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The Story of a Life Time, My Last Soundtrack
An E-Legacy Today, you’d be hard-pressed not to find traces of someone on the internet. People will share just about everything with the world allowing each of us a brief glimpse into their life. I’ve...
View ArticleUnconditional Love: Mom
My relationship began anew when Mom moved in with me. She was far sicker than I imagined and yet she died before I was ready. I’m going to spare the saga of all the details about how Mom came to live...
View ArticleDeath doulas transforming how we die in Canada
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Celebrities Remember Hugh Hefner for More Than Just the Articles
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A Ghostly Father Sets Off a Cascade of Memories
Seeing Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan” reminds a critic of her own father and why she turns to theater to “confront the hard stuff,” like grieving his death. Published: September 28, 2017 at 05:30AM...
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how are you, today?
Sheryl Sandberg encourages us to ask people in mourning, “How are you, today?” By emphasizing today, we acknowledge the bumpy nature of grief. Sometimes, I think, asking, “How are you, right now…in...
View ArticleFuneral etiquette: How rituals differ by faith
Courtesy of TheStar.com | By Isabel Teotonio| Originally Posted 05.26.2014 | Published 09.30.2017 Go
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Still Waters
STILL WATERS by LINDSEY P. BRACKETT Firefly Southern Fiction (Sept, 2017) Paperback: 274 pages ISBN: 978-1946016232 Genre: WOMEN’S FICTION/CHRISTIAN FAITH Review Source: Purchase ★★★★☆ I am a Yankee...
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Staying Strong
December 29, 2016 “Stay strong!” These are the last words my son says to me as he and his wife board their plane back to LA after their holiday visit with us. “Stay strong,” and of course he is right...
View ArticleEnd of the care conveyor belt: death in intensive care units
Courtesy of TheConversation.com | By Kenneth Hillman |Originally Posted 11.21.2011 | Published 10.02
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a Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Book Description: Published:September 27, 2011 Format: E-Book An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven...
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Ep. 110 Threshold Choir: Singing to Comfort the Dying
Learn how small choirs around the country are bringing beauty and solace to the bedsides of dying patients. https://lessonsfromdying.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/podcasteoluthreshold110ed.mp3 In this...
View ArticleHer Name Is... a Hospice Patient About an Ordinary Day
Years ago when my friend Anne and I co-authored a book about our experiences and the experiences of other staff who worked at hospice, it was our desire to share stories of those we encountered on...
View Articleall that should have fallen – at a time of tragedy, a Christian prayer
O God, as thousands of Your children gathered under Your gracious canopy of stellar space to celebrate Your gifts of life and music, all that should have fallen as the day ebbed and the night came was...
View ArticleDying to The Glory of God
“Now this He said, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He said to him, ‘Follow Me!’” (John 21:19) In I Cor. 10:31 Paul writes that “whatever you do, do...
View ArticleOne Physician's Perspective On Death And Dying
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View ArticleWho Does God Turn To?
Oftentimes when I’m dealing with my motherhood issues – which means I’m dealing with my children, I often think of God and how he deals with all of us. Who does he talk to? Who does she seek support...
View ArticleViva Las Vegas
I love Las Vegas. My lovely supermodel wife and I have been there several times, and we’ve always had a blast. We don’t go there to gamble. And now that I’ve quit drinking, we don’t go there to party....
View ArticleA personal account of life with terminal cancer
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View Article'Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End' by Atul Gawande
The old saying goes that once you have faced death, you can truly live. Trite but true. Of course we
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