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Being Dead Is No Excuse – Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral
Required reading for your end of life celebration! There are too few words and phrases to adequately describe this unique devil-take-the-hindmost approach to cooking and end-of-life ceremonies. Tongue in cheek? Maybe. Laugh-out-loud narrative? Definitely. Plus, an extraordinary combination of ingredients … Continue reading →
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A Good Death
Thank you to Sacred Dying for recommending another well written article about “…the growing movement to re-envision the end of life—to give seriously ill patients the right to limit or decline aggressive (and often futile) treatments. Those who wanted … Continue reading →
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Why More Patients Should Blog About Illness And Death
Why More Patients Should Blog About Illness And Death As Ganga Stone said so many years ago…Start the Conversation!
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Weighing the End of Life – NYTimes.com
Weighing the End of Life – NYTimes.com. We are going through the exact scenario described in this article with our little puppy Choco. I’m amazed at the number of folks I’ve talked with who’ve had similar experiences with an aging … Continue reading →
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What is a POLST form????
In the hospital where I work, as I’m going about my daily physical therapy business I have recently noticed the appearance of colorful pink forms in many of the charts. I feel that this kind of snuck up on me, … Continue reading →
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What a lovely send-off: Fresh thinking for funerals
This is a really well written article about how the funeral industry is changing to more personalized, family oriented ceremonies. Hope that you get a chance to read it. Thanks to our friends at Dying Matters
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