Category Archives: Death and living while dying
What ceremonies and doings?
What ceremonies, rituals, and doings around death have you seen people carry out? Especially those leading up to a good death? :- Doug.
Don’t try too hard
Woman to the paramedics attending her: “Don’t try too hard.” A lesson. :- Doug.
If you do go gentle
You can also grow from that dark night if you do go gentle :- Doug.
great growth and gentle
Death is for everyone gathered a potential for great growth and gentle :- Doug.
Death is a developmental stage
Death is a developmental stage for everyone involved embracing each and all beyond the dying one alone all owe all to have all voices heard :- Doug.
You’re growing
If you’re living, you’re growing. :- Doug.
You can’t save your parents from death
You can’t save your parents from death. As your parents find there are things they can no longer do, you are also losing something—your adequacy. You have not the money, the time, the energy, the wits to do everything for … Continue reading →
The living have work to do
The living have work to do What we can see Might not be all they are doing :- Doug.
Courage often goes with disability
Courage so often goes with disability Long deep fully conscious good-byes Aging requires of us more than all we’ve got :- Doug.
I might be doing powers of attorney so
I might be doing powers of attorney so Don can handle Mary’s banking and doctoring; I might be working with them through rearranging assets and gathering proofs so Mary can get relief from that six-times-their-income nursing home bill; I might … Continue reading →
Like wind you cannot hold
Illusory the life you grasp Like wind you cannot hold Only in its passing by have you had one :- Doug.
The last years
The last years, our last things we do and say for and to each other—these I want to explore for our family and legal growth. :- Doug.
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The line is crossed
We need a larger view of death and dying and particularly of life. Life includes what we call death. There is birth, there is death and there are the spaces in between. It is all of one fabric. Death can … Continue reading →
crinkle in the eye
My dream is to invite you out to play All of you and all of me Especially the parts with crinkle in the eye Questions alive! That might take us to new :- Doug.
a good day!
This is going to be a good day! :- Doug.
What do we want, in the end?
What do we want, in the end? A life ended Completed, fulfilled, finished Maybe, just maybe Rounded out :- Doug.
Reports from these domains?
Death and dementia—two domains from which people do not often report…or from which we do not often hear their reports. :- Doug.