Category Archives: Death and living while dying
you can yet give
What is the value you can yet give? :- Doug.
the best that can be done
What is the best that can be done in the end to find your wholeness? :- Doug.
Focus on living
Focus on living, not on limits, pain, dying, what you have lost or are losing. :- Doug.
“I’m going to beat this”
“I’m going to beat this”—could mean living meaningfully till then. This may no longer mean hope for your body but there can always be hope for life. :- Doug.
Is dying meaningful?
Is dying meaningful? :- Doug.
dying as healing
Have you seen dying be healing? :- Doug.
Tell me about a dying you witnessed
Tell me about a dying you witnessed. :- Doug.
make dying good
In what ways have you seen people make their dying good? :- Doug.
this time is profound
What have you seen around dying that’s profound? :- Doug.
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this time is sacred
What have you witnessed that showed you the time of dying is sacred? :- Doug.
Memento vivere
Remember to live while you’re dying. Memento vivere dum mori. :- Doug.
extreme medicalism
This is the dis-ease— dying under extreme medicalism This is the antidote— Imagination :- Doug.
dying hooked up
Dying hooked up to beeping machines is a failure of imagination :- Doug.
It takes all the imagination
It takes all the imagination together we can muster to live fully when we are dying :- Doug.
Let’s imagine
Let’s imagine days full of living with one another :- Doug.
Is it about how long you live
Is it about how long you live Or how much you live? How would you make your days Full of life? Some prefer quantity because they Can’t imagine How to fill days with life :- Doug.
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It is not right to give up
It is not right to give up We need to sustain Mother’s life But give up what? Beeping machines, blood draws at 2 am, Strangers changing her diaper? Holding a grandchild? Recognizing her husband? :- Doug.