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

Finding the Meaning of Death in a Concert Hall

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

Family Perspective: Alzheimers

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

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

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April 7, 2017 • Difficult conversations, Grief, Planning and Making Choices, Planning for your Death, Aid in Dying/Death with Dignity, "Good" death

Death with Dignity: A family perspective

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April 7, 2017 • Communicating, Personal Responses to Death and Dying, At the end

Why the Dying See Their Deceased Relatives Before They Go

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April 7, 2017 • Creative Arts, Planning for your Death, Rituals and Remembrances, Burial and alternatives, Funerals

Dragonfly’s Eye: Instructions for my Funeral

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February 27, 2017 • Caregiver roles, challenges and support, Navigating the Healthcare System

What do caregivers need most?

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February 27, 2017 • Planning and Making Choices, Planning for your Death, Rituals and Remembrances, Burial and alternatives, Funerals

Earth or Fire, Casket or Shroud? Funeral Rites are Changing

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February 27, 2017 • Rituals and Remembrances, Burial and alternatives

A Guide to Burial and Funeral Alternatives

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February 27, 2017 • Other

Palliative Care: What is It?

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