Monthly Archives: March 2008

> Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life • Life and Death on Your Own Terms by Megory Anderson; Roseville, California, Prima Publishing, 2001, 364 pages, $23.95 • by L. L. Basta, M.D.; Amherst, New York, Prometheus … Continue reading →

Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life • Life and Death on Your Own Terms by Megory Anderson; Roseville, California, Prima Publishing, 2001, 364 pages, $23.95 • by L. L. Basta, M.D.; Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, … Continue reading →

> A Journey From the Known to the Unknown (from the excellent newly revived about.com/palliative care section) Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state … Continue reading →

A Journey From the Known to the Unknown (from the excellent newly revived about.com/palliative care section) Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of … Continue reading →

>Refusal of artificial feeding as a natural part of dying Judith Ahronheim, MD Adapted extract from an article entitled ‘Artificial feeding: what’s involved?’ by Judith Ahronheim, MD, Associate Professor of Geriatrics and Medicine at Mt. Sinai Medical School, New York … Continue reading →

>Improving care of the dying in residential care homes People in residential care and nursing homes might well like to talk more about death and dying, according to a study by Katherine Phillips at the Royal Star and Garter Home … Continue reading →

>A Good Death – A guide for patients and carers facing terminal illness at home by Dr Elizabeth Lee, published by Rosendale Press (10 Greycoat Place, London SW1P 1SB, tel 020 7 222 8866), 1995, 188 pages, £8-99 (£1 extra … Continue reading →

>A Death Plantaken from The Natural Death Centre About a third of us in the UK get around to making a Will, which specifies our wishes for what should happen after our death, as regards our funeral and our children … Continue reading →

Refusal of artificial feeding as a natural part of dying Judith Ahronheim, MD Adapted extract from an article entitled ‘Artificial feeding: what’s involved?’ by Judith Ahronheim, MD, Associate Professor of Geriatrics and Medicine at Mt. Sinai Medical School, New York … Continue reading →

Improving care of the dying in residential care homes People in residential care and nursing homes might well like to talk more about death and dying, according to a study by Katherine Phillips at the Royal Star and Garter Home … Continue reading →