pet trust or pet protection plan as a part of their...
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Ep. 54 Film: Love in Our Own Time with Tom Murray
https://lessonsfromdying.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/podcasteolumurray.mp3 Join Dr. Karen Wyatt and her guest Tom Murray, director of the beautiful feature-length documentary Love in Our Own Time. They...
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Review: Tuesdays with Morrie
My Profile Picture Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom Copyright 1997 Years after graduating from college, sports writer Mitch Albom...
View ArticleRelentless Reality
I had a discussion earlier this week with a friend. She’s not a close friend, as much through
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