Category Archives: Death and living while dying
peace
What do you find brings you peace…or whatever your life most desires? :- Doug.
grow a tomato
Grow a tomato, grow a rose, see the lake, for now: before I die :- Doug.
Write the story of your death
Write the story of your death—then have a conversation with this, your own Death. :- Doug.
little deaths
As we age we experience a progression of little deaths: loss of work, loss of health, loss of energy: losses on losses. We are taught the idea, some of us learn to go forward to peeling the onion all the … Continue reading →
Write a dialogue with Death
Write a dialogue with Death. :- Doug.
Between us, all we need
What if there were a connecting ease? All we have to do is settle into it? What if between us were all we needed, memory, consciousness, loving? :- Doug.
Want in death?
What do we want in our death? Meaning. Value. Capstone. :- Doug.
It can save your
Converse with your family now. It can save your death. :- Doug.
family voices
This is precisely where the family voices prove most valuable: we get various points of view, so we can make more rounded decisions. The conversation now makes the conversation later more united, more peaceful, more focused. :- Doug.
It helps you understand
Having the end of life conversation may be just as important to your understanding as to your family’s: You have wrestled with some of these questions so that when the actual question arises, you will know how to start picking … Continue reading →
Crystal figurines we put on a shelf
We seek safety first for our elders as if they were crystal figurines we put on a shelf behind a glass door: pretty to look at but not to touch! Nonsense! Are they still living? Then they are still creating. … Continue reading →
How old live?
How old do you want to live to be? :- Doug.
Curious about this road?
Do we dare wish to travel the road to death? Can we be curious—even supremely curious—about it? :- Doug.
Your most essential thing?
What is your most essential thing? About dying? :- Doug.
too much treatment?
Is the worry that you will get too much treatment, or too little? :- Doug.
How healthy?
How healthy do you want to be when you die? :- Doug.
You will not die from it!
The purpose of the conversation exercise is to let you experience that talking about death—even your own death—is not scary—and you will not die from it! :- Doug.