Monthly Archives: March 2015

Don’t burden your family

Posted on March 31, 2015 by dgermann

Don’t burden your family…with decisions about your health care. :- Doug.

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trajectory of your disease

Posted on March 31, 2015 by dgermann

Which trajectory do you see for your disease? Up, down, a bump in the road? Draw it, please. :- Doug.

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What does a longer life look like?

Posted on March 31, 2015 by dgermann

What does a longer life look like? After this? :- Doug.

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Let’s not argue

Posted on March 31, 2015 by dgermann

Let’s not argue Let’s not fight Simply invite :- Doug.

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have here is a failure to

Posted on March 30, 2015 by dgermann

What we have here is a failure to imaginate. :- Doug.

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to make it to the wedding

Posted on March 30, 2015 by dgermann

If you want to make it to a wedding or graduation, how? How do you want to be there? What will it look like? Will you be using a walker or in a wheelchair? In a bed with a ventilator … Continue reading →

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you can yet give

Posted on March 30, 2015 by dgermann

What is the value you can yet give? :- Doug.

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the best that can be done

Posted on March 29, 2015 by dgermann

What is the best that can be done in the end to find your wholeness? :- Doug.

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Focus on living

Posted on March 29, 2015 by dgermann

Focus on living, not on limits, pain, dying, what you have lost or are losing. :- Doug.

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“I’m going to beat this”

Posted on March 29, 2015 by dgermann

“I’m going to beat this”—could mean living meaningfully till then. This may no longer mean hope for your body but there can always be hope for life. :- Doug.

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Is dying meaningful?

Posted on March 28, 2015 by dgermann

Is dying meaningful? :- Doug.

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dying as healing

Posted on March 28, 2015 by dgermann

Have you seen dying be healing? :- Doug.

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Tell me about a dying you witnessed

Posted on March 28, 2015 by dgermann

Tell me about a dying you witnessed. :- Doug.

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make dying good

Posted on March 28, 2015 by dgermann

In what ways have you seen people make their dying good? :- Doug.

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this time is profound

Posted on March 27, 2015 by dgermann

What have you seen around dying that’s profound? :- Doug.

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this time is sacred

Posted on March 27, 2015 by dgermann

What have you witnessed that showed you the time of dying is sacred? :- Doug.

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braids life

Posted on March 27, 2015 by dgermann

Conversing braids life. Or maybe the other way around, around. :- Doug.

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