Monthly Archives: March 2015

Don’t burden your family

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

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trajectory of your disease

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?

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

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Let’s not argue

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

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have here is a failure to

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

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to make it to the wedding

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

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

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the best that can be done

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

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Focus on living

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”

“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?

Is dying meaningful? :- Doug.

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dying as healing

Have you seen dying be healing? :- Doug.

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Tell me about a dying you witnessed

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

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make dying good

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

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this time is profound

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

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this time is sacred

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

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braids life

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

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