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April 24, 2017 • Creative Arts, Cultural Resources, Personal Responses to Death and Dying

Elegy Elegy

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April 24, 2017 • Advocating, Advocating for someone else, Cancer, Caregiver roles, challenges and support, Communicating with Family/Friends/Community, Communicating with the Providers & Health Care System

After a Cancer Diagnosis, Reversing Roles With My Mother

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April 21, 2017 • Creative Arts, Goodbyes, Grief, Personal Responses to Death and Dying

Remembrance – My Mother Gave Me Music

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April 19, 2017 • At the end, Creative Arts, Cultural Resources, Personal Responses to Death and Dying

Elegy

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April 19, 2017 • "Good" death, Burial and alternatives, Funerals, Goodbyes, Rituals and Remembrances

A Green Burial-Stories

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April 19, 2017 • At the end, Creative Arts, Cultural Resources, Personal Responses to Death and Dying

Legendary Songwriter with Alzheimer’s Wins Grammy Award For His Final Epic Ballad!

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April 19, 2017 • "Good" death, Advocating for yourself, Aid in Dying/Death with Dignity, Legal Issues, Planning and Making Choices, Planning for your Death

Choices at the end of life: Brittany Maynard’s story

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April 19, 2017 • Complicated or disenfranchised grief, Coping with Grief, Goodbyes, Grief, Personal Responses to Death and Dying, Support Groups

Living With Cancer: Parting Gifts

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April 19, 2017 • Hospice, Personal Responses to Death and Dying, Planning and Making Choices, Planning for your Death

Living With Cancer: A Tour of Hospice

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April 19, 2017 • Complicated or disenfranchised grief, Coping with Grief, Goodbyes, Grief, Personal Responses to Death and Dying

LIVES – Lawless Friendship

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April 19, 2017 • Burial and alternatives, Personal Responses to Death and Dying, Rituals and Remembrances

A Family Plot

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April 19, 2017 • Communicating, Communicating with Family/Friends/Community, Communicating with the Providers & Health Care System, Terminology

VIEWPOINT: ‘Allow Natural Death’ vs. ‘Do Not Resuscitate’

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April 8, 2017 • "Good" death, Caregiver roles, challenges and support, Emotional and Spiritual Care, Hospice, Pain & Symptom Management

Finding the Meaning of Death in a Concert Hall

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April 7, 2017 • Advocating, Advocating for someone else, Communicating with the Providers & Health Care System, Difficult conversations, Personal Responses to Death and Dying

Family Perspective: Alzheimers

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April 7, 2017 • Difficult conversations, Grief, Legal Issues, Personal Responses to Death and Dying, Planning and Making Choices, Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking

Family Perspective: Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED)

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