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How Baby Boomers Will Change End of Life Care
The baby boomers, the largest generation in American history, are now almost all in the last third...
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LatestIs Dying At Home The Best Option?
“If time were short, where would you want to be?” As a palliative care clinician, I regularly ask my patients, or their family members, where they want to die. Having asked this of hundreds of patients, I have come to expect...
Desiderata
“Desiderata” is an early 1920s prose poem by the American writer Max Ehrmann A dear friend of mine is suffering through her terminal illness and she reminded me of this touching verse. Grounded in psychology,...
Read MoreThere’s Nothing More That Can Be Done!
Patient’s dread that statement and it simply is NOT true. I had a family from out of state whose father had experienced a prolonged and torturous death from cancer. He ended up going to the hospital looking for a miracle to keep...
Read MoreDeath Then And Now
Increase Mather, one of Puritan New England’s foremost ministers and scholars, died in 1723 at his home in Boston. As he lay “feeble and sore broken” upon his death bed, he faced his life’s end with...
Read MoreCats vs Computers In Predicting Death?
There is a story of a cat, Oscar that was apparently better than most doctors at predicting when a terminally ill patient was about to die. The story appeared, astonishingly, in The New England Journal of Medicine in the summer...
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Talking Death Cards
Talking Death Cards provide you with engaging questions that inspire deep and meaningful conversations among family, friends and colleagues in an easy to use playing card format.