I Don't Want to be Her, to the End
A bright cake for me to deliver on a rainy day, pinks and purples as requested, reading: Happy Birthday, Dorothy! The baker asks me which birthday is it? She’s 98 and in hospice. I resist the...
View ArticleEp. 66: November End of Month Update on the End of Life
In this episode Dr. Wyatt thanks her latest supporter on Patreon.com/eolu, Suzanne O’Brien RN, founder of Doulagivers. If you would like to help support this podcast and End-of-Life University...
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Wordle #131 “November 28th, 2016”
A moribound wave suckles at my veins. Too many nuances to sedate, emotions both pivotal and redundant. We have been here many times and yet each new birth must be named. – Stars jaunt episodic beneath...
View ArticleThe Gift of a Broken Heart
It takes courage to love — to keep your heart soft and vulnerable after it’s been broken wide open by loving someone only to be let down, betrayed, belittled and abandoned. But that’s what one of my...
View ArticleHonor National Hospice and Palliative Care Month This November
There’s a lot going on in November, from Election Day to Thanksgiving. But did you know that this month is also National Hospice and Palliative Care Month? It is, and in fact this year’s theme is Know...
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You Want It Darker
Our son Harry, with whom we enjoyed a great Thanksgiving, has decided to make aliyah (for my non Jewish friends, this means exercising his right as a Jew under Israel’s “Law of Return” which permits...
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a World AIDS Day tribute
Wayne Roberts Abernathy, December 21, 1950-March 20, 1995 numbered among the 1st generations of martyrs slain by a killer, then, by most, barely known, tho’ still, by some, bravely named, Wayne, with...
View Articleบาร์โด คำสอนว่าด้วยชีวิตและความตาย
เรามักมองว่าความตายคือสิ่งน่าหวาดกลัวและการพูดถึงความตายเป็นอัปมงคล เมื่อมีบุคคลในครอบครัวเจ็บหนัก เราจึงไม่สามารถพูดถึงความตายได้เท่าไรนักเพราะอาจถูกมองว่าเป็นการสาปแช่ง แต่ในสังคมพุทธทิเบต-หิมาลัย...
View Articleบทภาวนาเพื่อผู้ล่วงลับตามประเพณีทิเบต
เพื่อนเอย อย่าหลับใหลในความมืดบอดของอวิชชา ที่ปกคลุมไปทั่วนภากาศ แต่ตื่นขึ้นมา สดับธรรมแล้วใคร่ครวญ ดวงประทีปแห่งริกปะฉายฉานอยู่ภายใน ราชาแห่งปัญญาเปี่ยมด้วยศักยภาพ สามารถพาเราไปสู่การหลุดพ้น พอเสียที...
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Things To Come
Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) is a philosophy teacher who takes pleasure in thinking and inner life. She’s a recent empty-nester with a rocky marriage and a demanding mother. If she were to suddenly be...
View ArticleThere are No "Do-overs" after Death
Rev. 22: 11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy...
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A Touch Across Time - love doesn’t die
Across Time? My Dad died some years back. I reconnected with him yesterday… a touch across time. No need to put on your spooky-head nor let icy spiders jiggle up your spine. I’d mark this as higher...
View ArticleDeath in the neighborhood
I see thy soul shake off its earthly load, Spring into life, immortal, half a god….. ~Ophelia, “To the Memory of a deceased Friend,” The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1751 A neighbor died a couple of...
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A Touch Across Time - love doesn’t die
Across Time? My Dad died some years back. I reconnected with him yesterday… a touch across time. No need to put on your spooky-head nor let icy spiders jiggle up your spine. I’d mark this as higher...
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A Touch Across Time - love doesn’t die
Across Time? My Dad died some years back. I reconnected with him yesterday… a touch across time. No need to put on your spooky-head nor let icy spiders jiggle up your spine. I’d mark this as higher...
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Suicides and Sudden Deaths - Perspectives From My Experience as a Psychic
Image from http://www.radiomonash.net “Did you really want to die?” “No one commits suicide because they want to die.” “Then why do they do it?” “Because they want to stop the pain.” ~ Tiffanie...
View ArticleSearching for direction? Your life is always speaking to you
The first time I was drawn to being a hospice volunteer I was interviewing a singer-songwriter. List
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"The Art Of Dying Well" Website
The Catholic Church in England and Wales is launching a new website aimed at practically and spiritually helping both Catholics and non-Catholics alike grapple with issues around death and dying, and...
View ArticleOntario government moves to block info about which institutions provide...
Ontario plans to change privacy laws to shield health-care institutions that provide assisted dying from being identified, something patient advocates say will make it more difficult to determine...
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