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Cats 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...
Read MoreDealing with Death During the Era of COVID-19
Nurses crying. That’s what I hear from fellow nurses on the front lines treating Covid-19 patients. A nurse will begin the shift crying and end it crying. Crying. And we are not a profession that cries easily. Frontline...
Read MoreWhen Can We Hug Again?
I am thinking of you all. My bedside nursing has significantly cut back over the last few weeks. Using video to interact with my patients has become my new tool in caring for the ill, the community and myself. I never fathomed I...
Read MoreNew Year’s Greeting for 2020!
As this year closes and we look forward to the New Year I wish for you “wise hope,” seeing things just as they are. “Wise hope,” writes philosophers and sages alike, “requires that we open ourselves up to what we do not know,...
Read MoreHalloween: Remembering the Dead
Halloween is one of the world’s oldest Holidays and is celebrated around the world. For us here in the states it is a night of dressing up and going door to door to collect treats. But for many cultures it is a time to...
Read MoreReaching For Inspiration
What books or sources of inspiration will we reach for when we know we will die soon? And do we seek these resources to prepare ourselves for death, as the ancient Egyptians did with the “Book of the Dead”? Or, do we want to...
Read MoreHappy 2019
May the New Year bring you gifts of peace and joy. May your home and heart be filled with love. All my best for the coming year.
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Burial and Memoriam
During a recent visit to New York City, I visited the DeathLAB. A group of architects and...
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Journey’s End
I had the great and terrible honor of being involved in the death of 7 people this month....
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It Could Have Been Otherwise.
I recently completed a writing class for individuals that have been affected by death and dying....
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Aid in Dying: My First Time
In September 2017, I was involved with a patient who enacted the Aid in Dying Act. It was my first...
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Jennifer’s Bear
There he was. So adorable, so soft, so cuddly. Smelling of vanilla and chocolate. And, the little...
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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.