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• in Film
  Death With Dignity: How to Die in Oregon (2011; now on DVD)
  Would you want the right to choose when it’s your time?
  by missbobetier / on Feb 6, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “end of life”

 

• Health Affairs Briefing: The Care Span For The Elderly And Disabled

  
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  On Tuesday, June 5, Health Affairs will hold a briefing to discuss its June 2012 issue, “Focus On The Care Span For The Elderly And Disabled.” The volume explores a wide range of topics — from avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions, to coordination of care for dual eligibles, to reforming Medicare ...
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• Honor the Human-Animal Bond at the End of Life

  
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  One of the benefits of writing blogs is the opportunity to meet interesting and caring people.  Valarie Hajek Adams, from Stevens Point, WI is one of those people. She first responded to our blog on “Are You Suffering from Compassion Fatigue,”  which we  followed with “ Solutions to “Compassion Fatigue in ...
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• Letting Go

  
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  This morning, Anna Stookey joined me on Your Caregiving Journey to talk about why it’s so hard to let go. You can listen to our show via the player below. Our discussion geared on letting go when we know we’re at the end–of a job, a relationship, of life. We talked about the tension that can come from ...
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• Oh, My Drip Irrigation System

  
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  This post is dedicated to Catherine Hope, Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop leader and fellow work-shoppers Bill, Heather, Meg, Molly and Catherine It has spread its tentacles throughout my entire garden, front and back.  And yet, it is barely seen.  Fat black hoses feed into smaller green tubes underground. The ...
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• ExtraOrdinary ebook -- "hot new release" in Death & Grief

  
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  Amazon.com is listing the Kindle edition of the newest book from Pearlsong Press, ExtraOrdinary: An End of Life Story Without End, as one of its Hot New Releases in the Death & Grief category. Rankings appear to move hourly relative...
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• What Would Help You Do What’s Difficult?

  
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  This week’s New York magazine is out with a cover story like no other. In the article, “A Life Worth Ending,” Michael Wolff details the last years of his mother’s life, which he describes as a “horror show.” “What I feel most intensely when I sit by my mother’s bed is a crushing sense of guilt for ...
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• Bankrupt scoundrel lawyer

  
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  Lawyer plundered his ailing aunts £400,000 estate by changing their wills and decimating their bank accounts A solicitor plundered the estate of his elderly aunts and changed their wills when they were in hospital, a court heard yesterday. Michael...
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• Losing sight of the fact that living a good life includes a good death

  
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  Lets not be afraid to talk about death writes the Archbishop of York. In a society where people are living longer and medical science is enabling us to add more years to our span of life, we should not...
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• More praise for ExtraOrdinary: An End of Life Story without End

  
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  "A beautifully written story about the incomparable Herman Liss, told by the daughter who adored him for 30 years and the young boy who knew him for only one. Through their words they shine a brilliant light on a remarkable...
  1 week ago

• Elder wisdom -- ExtraOrdinary: An End of Life Story without End

  
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  "In a world where our Western elders have forfeited their own wisdom, here is a book that calls them back, that tells them the road is possible. Even greater, it denies nothing of their struggle, but uses that as the...
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• HIT Journalist becomes patient advocate after seeing the danger of uncoordinated care and poorly designed workflows--Ileana Balcu

  
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  Neil Versel, a HIT journalist, relates a very touching story of his father’s care at two different hospitals: one was uncoordinated and prone to errors and near misses, another one was quite a good experience. Unfortunately Neil’s father had a rare poorly known disease (MSA) and he died from it. The whole story ...
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• A true-life tale of transformation -- ExtraOrdinary: An End of Life Story without End

  
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  "This is a true-life tale of transformation. In the pages of ExtraOrdinary you will enter into a sacred space where illusory divisions dissolve and the lines between this world and the next are thin. Through tears and laughter you will...
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• Speaking Of Dying by Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®

  
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  Amy Berman, a registered nurse who works in New York City, is dying. She is in her early 50s, just a little bit younger than me. We have never met. I know Berman’s story because she has written extensively about her experiences, her choices, and her thoughts on how society handles end-of-life care. The Washington ...
  3 weeks ago

• Finding a tidy end to our lives

  
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  The year is 2029. After discussing schedules, Ive picked early afternoon April 28 as my day. That works for most of us. My wife will have returned from her conference. My sisters can fly in after their dance recital. My brother rescheduled his interviews. Cousins can drive in from the coast. Some nieces and nephews ...
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• Restorative Justice

  
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  One of the things I love about Facebook is my exposure to new "stuff". Ive heard the term "restorative justice" before, but have never looked into it, and therefore never really understood what it was all about. Facebook is opening my already open mind on a daily basis. It is a portal to my continuing education. But ...
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• Maybe Dad Really Meant It When He Said “I’m Fine.”

  
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  We’ve been hearing a lot about the recent research showing that elders are happier than twenty-somethings.  In fact, it looks like they are happier than anyone—even at the very end of life. Many are skeptical of this research.  From an adult standpoint, an elder’s decline, frailty, pain and illness are quite ...
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• Bioethics as a Force for Change — Health Care Policy, Financial Systems, and Environmental Conservation

  
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  “A call to arms” may be a bit martial for many bioethicists, but we live in perilous times. Meaningful action is needed across the board with respect to the functioning of government, whether federal, state, or local. We are confronted with the effects of benighted policies (or lack of policies and lack of ...
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• Learning From Amy Berman: Barriers To Palliative Care And How We Might Overcome Them

  
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  Editor’s note: You can hear Amy Berman discuss her April Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay at the recent release event for the April issue. You can also join Amy tomorrow (May 1) at noon for live online chat hosted by the Washington Post, which will also be publishing an abridged version of her essay. In [...]
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• Mozilla dispatches Firefox 3.6, fills its chair with version 13 beta

  
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  If you’ve been defiantly clinging onto Firefox 3.6 by your fingertips, bad news. Mozilla is officially putting it to sleep — whether you like it or not — by auto-updating users to version 12. You’ve still got a few days to bid your emotional farewells, with the switchover being pegged as early May. But, the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mozilla dispatches Firefox 3.6, fills its chair with version 13 beta

  
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  If youve been defiantly clinging onto Firefox 3.6 by your fingertips, bad news. Mozilla is officially putting it to sleep -- whether you like it or not -- by auto-updating users to version 12. Youve still got a few days to bid your emotional farewells, with the switchover being pegged as early May. But, the browsers ...
  4 weeks ago

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