Category Archives: Death and living while dying
Do you want to be present…?
Do you want to be present for your own death? :- Doug.
If death is ceasing to stand out….
If death is ceasing to exist, ceasing to stand out—and surely we see this when we think of our ancestors whom we never saw, with whom we never conversed: when they died they ceased to stand out to us and … Continue reading →
Yes, we’re going to die
Yes, we’re going to die but taking responsibility we can live through that too :- Doug.
To a dying client and her daughter
To a dying client and her daughter— What are you savoring of your presence to each other, your together-events? :- Doug.
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Flutter, flutter leaves!
Flutter, flutter leaves! Ready to fly from your tree! Will you carry me? :- Doug.
How doctors die
Friends– Here is a New York Times article that you will want to read. Check out some of its links, too! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/your-money/how-doctors-die.html?src=me&_r=0 :- Doug.
It’s justice for life
It’s justice I’m after a word spoken of lawyers whispered by lawyers only in their dreams shouted by the souls of us —all of us— approaching death It’s justice for life and the living of it :- Doug.
What do your relations need from you?
Imagine your seventh last day: What do your relations need from you? :- Doug.
Living later years and dying as sacred processes
How do we make living our later years and dying both sacred processes? :- Doug.
Compassion when?
When do we need to first consider compassion for those approaching death? Do we stop too soon? :- Doug.
Where compassion?
Where are our community’s nutrient places where compassion can first take root? Where in yourself are your senses of injustice, ethics, conscience and rage? Where in yourself can you find the strength and resolve to stand up for, to speak … Continue reading →
Compassion acts
What are the compassionate practices already at work in this place? What is this place? What can it be? Can compassionate community mean something concrete to this place? What specific skills and attitudes lead to compassionate caring for those approaching … Continue reading →
Compassion how?
How might we show compassion for each of the persons we have identified? What might compassion look like, beyond what we are already doing? What are the barriers and things which slow our compassion, and how might we get beyond … Continue reading →
For whom compassion?
For whom do we need to have compassion? The dying, their families, their nurses and doctors? Someone else? Who are our community’s exemplars of compassion? Who are the faces of compassion in our community? Whom should we invite to this … Continue reading →
It is a month or two off
It is a month or two off, you know it will be a gentle death, as gradual or short as you like. You have time to get used to the idea, time to gather special people around if you wish, … Continue reading →
Possible links: POST and compassion?
What are the possible links between POST and a compassionate community? :- Doug.
Where is love in POST?
Where is love in POST? Where is love in Conversation? Where is compassion? :- Doug.