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Care vs Cure
Listen to link below http://gesuparish.org/about/homilies/Schlegel%2020150830.mp3 As I grow older, I wonder what my end will be like. Recently, I received the above link in my email. A friend sent it...
View ArticleA Good Day to Die: Fake Funerals in South Korea (20:33)
Aug 21, 2015 Whilst the rest of the world gorges itself on K-Pop, Korean movies, and smartphones produced by Korean tech giant Samsung, Koreans themselves have never been more bummed out. With over...
View ArticleAlberta regulator taking 'conservative' approach to physician-assisted dying
By John Cotter The organization that regulates Alberta doctors says it is taking a “conservative” approach to the issue of physician-assisted death. The College of Physicians and Surgeons has released...
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9/11: SHAKEN AND STIRRED TOWARD HEAVEN
God’s Call: To Rebuild or Reset? “…set your hearts on things above on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”...
View ArticleI Wish It Were Yesterday
~ Yesterday, did I smile when you met me at the door? Did I give you a hug that said how much I miss
View ArticleAn Experiment in Style
Regardless of the fact that folklore tells us ‘curiosity killed the cat’ I am a curious
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The Journey of Anguish
I have experienced extreme grief before but never like what I am going through at the moment. This has occurred because of my sister’s courageous fight with pancreatic cancer and the fact that she is...
View ArticleThe Best We Can Do
Losing the presence of someone we love is the last thought we want to have…saying goodbye is n
View ArticleWashing His Bright Hands (I'll Fly Away)
Study of Hands by Egon Schiele, Austrian, 1921, via Wikimedia Commons. Mmm, hmm. Mmm, hmm. Song
View ArticleWhat Hospice Patients Know that the Rest of Us Don't
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View ArticleFalling Silent
As a voice coach and singer, I pay unusual attention to voices. I cherish the cadences, rhythms, and sounds that I hear in the voices of my family members and friends. Each one is completely unique....
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Have you ever had a person FIGHT for you?
Someone that said, finger pointed right in their face, “HEY!!!! WHAT DID YOU SAY?” No? Me neither. However, some way, and some how I cannot begin to wrap my head around….EMDR showed me that I could I...
View ArticleGive The Gift Of Example
Thursday night we had some neighbors over for a barbeque on our patio. The weather was beautiful, an
View ArticleThe Kubler-Ross Five Emotional Stages Of Grief - Dealing With Bad News Is A...
I have been reading the fascinating Oliver Sacks autobiography “On the Move’, and was touched by his descriptions of his early neurology days interacting with patients who he had to give bad news to...
View ArticleCalifornia Passes Physician Assisted Suicide
As my concentration for my Master’s was in Older Adults and Families, you can imagine that I was briefed a bit on death and dying social issues, and death with dignity came up a lot. On Friday,...
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The Death Coach
I’m becoming more interested in the ways that European folklore traditions were brought over to the States and integrated into American folklore traditions. Many of the stories are effectively the...
View ArticleAging and Dying As a Crescendo at the End of Life
My godson (a thoughtful, kind and generous young man) has just shared a TED Talk with me. It’s about palliative care and our need to re-think and re-design our approaches to dying …. the systems as...
View ArticleI'm A Lyrical Gangster - On Religion, Or So You're Told
A Man and a Woman create a Life, raising an infant with Faith to appease Strife. With air to breathe, the child has the breath to believe- in the higher power that is Love, we look to the sky above....
View ArticleYou Grieve Because You Love
When a loved one is no longer with you, recognize your grief as the expression of your love for them
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