Category Archives: Death and living while dying
Hardly a mark?
Can you move away swiftly, leaving hardly a mark? :- Doug.
Want your people to remember you?
Do you want your people to remember you after your death? For how many years? What purposes does it serve? :- Doug.
Chapter titles 20 years past your death?
What are the chapter titles of your life ahead? And of your people 20 years after your death? :- Doug.
Make friends with death?
How might we make friends with our death? :- Doug.
After your name is forgotten
After your name is forgotten a generation or two on of what use were you? :- Doug.
Everyone dying is yet living. So….
Everyone dying is yet living. So…. The path of the living is moving to thinning, etherealizing. As I become diffuse I encompass more. My reach is wider. :- Doug.
I am dying
I am dying. So too all gender-based life forms. Expansively. As I write this I do not know where I am being taken by the words, the images, the rhythms and flows beneath them. :- Doug.
The numinous in POST
The numinous in POST is that people should be able to choose. The living have work to do right up to the very last minute—and if we over treat, over medicate, send them to the hospital, when they are trying … Continue reading →
How to die?
How to die? How to respond to dementia, Friend? :- Doug.
Profound this area of law
Profound is the area of law I get to work in, dealing with life, death, nursing homes, grandchildren. :- Doug.
Places lost or dark
Consider eldering and dementia, too. I am uplifted about what might possibly be going on in places we consider lost or dark to us. :- Doug.
After I left
After I left our meeting, I had a call for an emergency appointment. The person arrived a few minutes after I got back to my office. Her husband of 40+ years was in the hospital, unconscious. The doctors said he … Continue reading →
Play out your dying
Play out your own dying. What did you learn? :- Doug.
Your push prayers
Dying may be healing—giving the person wholeness and completeness. She or he may want this. Your push for treatment and prayers for restoration may be holding the person back. You may not be helping. Consider the possibilities. :- Doug.
Not wrong
People who are dying are not wrong. :- Doug.
Best time!
This is the best time of life! :- Doug.
Facets of dying
One thing that affects me about dying is that it is one of the profound times of life. One facet of the profundity is the connection with others. Another is its connection with something larger, ineffable. What other facets do … Continue reading →