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About dgermann

Elder Caring Lawyer

Granny Suites?

Posted on September 12, 2012 by dgermann

Friends– Know any builder who’d like to offer these here? http://www.startribune.com/business/169047386.html :- Doug.

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True family:

Posted on September 12, 2012 by dgermann

True family is I-Thou. :- Doug.

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Life fulfilling conversation

Posted on September 11, 2012 by dgermann

The threshold of holy space is Life fulfilling conversation Here, between, The holy space Is In this family, is Here Every here Yet evanescent :- Doug.

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Video: Tom Brokaw and friend on end of life

Posted on September 10, 2012 by dgermann

Friends– Here is a Tedx video featuring Tom Brokaw. I think you will enjoy it. http://tedx.stanford.edu/speakers/dr-jennifer-brokaw/

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Why it is difficult to converse with loved ones:

Posted on September 10, 2012 by dgermann

Since we must free the Thou for us to enter connection with Thou It is difficult for us to converse with loved ones Yet to live this paradox is to live We must free these very ones from our control … Continue reading →

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Death is like “E.R.”

Posted on September 9, 2012 by dgermann

Death can be likened to “E.R.” How can there be an E.R. after George Clooney leaves? And yet he said his later lines and was gone…and the show went on. :- Doug.

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Immortality, family style

Posted on September 8, 2012 by dgermann

This is immortality, family style: To start a relation that can never end. When we meet grandchild or grandparent and see into and with their being, when we see the future and the past as one thread—our thread, when we … Continue reading →

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One person cars

Posted on September 4, 2012 by dgermann

We have withdrawn into our one person cars. We won’t give up our cell phones for a meal with our mates or children. Our most imperative deepest felt inborn need is to meet and be part of one another on … Continue reading →

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Starting the end of life conversation

Posted on September 1, 2012 by dgermann

It’s easier for a lawyer to start the end of life conversation because we start it earlier, when it is less immediate, and less complicated with urgent and intense medical and emotional issues. We can prepare people. :- Doug.

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When we change our choices

Posted on August 31, 2012 by dgermann

When we change our choices, it is often that something new informs the criteria upon which we base our choices: our fundamentals have remained constant. :- Doug.

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When we seek to hold off death

Posted on August 30, 2012 by dgermann

When we seek to hold off death are we extending suffering? Do we increase the length of pain? Could we increase what’s good in death? What do we value? Consciousness, control of pain, interchange with family, friends, spirituality, religion, music, … Continue reading →

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Is dying important?

Posted on August 29, 2012 by dgermann

Is dying important? Is being born? Is how we die important? Important for what? For whom? :- Doug.

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Dying well?

Posted on August 28, 2012 by dgermann

Do you know someone who died well? Do you know someone who was prevented from dying well? :- Doug.

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Effortlessly the eagle wheels

Posted on August 27, 2012 by dgermann

Effortlessly the eagle wheels Wings have found A thermal lifting, lifting … … … CPR! Crash carts! Staccato orders! Beep, beep, beep Screaming flat lines! Raging, raging Against The dying of the light … … … Too much, too much … Continue reading →

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Living our dying

Posted on August 22, 2012 by dgermann

What is important about people choosing their own way of living their dying? :- Doug.

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Your end of life conversation?

Posted on August 21, 2012 by dgermann

What would you like your end of life conversation with your family to be? :- Doug.

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Conveners of the conversation

Posted on August 20, 2012 by dgermann

As lawyers we are conveners of the conversation. Every time we meet clients, every time we lift the phone or write an email, every time we talk with anyone we convene a conversation. We can consciously use these conversations for … Continue reading →

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