This is a very good article that discusses the importance of physicians having the much needed discussion about end of life with their patients. “There is no ‘right’ answer for how patients should respond to a terminal illness. It’s a deeply personal decision based on a complex array of spiritual, social, financial and emotional needs.” Patients who are terminal can only make these tough choices if their doctor (s) are trained and able to share bad news. Yet many doctors…..
Our goal is to educate, provide information, share articles and resources, and to get discussions flowing. Death is a part of the life cycle. To be born, we will die one day. This is a fact. Our book encompasses so much. Besides providing resource material, references, and quotes, we have professionals and individuals who contributed chapters about their own client’s/patient’s deaths along with their own family’s and friend’s deaths. We cover the death of spouses and life partners, parents, children,…..
When someone whom we love dies, quite naturally we grieve. We have lost the connection to our loved one. So it seems. We have lost the place in our lives where we felt safe in the knowledge that our beloved was physically accessible, tangibly present. We feel lost. We miss the laughter in times of shared joy; we miss the tears in times of sorrow and times when our hearts connected in compassion. We miss the hugs, shared in every…..
I often use the word serendipity to describe sequences of events that have occurred in my life in recent years. Defined in my Google search as “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way,” serendipity is usually regarded as a “happy chance, a happy accident or fluke, good luck, good fortune, fortuity, providence, a happy coincidence.” I might not attach the word “happy” to my own experience of serendipity. I think of it instead…..