Category Archives: Death and living while dying
Fireworks you like?
What kind of fireworks do you like best? What might that tell you about what end of life you’d like to live? :- Doug.
What’s important now?
What’s important at end of life? Living it! :- Doug.
Too early
A man told me that at his age he and his friends talk about these end of life questions, but “It is too early to make any decisions.” Well, not really. Now is the time to figure out personally, What … Continue reading →
We think we are not ready
End of life conversations are not difficult; they are just ones we think we are not ready to have.\ :- Doug.
Good choices
End of life is not hard choices, but good ones: joy, meaning, love. :- Doug.
Dying need not be a distressing time
Dying need not be a distressing time for it can be profound. :- Doug.
And the elder began to see
And the elder began to see, the young elder dimly, the seasoned one more clearly, death: more precisely the freedom of death. To know we shall die frees us to stand in the face of anything. :- Doug.
Medical people in an emergency
POST is limited to 4 things precisely because medical people in an emergency do not have time to make nuanced calls. :- Doug.
Aging away from despair of death
The truth is that as folks age they age away from the despair of death, sometimes to welcome it. The denial of death may be a youth and mid-age thing. :- Doug.
My parents died romantically
My parents died romantically Sympathetic heart attacks Ten minutes close together :- Doug.
die by the
Live by the TV, die by the TV. :- Doug.
All fear is of death
All fear is of death at heart, we want to matter life means…death matters :- Doug.
Who in your life died?
Who in your life died? Who left you alone? What did you feel? :- Doug.
Now’s the time
Now’s the time to think of end of life stuff—while you can be clear-headed and not under pressure to make too-fast decisions. :- Doug.
This is dying work
This is dying work This is work dying :- Doug.
A difficult dying
A difficult dying can be brought on by physical symptoms or attempts to control symptoms. (Maybe they are spiritual work going on that we should not seek to control in the first place.) But also by psychological or spiritual suffering. … Continue reading →
Do you want to die?
Do you want to die, or merely expire? :- Doug.