Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Being aware of terminal lucidity can help loved ones understand it is part of the dying process.
After a decision to spare her further interventions, she lives a full two months more – and teaches us a few things along the way
Must grief for the climate diminish you, or can it do the opposite?
Proponents of legalising assisted dying are right to stop and think of the possible unintended consequences
A bereavement counsellor explains how to cope with the loss of a parent.
Then I talked to some end-of-life experts. Here’s what I found out.
On my to-do list sits one job that’s been there for months and hasn’t been ticked off.
Understanding how loss affects our brain and body can help us realize that healing from a loss takes time, and we need to be gentle during the grieving process.
Grief is raw, complex, often fraught — and "moving on" from a loss is rarely straightforward or linear.
Monatophobia means our terror of confronting the thing we dread most without the support of loved ones – the kind of death I wouldn’t mind for myself.
Once our most intensive interventions end, we are left with this — a choice of tuna fish or chicken salad, or maybe some Oreos, brought up from the hospital basement.
Sam Neill is in remission and back to doing what he loves.
Seeing works by Sophocles and Aeschylus in their native land imparts indelible lessons about pain and memory.
|
I have received many lovely messages in the weeks since my dad died – including one that will always stay with me, writes Adrian Chiles
Dr. Bob Ross cares for the aging residents of Ortonville, Minn, even as he wonders whether he, and the presidential candidates, are up to all their tasks.
Not everyone has moments of clarity when they find out they are dying. My wife did.
The art of developing a healthy relationship with our own mortality lies in neither avoiding the reality of suffering nor obsessing over it
I am shocked at how shocked I am. Why are we so unprepared when the inevitable comes to pass, asks Adrian Chiles
My daughter told us to look out for her after she was gone, and sometimes we find her.
Award-winning Australian writer Cory Taylor spent the last years of her life fascinated with her own mortality. In her last weeks, she shared some of her insights in a bedside interview with Richard Fidler.
A social worker explains ‘living loss’ and provides five ways for clinicians to help patients, and their families, acknowledge and move through their grief.
There are many social assumptions about how to best ‘get through’ grief. We interview 95 people about their experiences of loss and found we need to rethink what grief looks and feels like.
Medical aid in dying gave my sister a choice about how her life ended.
After Mike Horner died of a mysterious disease that dumbfounded doctors, his son, Nick, scaled Mount Everest to take the trip his father never did.
New book “Saved: Objects of the Dead” tells the stories behind dozens of possessions held onto by friends and relatives of the deceased, from a prosthetic leg to a metal colander.
|