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End of Life Story Excerpts
Twelve Breaths: Lessons from the End of Life
Near the end of someone's life, many decisions need to be made by their family and friends as well as health care providers. Many of these choices are not easy: no one wants to authorize turning off a ventilator or pull the plug. Such decisions cause arguments, heartbreak and emotional trauma for those involved but personal stories are not often recounted due to not having a platform on[...]
Thanatology: Death Education
Derived from the Greek mythology of Thanatos, the daemon personification of death, thanatology is the academic study of dying, death and grief, and encompasses thoughts, feelings, attitudes, events and the psychological mechanisms of dealing with them.While the topic is wide-ranging, thanatology further includes sociology, biology, history, theology, psychology, economics, art and[...]
Dying Patient Leaves a Musical Legacy
Sheri Swick loved her three kids and four grandkids. She wanted to leave something for them to remember her by. She was in palliative care in a hospital in London, Ontario when Jill Kennedy-Tufts, the hospital's musical therapist, agreed to help Swick record a legacy. The hospital and Kennedy-Tufts have used this program to optimize the quality of life for palliative patients and their[...]
Regrets of the Dying for the Living
Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who has worked in palliative care for years spending her time caring for those people who know their time on this Earth is coming to an end. Bronnie plays an integral part in the last few weeks of people's lives and they often share many intimate times with Bronnie. She noticed through her personal discussions with them that certain patterns emerged[...]
Five People You Meet in Heaven
"There are no random acts. We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another, than you can separate a breeze from the wind."The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. In his best selling book, "The Five People you Meet in Heaven", Mitch Albom attempts to show how every life affects another in a thought provoking story of a man, who in death, learns the[...]
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