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What legacy would you leave behind??
A dying man in America has decided to donate his priced collection of 1500 bobbleheads to a museum. Now, you may be wondering what kind of museum would be interested in a small plastic toy with an...
View ArticleOn Knowing Jesus
Wow! The last few days have been very spring-like, and the ice is gone from the lake. I hope you have been able to get out and enjoy the warmer temperatures. Large numbers of geese have been passing...
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A Little Light Reading
Ever since Mom’s heart attack last spring, I’ve been reading more books on caregiving, dementia, and death and dying. The montage above shows what I’ve read on this topic over the past 10 months. I...
View ArticleOn Death & Dying
Dr. Ross takes us on an adventure with many research and interviews, opening our eyes to the world where, let’s be frank, most of us do not wish to think about, let alone deal with. What can you do or...
View ArticleDeath and Dying: Part Two.
Although I wish I were dead, truly and sincerely and from the bottom of my soul, I am beginning to make my peace with the fact that I simply lack the … wherewithal to commit suicide. I have spent an...
View ArticleSuffering and Personal Identity
Suffering, death, and loss lay at the heart of a person’s connection to their sense of personal identity. It is in our most vulnerable moments that we come to know those things most dear to us; indeed,...
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The healing gift of Compassionate Depossession
Compassionate depossession is one of the cornerstones of shamanic healing. Spirits who are trapped in this dimension and can’t move to their rightful home can cause problems, at times quite...
View ArticleOrléans Wood Elementary School mourns death of boy, 8
Staff, students, family and friends are mourning the death of an eight-year-old Grade 3 pupil at Orléans Wood Elementary School on Friday. In a letter home to parents on Friday, school acting principal...
View ArticleOn the Way to the Grave
Recently, my person shared with me something someone else had said to him, as a way of justifying he
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Extreme Measures in the ICU with Dr. Jessica Zitter
Learn how ICU and Palliative Care Physician Dr. Jessica Zitter is changing the culture of critical care medicine in America. https://lessonsfromdying.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/eolu17zittered.mp3 My...
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Ep. 79 The Death-Positive Mindset: How to Create and Share It
The term “death-positive” is everywhere these days. But what does it mean and how do we spread this mindset through our society?...
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Does the individual consciousness carry on after death?
Image From My sisters and I got together on Friday night to have a bite and sit in a hot tub for a while. Of course, we got around to talking about our mother who passed away this past December. I’ve...
View ArticleOn Death & Dying
Dr. Ross takes us on an adventure with many research and interviews, opening our eyes to the world where, let’s be frank, most of us do not wish to think about, let alone deal with. What can you do or...
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Elly's planned eulogy for her father's wake - Sunday 5th March
This is not the photo I envisaged here but I can’t find the one I wanted and this is a good’un Dad and I were sitting out on the porch one day when I noticed something unusual about the tree branch...
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The alternative history
This is the alternative history, the eulogy for my father I will not deliver. Some of the details may be incorrect. The chronology might be out. It’s as I remember it. ♠ It’s Adelaide, summer 1972/73....
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Mind your Busy-ness
My precious Aunty Liz died today.I guess I am feeling a bit strange. I have known for the past three weeks she was slipping away. I was preparing to travel down for the funeral. Now today being told...
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Eulogy by my sister Cathy for our father Angus's wake - draft
I was with Dad when the surgeon said the cancer is inoperable. Dad smiled and asked, “You don’t think it’s worth looking around for a new car then?” The next day he went out with Mum and bought a new...
View ArticleThe great mystery: 'How do you know that it is bad to be dead?'
I’m guessing that as we get older, we think more about our mortality. OK, to put it more blunt
View ArticleDementia and experimentation
Yes I realise this sounds a bit like the title of a horror movie (and in the past few hundred years people with Dementia were misunderstood, undiagnosed, and treated cruelly under a regime of ‘care’)....
View ArticleThe Dying Man - from June 20, 2015
His visage was unassuming, lean and wiry with a long face and wide-set, slightly protuberant eyes. His voice was soft, but his temper was quick. It was generally agreed upon that he was a kind man,...
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