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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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Learning to Die

Jim Selman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Examined Life, Wisdom, Astra Taylor, Dying, Dr. Judith Rich, Living, Socrates, Learning, Eldering, Living News
Jim Selman

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.

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Living Through Wanting to Die

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Suicide, Depression, Mark Goulston, Dying, Electroconvulsive-Therapy, Death, Health, Living News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

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.

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Writing Your Own Obituary

Jan Phillips | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Obituary, Genius, Crying, Death, Michael Jackson, Five Stages of Grief, Dying, Grief, Living News
Jan Phillips

We should give some thought to death, particularly our own. It helps us clarify what's really important.

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On (Public) Death and Dying

Christal Smith | Posted 08.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 9/11, Michael Jackson, 9/11 Widows, Celebrity, Dying, Death, Entertainment News
Christal Smith

Perhaps we find that immersing ourselves in the deaths of others is cathartic

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Dead At 32: What Jamie Dyer Dordek Can Teach You About Living

Eli Davidson | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Eli Davidson, Live Life to the Fullest, The Inner Life, The Full Life, Dying, Carpe Diem, Fulfillment, Death, Happiness, Living News
Eli Davidson

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 ...

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Why Our Stories Matter

Holly Robinson | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Gerbil Czar, Dad, In Search of Small Gods, A Million Little Pieces, Dying, James Frey, Mourning, The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter, Jim Harrison, Father, Gerbils, Mockingbird, Navy, Death, Living News
Holly Robinson

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 ...

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A Vigil for My Father, Leonard Shlain

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Leonard Shlain, Einstein, Albert Brooks, Dying, Physics, Picasso, Vigil, Kimberly Brooks, Jordan Shlain, Ina Gyemant, Living, Tiffany Shlain, Heisenberg, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

I asked him the other day while I was helping him add quotes to his newest book: "Are you afraid to die?" "No" he said." I'm not afraid to die. I just want to live."

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Solving Social Security

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 04.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Aging Parents, Social Security, Payroll Taxes, Dying, Care, Fica, Ponzi Scheme, Death, Bill Maher, Economy, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

Watching Bill Maher last week, I was arrested by his suggestion that those who qualify for Social Security and are well-off should not collect their g...

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Video: On Death And Dying

Therese Borchard | Posted 04.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Relationships, Dying, Personal Health, Happiness, Death, The Balanced Life, Living News
Therese Borchard

Have you ever witnessed a sudden death? It brings everything into perspective.... regarding the small stuff of life, and how everything is really smal...

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The Inauguration Through the Eyes of the Dying

John H. Tucker | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elderly, Dying, Terminally Ill, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Politics News
John H. Tucker

Bed-stricken and artificially oxygenated, tied down by tubular shackles and chains, these determined men and women see Jan. 20 not simply as Inauguration Day, but as a finish line.

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Where I Was

Mary Lou Song | Posted 12.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Dying, Barack Obama, Election, Memories, Voting, Death, American Stories, 2008 Election, Mothers, Living News
Mary Lou Song

When I learned Barack Obama had won the election, I was at home trying to watch every moment while still caring for my mother.

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How To Die Gracefully

Telegraph | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Dying, Coming to Terms With Death, Death, Living News

Death got a rave review the other day. That doesn't happen often. Just off one of London's traffic thoroughfares, there was a profound little exhibiti...

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What Happens When We Die

The Guardian (UK) | Rebecca Atkinson and Sarah Tavner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Dying, Death Cremation, Death Certificates, Death Embalmer, Death Pathology, Death Burial, Death Resomation, Death, Death Handlers, Death Funeral Arrangements, How to Arrange a Funeral, Living News

Dr Clare Gerada General practitioner When you die, you have to have your death certified by a doctor and a death certificate or a cremation certifica...

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