Category Archives: Death and living while dying
Starting the end of life conversation
It’s easier for a lawyer to start the end of life conversation because we start it earlier, when it is less immediate, and less complicated with urgent and intense medical and emotional issues. We can prepare people. :- Doug.
When we change our choices
When we change our choices, it is often that something new informs the criteria upon which we base our choices: our fundamentals have remained constant. :- Doug.
When we seek to hold off death
When we seek to hold off death are we extending suffering? Do we increase the length of pain? Could we increase what’s good in death? What do we value? Consciousness, control of pain, interchange with family, friends, spirituality, religion, music, … Continue reading →
Is dying important?
Is dying important? Is being born? Is how we die important? Important for what? For whom? :- Doug.
Dying well?
Do you know someone who died well? Do you know someone who was prevented from dying well? :- Doug.
Effortlessly the eagle wheels
Effortlessly the eagle wheels Wings have found A thermal lifting, lifting … … … CPR! Crash carts! Staccato orders! Beep, beep, beep Screaming flat lines! Raging, raging Against The dying of the light … … … Too much, too much … Continue reading →
Living our dying
What is important about people choosing their own way of living their dying? :- Doug.
Your end of life conversation?
What would you like your end of life conversation with your family to be? :- Doug.
What is more important than that?
In family, in community, we can help each other live well. What is more important than that? :- Doug.
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If we can’t laugh
If we can’t laugh, what sanity is there? :- Doug.
Something large we can give away
The something large we can give away is conversation: within the family, between patient and physician, between client and lawyer. Conversation informs, conversation reshapes, conversation creates. :- Doug.
Denying each other
As to dying our own deaths consider how we deny each other our own deaths by chemotherapy continued too long, looking for a cure when healing is what we really want, not giving comfort measures, dying in a violent and … Continue reading →
The right thing to do
It is the right thing to do, to start this conversation. Give away something big and important. :- Doug.
An ethical question
Here is the ethical question I see: Ought we lawyers and doctors, parents and children to tell people of their right to their own death? Ought we with them to open the conversation about their choices, to help them choose? … Continue reading →
In the book of life
In the book of life we each have some chapters yet no chapter is life’s end maybe one is the last in which you appear or maybe you set in motion what comes after or make meaning of who or … Continue reading →
Conversing with doctors
In conversations with Doctors I have found they are at a big loss, maybe bigger than the rest of us, about how to get this end of life conversation spreading. :- Doug.
Death is not
Death is not the enemy of life rather a part of it of me rather one of my chapters :- Doug.