Category Archives: Death and living while dying
Get over answers
Get over needing an answer. :- Doug.
Diminishes frees lays
Every death diminishes me perhaps frees me and others lays on me responsibility :- Doug.
Before they died
People die and the world changes and probably changed before they did :- Doug.
Neither causes the other
Just because death comes after age does not mean one causes the other. :- Doug.
Dying in time to live
Almost die In age we can See what does not matter We’re not facing our death Better dying in time to live :- Doug.
Alex Trebek’s pancreatic cancer
Alex Trebek, the host of the TV show Jeopardy, announced recently that he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He said he plans to fight it. That saddens me. On a personal level, fighting to keep what one has when it … Continue reading →
Death is not a risk
Death is not a risk It happens to us all :- Doug.
Choosing level of pain medication
I would like to choose my own level of pain medication at dying time—and level of consciousness. :- Doug.
Right on past
We may be growing right on past our aging and death. :- Doug.
Human end to life?
What is a human end of life? Full bore technology, do everything? Let nature take its course? Comfort measures? Each person to her own? :- Doug.
Saw us open
Disease Divorce Debility Death Fillet us, saw us open Raggedly, display our gizzards Here meet profundity The curious craft of vulnerability :- Doug.
I work on living and dying
I work on living and dying the inevitability of a life growing as it is gathering in dying as it is leading us to experience fullness of living :- Doug.
Holding space for dying
Someone is going to be holding space for a woman planning her funeral with her family; might we hold space for folks planning their dying—living while dying? Or even their elder years? :- Doug.
Write out my death
Write out my death. :- Doug.
Need to live
The dying need to live. :- Doug.
Improve lives–and deaths
We elder caring lawyers have an attitude beyond being purveyors of legal documents—we want to improve lives—and deaths. Let’s see how to apply that to lowly POAs. :- Doug.
End of Life Conversations: Have them for yourselves
If you are going to help people with these conversations, you need to have them for yourselves. Note I did not say by yourselves. You need to have them with your loved ones; and for them. For it is a … Continue reading →