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April 26, 2017 • Planning and Making Choices, Legal Issues, Planning for your Death

Is Your Digital Life Ready for Your Death?

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April 24, 2017 • Caregiver roles, challenges and support, Advocating, Communicating with Family/Friends/Community, Communicating with the Providers & Health Care System, Long-term serious illness Care, Palliative Care, In-Patient Palliative Care (Hospital), Hospice, Grief, Helping someone who is grieving, Bereavement Support, Coping with Grief, At the end, Planning for your Death, Aid in Dying/Death with Dignity, "Good" death

BJ Miller: How Can We Prepare For A Graceful Death?

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

Elegy Elegy

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

After a Cancer Diagnosis, Reversing Roles With My Mother

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

Remembrance – My Mother Gave Me Music

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

Elegy

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

When Death Comes

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

A Green Burial-Stories

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

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

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

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

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

LIVES – Lawless Friendship

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

A Family Plot

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

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

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