Category Archives: Conversation

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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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We have withdrawn into our one person cars.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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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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If we can’t laugh

Posted on August 16, 2012 by dgermann

If we can’t laugh, what sanity is there? :- Doug.

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Something large we can give away

Posted on August 12, 2012 by dgermann

The something large we can give away is conversation: within the family, between patient and physician, between client and lawyer. Conversation informs, conversation reshapes, conversation creates. :- Doug.

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Denying each other

Posted on August 11, 2012 by dgermann

As to dying our own deaths consider how we deny each other our own deaths by chemotherapy continued too long, looking for a cure when healing is what we really want, not giving comfort measures, dying in a violent and … Continue reading →

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The right thing to do

Posted on August 10, 2012 by dgermann

It is the right thing to do, to start this conversation. Give away something big and important. :- Doug.

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An ethical question

Posted on August 9, 2012 by dgermann

Here is the ethical question I see: Ought we lawyers and doctors, parents and children to tell people of their right to their own death? Ought we with them to open the conversation about their choices, to help them choose? … Continue reading →

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Conversing with doctors

Posted on August 5, 2012 by dgermann

In conversations with Doctors I have found they are at a big loss, maybe bigger than the rest of us, about how to get this end of life conversation spreading. :- Doug.

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