Farewell, Sweet Creature
My beloved teacup Pomeranian friend Dutch passed away this weekend and I wasn't there for it. The truth is, he was old and fragile. But his passing is still shocking and sudden and seemingly avoidable.
My beloved teacup Pomeranian friend Dutch passed away this weekend and I wasn't there for it. The truth is, he was old and fragile. But his passing is still shocking and sudden and seemingly avoidable.
Rev. Michael Dowd | Posted 05.30.2012
Everything we value is possible only because of death. We can no longer afford to remain ignorant of it; the cost is too high. Death is no less sacred than life.
Posted 05.30.2012
Inventors killed by their own inventions? It happens. You may know that Nobel-winning chemist Marie Curie died from the effects of the radioactive...
Robert V. Taylor | Posted 05.24.2012
In spite of decades working with the dying and bereaved families, my familiarity with end-of-life choices, death and grief was now staring me in the face, reflecting the image of the woman who gave birth to me.
Gadadhara Pandit Dasa | Posted 05.24.2012
Even though it may sound attractive or may be easier to understand that God is formless energy, as far as I'm concerned, it's not possible to exchange love with formless energy
Huffington Post | David Moye | Posted 05.24.2012
Digging up a backyard can kill your back, but finding 13 tombstones are buried there could scare someone to death. That's the grave situation that ...
Matthew Hutson | Posted 05.22.2012
What do we think of people in persistent vegetative states, who can breathe but can't think? Mentally, they are dead, but since we're very aware of the body still lying there, we can't as easily imagine them as active characters in our lives.
Marie Marley | Posted 05.22.2012
The most important decision is to stop focusing on the loved one's approaching death and start figuring out everything that can be done to help them have the highest possible quality of life.
James Sims | Posted 05.21.2012
"I love you. Was just thinking how hard my fight has been and how tired I am... But then I thought about you and it gives me a shot of will power to keep going."
James M. Lynch | Posted 05.17.2012
You know we will all die, and hopefully have some sort of ceremony where loved ones and others get to say goodbye to us. But that inevitable death can make a big difference in the way we live our life today.
The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.15.2012
A number of families are losing not only their loved ones, but also their loved ones' tax refunds. Identity thieves have stolen the tax refunds of ...
Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 05.11.2012
Because of our exposure to and understanding of how people die, physicians, at least in my experience, tend to deal with death differently than those outside of the profession.
Claire Bidwell Smith | Posted 05.10.2012
Only you know what path you need to take toward healing, and whether you accomplish this using every one of the five stages, shunning books about grief or never missing a session of your bereavement group, the key will consistently be to listen to yourself.
The New York Times | Posted 05.10.2012
Growing up, we could count on Mother's Day to broadcast whose mother was dead or alive. As we stepped into church in our scuffed Mary Janes, we'd be g...
Patrice Bendig | Posted 05.08.2012
Instead of stressing about last minute present preparation like I do for most loved ones birthdays, I'm reflecting on my grandfather's life and his continuous influence on it.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.07.2012
Stay unemployed long enough, and you don't just bounce back once a job rolls around. People who have been out of work a long time tend to be unhapp...
Sarah Leavitt | Posted 05.04.2012
I've always had a really bad memory. So when my mother got Alzheimer's disease, I knew that I had to record what was happening to her and to our famil...
Mind Body Green | Melissa Rousseau | Posted 05.04.2012
On January 12, 2010 at 5am, after a year and a month of fighting, we lost her. My best friend, mother, and soul mate was gone from this world. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.03.2012
WASHINGTON -- Thirteen U.S. workers were killed on the job each day and roughly 50,000 died from work-related diseases in 2010, a worrisome increase i...
Carolyn Anderson | Posted 05.02.2012
Although it is a morbid exercise, I want you to think about what your obituary will read one day. What words will people use to describe you and how will you remembered?
Molly Hahn | Posted 05.02.2012
Posted 04.30.2012
Hollywood actress Diane Keaton's memoirs, "Then Again", was first published in November, and relied heavily upon her mother's personal journal. For th...
Dori Hartley | Posted 04.27.2012
I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg foresaw the inevitability of the public actually dying off the site. Nonetheless, when you die on Facebook, mourning is nothing like it is in real life.
Chandresh Bhardwaj | Posted 05.24.2012
When people ask me if world is going to end in 2012, the fear of dying is very visible in their eyes. Two issues are going on here: Fear and the panic about death. Let's touch both the issues one by one.
Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs | Posted 04.27.2012
Do you think that there is such a thing as "suffering from life"? Do you think that people should be able to make their own decision as to whether or not to end their life?
Logan Lynn | Posted 05.30.2012