Creating Death Friendly Communities The Baby Boomer Generation is ageing out, let’s make no mistake about that, it is a clear and present fact. This transition is significant in both its size and in the opportunities it is affording us. The demands this phenomenon will place on our systems of care will be triple what it can handle and most of us will have to die in the … [Read more...]
Perhaps Happiness is the Wrong Goal…
Here is a piece of writing I have been working on in my own life for sometime now… thought I would share it… Is Happiness the Appropriate Goal? I Will Be Happy When… In my own life and also in the lives of the people I know and folks I work with I often hear things like; • “I’ll be happy when my mortgage is paid off.” • “I’d be happier if I made a bit more money.” • “I will be … [Read more...]
Surviving Cancer and Loosing Our Youthful Innocence
There can be a beautiful innocence in living through our teenage years, a kind of what you don’t know about life yet glow. I remember this phase of growing up myself. It was lovely, a time of now worries and lots of time to be a full on teenager. Not yet in the adult systems of life there was a type of simple freedom in my teenage hood. Though this is not true for all of us it … [Read more...]
Our First Christmas Without Jody – The Importance of Planning Together
Jody passed away May 5th, 1988 and I remember that first Christmas Season without her was looming large in front of me as if it were yesterday. I recall wondering what the heck we were going to do without her to celebrate one of her favorite times of the year. So, as a family, we started to talk about what we could do to include Jody in our Christmas celebrations. Though the … [Read more...]
The Problem With Death… We Have Forgotten Who We Truly Are!
“Death has its own beauty, as does living. Death has its own poetry; one just has to learn its language, and one has to live in its depth. Then out of sadness itself comes a new kind of joy – which looks almost impossible, but it happens, I have known it.” Bagwan Shree Rajneesh – Death the Greatest Ficton It is hard to understand this amazing piece of … [Read more...]