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How doctors die

Posted on November 20, 2013 by dgermann

Friends– Here is a New York Times article that you will want to read. Check out some of its links, too! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/your-money/how-doctors-die.html?src=me&_r=0 :- Doug.

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It’s justice for life

Posted on November 20, 2013 by dgermann

It’s justice I’m after a word spoken of lawyers whispered by lawyers only in their dreams shouted by the souls of us —all of us— approaching death It’s justice for life and the living of it :- Doug.

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Can you afford to live to a ripe old age?

Posted on November 19, 2013 by dgermann

Can you afford to live to a ripe old age? :- Doug.

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What do your relations need from you?

Posted on November 18, 2013 by dgermann

Imagine your seventh last day: What do your relations need from you? :- Doug.

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Living later years and dying as sacred processes

Posted on November 17, 2013 by dgermann

How do we make living our later years and dying both sacred processes? :- Doug.

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Compassion when?

Posted on November 16, 2013 by dgermann

When do we need to first consider compassion for those approaching death? Do we stop too soon? :- Doug.

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Where are our community’s nutrient places where compassion can first take root? Where in yourself are your senses of injustice, ethics, conscience and rage? Where in yourself can you find the strength and resolve to stand up for, to speak … Continue reading →

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Compassion acts

Posted on November 14, 2013 by dgermann

What are the compassionate practices already at work in this place? What is this place? What can it be? Can compassionate community mean something concrete to this place? What specific skills and attitudes lead to compassionate caring for those approaching … Continue reading →

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Compassion how?

Posted on November 13, 2013 by dgermann

How might we show compassion for each of the persons we have identified? What might compassion look like, beyond what we are already doing? What are the barriers and things which slow our compassion, and how might we get beyond … Continue reading →

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For whom compassion?

Posted on November 12, 2013 by dgermann

For whom do we need to have compassion? The dying, their families, their nurses and doctors? Someone else? Who are our community’s exemplars of compassion? Who are the faces of compassion in our community? Whom should we invite to this … Continue reading →

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the story that holds them all

Posted on November 11, 2013 by dgermann

Story comes through conversing. Story uses conversation to weave movement, indeed to weave itself. We meet: we make a story together. The story is us, and the story is you and the story is me. We create each of these … Continue reading →

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To get beyond the old conversation:

Posted on November 10, 2013 by dgermann

To get beyond the old conversation, get beyond the old conversation: start a new one. A new conversation, more important, outflanking the troublesome one, overwhelming any interest in the old. Pull us in. Divert to the more significant conversation. :- … Continue reading →

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Let’s make conversation

Posted on November 9, 2013 by dgermann

Let’s make conversation conversation rich, textured and opening :- Doug.

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It is a month or two off

Posted on November 8, 2013 by dgermann

It is a month or two off, you know it will be a gentle death, as gradual or short as you like. You have time to get used to the idea, time to gather special people around if you wish, … Continue reading →

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Possible links: POST and compassion?

Posted on November 7, 2013 by dgermann

What are the possible links between POST and a compassionate community? :- Doug.

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Where is love in POST?

Posted on November 6, 2013 by dgermann

Where is love in POST? Where is love in Conversation? Where is compassion? :- Doug.

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Looking forward to seeing my grandchildren

Posted on November 5, 2013 by dgermann

Looking forward to seeing my grandchildren this evening, telling stories, playing. Young life! Possibilities and potential! :- Doug.

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