death and dying discussion group
If you are in the San Diego area, and would like to join an ongoing group discussing end of life matters, please contact me for more information.
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Sons Without Fathers
There is no preparation for the loneliness of a world from which the two people who put you in it have gone. Published: July 14, 2017 at 05:30AM Opinion By ROGER COHEN from NYT Opinion...
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The ethics of end-of-life decisions
For almost all of us, everything about dying is fraught, even when the person involved has ‘had a good innings,’ a happy life, is ready to go, and faces a peaceful death. We live, most of us, in a...
View ArticleThe Inner Stretch of Nursing: Guest Post for American Journal of Nursing
Nursing has a way of challenging – and sometimes flat out messing with – your perspective on life. So many Sundays, I’ve gone to church and started singing about truths I know to be foundational – God...
View ArticleEnd of Week Four - Happy Friday, but let's talk about death and dying a bit....
As you’ll hear if you head over to Canvas and listen to the recording of today’s conference/chat session, today I attended a memorial for the brother of close friends. It made me think about the...
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Friday: Trying to Maintain ...
The world has turned upside down. Thankfully, I am still sober. I know what I must do to maintain. Perfection is but an illusion. Imperfection is the truth. The answer is within as long as one can be...
View ArticleA Special Creature of God
It’s been over a year ago when I had to take two companions to the Vet to put their sick bodies to rest and allow them to go in peace. Goliath was 19 and Olivia 17. They lived long and well but...
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Notice the Fireflies.
I recently began as a volunteer with my local hospice organization. Persons that are referred for hospice services are presumed to have six months or less to live. Hospice services assist with their...
View Article8. Carrot juice
Several years ago Anthony and I embarked on a carrot juice diet and we went through two juicers (warranteed and replaced) in our quest for better health. We did this for around two months until our...
View ArticleFlash-Fiction called Inter-Sensational, Writer's Block, and thoughts on Death.
Inter-Sensational I am a mendicant wanderer. A vagabond par excellence. Not that poor. Not that rich. Just enough to keep me rolling along so as I don’t get bogged down in the mundanity of living. I’d...
View ArticleDeath and Dying Prompt: Medical Malpractice
Malpractice is clearly a huge issue in the medical field, and after reading the NPR article in the prompt, I now see it is far more prevalent than I believed it to be. The older sister of a close...
View ArticleA Vision of God
People often ask me how I could have worked at a hospice surrounded by the “shroud of death.” What often comes to my mind is a vision of all the countless thousands of people who work in cubicles in...
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Book Review: To Say Goodbye
To Say Goodbye, by Lindsay Detwiler Publication: Hot Tree Publishing; September 24, 2016 About the book: Feisty Sophia never shies away from life. Playful, romantic, connected—her marriage was the...
View ArticleWhat is 'euthanasia'?
I wrote last week about a range of ethical issues at the end of life; this post will cover some of the same ground, from a different perspective, as I discuss what people can mean when they talk about...
View ArticleMore Time Among The Living
**frank talk about my head horrors. also, assume I’m okay with my therapists and their opinions and I’m confident it’s the right choice.** EMDR has not been a roaring success. Or maybe it has. On my...
View ArticleStillness
My partner and I take time to connect and check in regularly. It’s how we nurture ourselves and each other. Last week he shared that it wasn’t until he experienced deep stillness during yoga training...
View ArticleA professionally passionate position on assisted suicide
There are a number of ways that I could approach this perennial issue that rouses strong and often polarising opinions. I have a graduate diploma in bioethics, and a masters in health ethics, so I’m...
View ArticleI Have a Bone in My Leg
A while back I started to compile snippets of stories about women who have touched my life. I have relayed this particular story often. Sadly the woman I’m writing about has now left this earth but...
View ArticleOf Life, Death and Brokeness
I’ve been thinking about Mom a lot lately. Since the anniversary of her death – July 14, 2015. The single moment when she died… when she took her last breath. Taking care of Mom for all those years –...
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Charlie Gard and the Experts
The moral and medical costs of coming between parents and their dying child. Published: July 22, 2017 at 05:30AM Opinion By ROSS DOUTHAT from NYT Opinion http://ift.tt/2eE9UIu Follow Bakerrs on...
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