This video of a OneRepublic song is woven with narration from, Brian, a young man living with cystic fibrosis.
This New York Times article, explores John Sheilds’ decision to choose the time of his death and to celebrate his life, leaving a legacy of courage with the support of his, doctor, friends and family.
In this song, Who Will Care for You?, Linda Allen explores the weariness and feelings of being overwhelmed that often are part of the caregiver’s experience.
Who Will Care for the Caregivers? “Some 40 million Americans give daily help to a parent, grandparent, relative or neighbor, assisting with basic things like dressing, bathing, cooking, medications or transportation…there’s more we medical professionals can do to improve the way we engage, support and educate them.”
Is Your Digital Life Ready for Your Death? You’ve probably thought about what will happen to your finances, your possessions and maybe even your real estate when you die. But what about your Facebook account? Or your hard-drive backups?
How Can We Prepare For A Graceful Death? About BJ Miller’s TED TALK : At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? BJ Miller is a palliative care physician who thinks about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients.
ELEGY ELEGY. Wordsworth wrote that poems are a place where emotions can be recollected in tranquillity and reproduced for the reader to experience. Poems also provide a more intellectual space where what troubles us can be dispassionately thought through — first by the poet, then by the reader. As in great philosophical poems, here there is…
After a Cancer Diagnosis, Reversing Roles With My Mother After Cancer Diagnosis : “I’d become my mother’s travel guide in this new country of illness.”
Remembrance – My Mother Gave Me Music Watch this remembrance. In this collage of a section from an interview in 2000 and the song written as her mother was dying, Marie Eaton reflects on the gifts of music her mother gave her and the tender gifts of caregiving at the end of life. Marie is…