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Just a Couple of Old People Holding Hands
[photos courtesy of the Estate of Carl Smith] I’ve spent the last month posting about death and grief and dying probably because my mom died a year ago and I’m still in process. A few months ago, my...
View ArticleConversation at the Door
Some of our most important and profound words are said in doorways. Because someone is leaving, words spoken at the door are often more consequential, more weighty. Time is short and must not be...
View ArticleJade After Jason: PTSD Can Happen After You Lose A Loved One
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Dad
You would have been 91 years old today. As it turned out, you left last year, three weeks short of your ninetieth birthday. You couldn’t hang around for the chocolate cake; you had places to go. You...
View ArticleWhy Embracing Death Lets Us Embrace Life
Last night, I had a detailed and vivid dream that my father died. We have always been extremely close, and so I woke up scared and upset and angry. And throughout the day, with my clients and at work,...
View Article11 Signs Your Soul Has Reincarnated Many Times
by ALETHEIA LUNA | Expanded Consciousness When we understand reincarnation as the maturation proces
View ArticleFocus on palliative care, not assisted suicide, faith groups urge Trudeau
Prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau is being urged by religious leaders from Canada’s Catholic, Evangelical Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities to act quickly on creating a legislative...
View ArticlePhantom Limb Pain
There’s a crazy phenomenon that sometimes happens when a person loses a limb. The nervous system thinks the limb is still there, so that the person continues to have the sensation of having it. I...
View ArticleDeath and Dying, and Chapter Reading
I finished reading our first chapter book of the school year, Charlotte’s Web. Children were engrossed in this book because it is a story about the heart, and my most important job is educating the...
View ArticleHelping a Loved One Have a Conscious Death with Rev. Maria Hoagland
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Like Stepping Into the Next Room
Even difficult journeys, like the one I just survived to my native land, Germany, can yield wonderful surprises. It’s in the nature of such visits that old stories are unearthed and things you didn’t...
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Of a certain age... (originally published 6/17/15)
by Diane Goble For many years, I’ve helped people deal with advance healthcare planning both as an author and an educator. I currently write a blog and articles encouraging people to have the...
View ArticleIn the Middle of the Night with Dr. King, by Michael Bischoff
In the middle of the night with Dr. King Last month I received the unexpected news that I had a canc
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Novemberish
I really don’t like the month of November, and so when I learned that November’s adjectival form, Novemberish, means “dreary,” I wasn’t at all surprised. I love autumn which symbolizes so many good...
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Death as an Advisor
If today were the last day of your life, would you want to spend it the way that you’re about to? Source: Death as an Advisor : Waking Times M.J. Higby, Contributor Waking Times Oct 21, 2015 “Life...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Health Care: Session 6
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View ArticleA STORY YOU MAY WANT TO READ...
I just finished a novel by a Swedish author, Frederik Backman. The book is A MAN CALLED OVE [I think it rhymes with ‘love’], and it may be one of the best things I’ve ever read–fiction or non–on the...
View ArticleChoices and Illusions at the End-of-Life with Eldon Taylor
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Journey in a Boat with no Oars
Dear Friends, I was truly inspired by the following passage from a book by Joan Norton and Margaret Starbird, and the timing of my “receiving it” yesterday evening; to the point I will be using it...
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Seeing Beyond the Veil
My uncle, a week before he passed at 100 years of age, saw his father coming to to take him home. His caregiver, Ed, told me in heavily accented English of the dream that woke my uncle, and Ed also...
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