My Father Is Dying
Deep in a rustic canyon, tucked away in the bedroom of his beautiful glass home, wrapped tightly in a hospice hospital bed, buried behind the damage of another stroke, my father is dying.
Deep in a rustic canyon, tucked away in the bedroom of his beautiful glass home, wrapped tightly in a hospice hospital bed, buried behind the damage of another stroke, my father is dying.
hosted.ap.org | Matt Sedensky | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
Unlike most Americans, Lillian Landry made her end-of-life decisions years ago: no heroic measures to save her and even instructions on the bar where ...
nytimes.com | Gina Kolata | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
Ms. Smith, a tall, imposing woman, takes on the character of her subjects by repeating their exact words, complete with regional accents, ums and uhs ...
beliefnet.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
When a person you care about is hurting, you hurt, too. When that person is grieving the loss of a loved one, there are some steps you can take to eas...
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
It is an interesting dichotomy - one group seems to open with age, the other seems to close. With openness, it seems that death is much less frightening as if it is merely another viewpoint of sorts.
The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books
Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN, spoke to Stephen Colbert last night about his new book, Cheating Death. He explained that there's m...
divinecaroline.com | Alison Schroeder (View Profile) | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living
My dad passed away on May 2, 2009 at the age of 52 after a courageous battle with colon cancer. What a guy! In his lifetime he was happily married to ...
Rachael Freed | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
Older adults are developing new values and new perspectives: redefining self, relationships, and fundamental existential questions like time, space, life, and death.
Jason Mannino | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living
Fifteen years ago at my grandmother's funeral was the last time I saw my dad. Two weeks ago I was standing in front of him face to face. It wasn't the visit I had hoped for. He had departed his body 3 days earlier, and I was in attendance at his funeral.
Yahoo | Associated Press | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
More than 8 million Americans seriously consider suicide each year, according to a new government study. About 32,000 suicides occur in the United St...
ABC News | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
It may have helped that Swayze, a dancer, stayed in shape his whole life, and remained active even after his diagnosis. He filmed a full season of the...
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
I went to a memorial service yesterday for a friend's mother who died at 99. It was full of some 50+ people who knew this extraordinary woman - an ordinary mom who revealed the extraordinary in everyday life.
intent.com | Dr. Roberta Temes | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
It is an honor to commemorate the life of a person who has recently died. Are you preparing a eulogy? Here's some help from Dr. Roberta Temes, who s...
Paul Loeb | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Given the size of my existing medical debt, a second miracle remission is simply out of the question. The resulting stress would prove to be fatal.
Idol Chatter | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
Losing a parent is a life phase, something we're conditioned mentally and perhaps biologically to endure. Losing a child so reverses the pattern tha...
Rose Winters | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living
There are very few irrefutable facts in this world that remain absolute. This is one: We all die. Yet it is a topic that rarely enters our conversations.
Pew Social & Demographic Trends | By Kim Parker, Pew Research Center | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living
The national debate over health care reform has focused new attention on the decisions people make about medical care at the end stages of life. Publ...
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Our health care system doesn't need to be fixed, because it wasn't working. Our health care system needs a complete systemic make over.
msn.com | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - In a white-walled hospital room, pancreatic cancer slowly drained all the life that remained in Carolyn. There was nothing more t...
Jim Selman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living
Learning to die is really learning to live. It is 'letting go' of the past and the future and allowing ourselves to experience the serenity of just being alive.
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
Devastating illnesses can bring patients to the brink of a seemingly agreeable suicide. The role of the psychiatrist can be to look coldly through the pain and determine if there is a way to save the patient's life and make it worth enduring.
Jan Phillips | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
We should give some thought to death, particularly our own. It helps us clarify what's really important.
Christal Smith | Posted 08.02.2009 | Entertainment
Perhaps we find that immersing ourselves in the deaths of others is cathartic
Eli Davidson | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living
I didn't meet Jamie until after she died. Think life is certain? Guess again. Jaime was a blaze of florescent colors until she stepped off a curb ...
Holly Robinson | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living
The last time I called my father, he asked me what time it was. "Don't you have a watch, Dad?" I asked. "No, they always take those away when you ...
Judy Wieder | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living