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Love, loss and friendship: Getting over the death of a child

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, Support, Women, Holidays, Meningococcal Disease, Meningitis, Living News, Loss, Support Group, Friendship, National Meningitis Association, Lynn Bozof, Health, Grief, Mom, Living, Vaccine, Nma, Dying, Death, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

There is no pain greater than the loss of a child. Parents who have suffered such a tragedy say that they never get over it; at best, they get through...

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Hospice Offers Care Near End Of Life

nytimes.com | JANE E. BRODY | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Death, Hospice, Aging, Dying, Death & Dying, Living News

Hospice workers never know what they may find when they enter the homes of people whose doctors expect them to die within six months. But they are pre...

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5 Ways To Cope With Holiday Grief

intent.com | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Holidays, Depression, Dying, Grief, Thanksgiving, Death and Dying, Mourning, Coping, Losing-a-Loved-One, Loss, Holiday Season, Sadness, Anxiety, Gratitude, Death, Living News

Behind our holiday smiles and good wishes, many of us carry feelings of deep grief.� So how can we have a wonderful holiday if we are experiencing s...

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The Meaning Of Gratitude

Lee Lipsenthal, M.D. | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Being Thankful, Life Enhancement, Dying, Gratitude, Grateful, Joy, Death & Dying, Living News
Lee Lipsenthal, M.D.

When I was diagnosed with a "bad" cancer, I was somewhat pleased with the fact that I didn't have fear of death and that, in fact, it might just be a good day to die.

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Baxter, The World's Oldest Working Therapy Dog Comforted The Dying

Janet Kinosian | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Hospice, World's Best Therapy Dog, Therapy Dog, Animal Therapy, Dying, Baxter Bussey, End-of-Life, Hospice Care, Baxter, Dog, World's Oldest Therapy Dog Dies, World's Oldest Therapy Dog, Death, Death & Dying, Living News
Janet Kinosian

As an end-of life therapy dog doing sensitive and compassionate end-of-life work, Baxter's job was to comfort those who lay dying while giving intimate aid to those on their transition from life to death.

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At a Chinese Funeral: Eternal Honor

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Eulogies, Bereveavement, Dying, Shanghai, Chinese Culture, Chinese Funeral, China, Culture, Death, Living News
Tom Doctoroff

In all cultures, key milestones crystallize the nature of individual identity. This event, one that took place in twenty-first century Shanghai, city of new dreams and neon buzz, was no different.

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My Father Is Dying

Judy Wieder | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Bereavement, After-Death, Family, Lgbt, Dying, The Advocate, Mourning, Parenting, Loss, Death, Acceptance, The Inner Life, Death & Dying, Grief, Coping, Fatherhood, Judy Wieder, Fathers, Living News
Judy Wieder

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.

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Few Americans Make End-Of-Life Wishes Known

hosted.ap.org | Matt Sedensky | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Aging, Americans, Dying Wish, Dying, End of Life Care, Relationships, Grief, Health, Mourning, Death and Dying, Loss, Health Care, Nursing Home, Death, Living News

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 ...

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Broadway Play Tackles Issues of Death

nytimes.com | Gina Kolata | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Broadway Play, Women, Fear, Dying, Mourning, Death and Dying, Broadway, Loss, Death, Grief, Anna Deavere Smith, Coping, Hurricane Katrina, Cancer, Health Care, Lance Armstrong, Living News

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 ...

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How To Comfort The Grieving

beliefnet.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Bereavement, Dying, Comfort, Death and Dying, Mourning, The Inner Life, Grieving, Death, Living News

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...

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Two Kinds Of Deaths

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Creativity, Fear, Aging, Dying, Jack LaLanne, Novelty, Death, Death & Dying, Death and Dying, Susan Smalley, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

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.

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WATCH: Sanjay Gupta And Stephen Colbert On Cheating Death

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Dying, Medicine, Cheating Death, Authors, Health, Death, Books, Colbert Report, Sanjay Gupta, Stephen Colbert, Cnn, Books News

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...

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Grieving The Loss Of My Dad

divinecaroline.com | Alison Schroeder (View Profile) | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Death, Dying, Death & Dying, Living News

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 ...

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Legacy: A New Vision of Aging

Rachael Freed | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Church of the Brethren, Aging, Dying, Purpose, Writing, Ethical Will, Legacy, Gerotranscendence, Reminiscense, Death, Living News
Rachael Freed

Older adults are developing new values and new perspectives: redefining self, relationships, and fundamental existential questions like time, space, life, and death.

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Lessons in Loving While My Father Was Dying

Jason Mannino | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Castro, Welfare, Florida, Lung Cancer, Gay, Cancer, Dying, Death, Death & Dying, Death and Dying, Living News
Jason Mannino

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.

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8 Million Americans Consider Suicide

Yahoo | Associated Press | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Depression, Depression Treatment, Suicide, Suicides, Death, Dying, Death and Dying, Death & Dying, Substance Abuse, Young Americans, Attempted-Suicide, Lifestyle, Living News

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...

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Swayze: Lifestyle Choices May Have Prolonged Life

ABC News | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Dancing, Patrick Swayze Dead, Dying, Swayze, Wellness, Health, Patrick Swayze, Death, Living News

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...

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One Vibrant Life

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Aging, Wisdom, Love, Dying, Death & Dying, Death, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

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.

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How to Write a Eulogy

intent.com | Dr. Roberta Temes | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Funerals, Speech, Eulogy, Dying, Death and Dying, Dying With Dignity, Death, Funeral, Wellness, Living News

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...

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Life Lessons From a Dying Friend

Paul Loeb | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert-Gordon, Open Letter, Dying, Health, Health Care Reform, Lupus, Living, Personal, Moving, Barack Obama, Life, Politics News
Paul Loeb

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.

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Watch: Grieving U.S. Moms Find Solace In Africa

Idol Chatter | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherland, Cope, Dying, Grief, Death and Dying, Motherland Film, Losing a Child, Motherland Movie, Grieving, Death, Living News

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...

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Death, Fear and The Elephant In The Room

Rose Winters | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care, Death Panel, Dr. Elisabeth KüBler Ross, Dying, Death & Dying, Elisabeth KüBler Ross, Afterlife, Death, Living News
Rose Winters

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.

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How Americans Cope With End Of Life Decisions: Study

Pew Social & Demographic Trends | By Kim Parker, Pew Research Center | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: End-of-Life, Medical, Dying, Medicine, End of Life, American Attitudes Toward Death, Health, Death, Living News

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...

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Our Health Care System Does Not Need Fixing

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Dying, Surgery, Children, Children's Health Insurance, Health, Health Care Reform, Sicko, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Children's Health, Healthcare, Politics News
Olivia Rosewood

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.

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'Prescriptive Music' Comforts The Dying

msn.com | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Prescriptive Music, Dying, Music, End of Life, Death, Comfort, Living News

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - In a white-walled hospital room, pancreatic cancer slowly drained all the life that remained in Carolyn. There was nothing more t...

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