… please visit the newly added Food and Water for the Journey at Life’s End … We provide for the person in their need … the question is always “What does this person need – in terms of food and water?” … never “Should we give this person food and water (… a feeding tube)?”
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Frank Ostaseski’s Five Precepts of Service lend a strong foundation to the work of accompaniment … The Second Precept: Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience In the process of healing others and ourselves we open to both our joy and fear. In the service of this healing we draw on our strength and helplessness,
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… John Wooden on death … and life … Lindsey Yourman at Geripal alerts us to a video of John Wooden discussing death and life (entire Rick Reilly interview here) … and reciting the poem below. Another tribute (with lots of links) to Wooden here. “Once I was afraid of dying, Not Anymore” by Swen Nater
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… encounter with reality … In the soothing softness of the modern world, the mass of traditional rules which gave consistency to life broke up as the frozen surface of a stream breaks up in spring … Thanks to the progress of technology, the greater part of the restraints imposed on us by the cosmos
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… or community empowerment? … Atul Gawande’s take offers a fascinating reminder of the history of Medicare as well as a Boston hospital’s quality improvement efforts for children with asthma.
health reform … government takeover … Read More »
… a decision to die … Of Gods and Men won Gran Prix at Cannes this year. “A monastery high in the mountains of the Maghreb, some time in the 90s… Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers. But violence and terror are slowly taking hold of the region. Despite the
Schwenkler’s musings must have something to teach us about how we provide food and water to those near life’s end.
Journal Club Charles von Gunten moderates a panel discussing the new opioids available. Bottom line … we don’t need new opioids … we need everyone to correctly prescribe and take the ones we have now. (a nice summary and links re REMS is here)
Frank Ostaseski’s Five Precepts of Service lend a strong foundation to the work of accompaniment … The First Precept: Welcome Everything. Push Away Nothing. In welcoming everything, we don’t have to like what’s arising. It’s actually not our job to approve or disapprove. It’s our task to trust, to listen, and to pay careful attention
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“Life is a mystery, and we all acknowledge it, but we don’t really know it. You don’t know the heart, you don’t know the mind, you don’t know the body. You are in front of a mystery, you have to get that straight, and you must be there with awe and trembling because this is
vigil … a sacred word … a sacred time … Read More »
