Category Archives: Death and living while dying
Your heart, mind, body
What’s on your heart, mind, body? When you think about your end of life, do you feel it in some part of your body—your stomach, upper arms, feet? :- Doug.
Plan your EOL conversation
Ask yourself to plan your end of life conversation: What will you do? Is there someone you need to speak with? What bit of life is then most important? Where will you meet? When? :- Doug.
Earning a patina
Doctors propose to put you through something now to possibly give you more time later. This is a thought that fits middlers very well, but elders not so well. For elders living now earns a patina day by day. Hug … Continue reading →
Eye lights
Meeting about end of life matters, like any meeting, is a search for eye lights. :- Doug.
Refocus
Refocus Besides living longer What would make your life good? :- Doug.
Death is not failure
Failure is not death Death is not failure :- Doug.
Die every day
We die every day. Do we see? Do we learn how to do it better? :- Doug.
Dying is a conversation
Dying is a conversation we have with life and with those near us. It can be a rich give and take and being together in silence, or it can be a fading into nothingness. :- Doug.
Stay close
Stay close her life is unwinding more is being given from her for her Stay close conversations now are unweathered courses for you both a change of worlds Stay close :- Doug.
The conversation is difficult
The conversation is difficult to the extent we run away :- Doug.
Highest calling of the elder
Maybe the highest calling of the elder is to elder someone dying. :- Doug.
Every day closer to your death
Every day you are getting closer to your death. But does it frighten you? It may even be easier to ponder than previously. But real grief and fear is in the death of your dreams! Can you apply what helps … Continue reading →
Glowing
Glowing the ember turns from red :- Doug.
How ought we die?
How ought we die but lovingly? :- Doug.
Dyingly
Artfully, artfully screamingly, kickingly expansively there must be 50 ways dyingly :- Doug.
Ways to approach dying–
Ways to approach dying— with silent screaming as consuming medical challenge seeing hounds approaching as spiritual exercise as making great art expanding circles :- Doug.
The big hows
I help people with the big hows at the end of life: how they will get on, how they will pay for it, how they will complete a meaningful life. :- Doug.