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Knitting My Burial Shroud: HBO's How to Die in Oregon
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Knitting My Burial Shroud. My personal and professional journey through life and death. Friday, January 2, 2015. HBO's How to Die in Oregon. I hope you and your family have been well. My family is getting better from being not particularly well. What I really want to write about, though, is a film I saw a couple weeks ago. It was hard to watch. I kind of want to re-watch it, to see if it maintains its power. It was the HBO Documentary, How to Die in Oregon. It's about Oregon's Death With Dignity law.
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Knitting My Burial Shroud: Ask a Mortician
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Knitting My Burial Shroud. My personal and professional journey through life and death. Wednesday, January 14, 2015. Someone taught me about this YouTube channel recently: Ask a Mortician. If you have any interest in what a young, hip, honest mortician knows, WATCH! Caitlin Doughty is smart and well spoken and very entertaining. Here's a recent one I watched. Enjoy exploring her channel! Order of the Good Death. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Knitting My Burial Shroud. Natural Path Sanctuary Visit.
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Knitting My Burial Shroud: Confession
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Knitting My Burial Shroud. My personal and professional journey through life and death. Monday, May 11, 2015. I knew before he did. That doesn't seem fair. But I work in the back room and he's seen in the "front of house.". He was already crabby. That was bound to soon. His wife wasn't with him this time. She was in the hospital, having been taken there by. After seizing up, unable to walk, her back paralyzed, in the grocery store. Six weeks ago, they. All their friends and their home. I mean Doctor.".
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Knitting My Burial Shroud: Knitting My Burial Shroud
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Knitting My Burial Shroud. My personal and professional journey through life and death. Monday, May 5, 2014. Knitting My Burial Shroud. When I was in third, fourth, and fifth grade, I visited nursing homes with my Girl Scout troop. We played cards, sang songs on the order of "You Are My Sunshine" and "Bicycle Built for Two," made crafts and simply listened to our "adopted grandparents" tell us about their lives. These experiences helped shape what has now become my career working as a gerontological, end...
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Knitting My Burial Shroud: Waves
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Knitting My Burial Shroud. My personal and professional journey through life and death. Saturday, October 4, 2014. My goodness, the emotions in life lap like waves on a shore. Cresting and ebbing, crashing and easing off, whether they are joy, happiness, anger, sadness, jealousy, disgust, indignation, love or a combination of some, a few, or all. I had an experience yesterday that left me reeling, emotionally. I felt numb as I left work. First, have I yet introduced you to my Social Work Command Central?
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Knitting My Burial Shroud: October 2014
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Knitting My Burial Shroud. My personal and professional journey through life and death. Friday, October 24, 2014. Thank you, Dr. Gawande, But Did You Know About Us? I had a really incredible opportunity this afternoon. I was excited about it for at least this whole week. I've been aware of this man only perhaps a month or two, but I always love a physician champion willing to speak about end of life care. Dr. Atul Gawande. I am grateful Dr. Gawande professed the greatness of palliative care. Which, by th...
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The climate-conscious corpse (part 2) | Climate Chronicle
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The climate-conscious corpse (part 2). 8220;He spake well that said that graves are the footprints of angels.”. The symbolically elegant but physically messy sky burial, wherein the remains of the departed are carried up to a great height for the vultures and other scavenging animals to break down and recycle — a practice common in Tibet and a few other Asian countries — would probably have to be ruled out for the same reason. There has to be a better way. Even among committed environmentalists. At least...
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Knitting My Burial Shroud: Perspective
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Knitting My Burial Shroud. My personal and professional journey through life and death. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Last week, Monday through Saturday, I was in Seattle, Washington, for a work conference with the Association of Oncology Social Workers. Two perspectives on the same work of art at the Chihuly Garden and Glass. Thus it was that I found myself at the Seattle/Tacoma airport, trying to get to the gate to board a plane back to Madison from Seattle. At Lantern Brewing Company. We ate wood fired pizza...
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Knitting My Burial Shroud: The Hardest Job ...
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Knitting My Burial Shroud. My personal and professional journey through life and death. Monday, June 30, 2014. The Hardest Job . Governor Dodge State Park, Wisconsin. June 24, 2014 - never know what we're headed into in the woods. In early May, my mom was diagnosed with a metastatic brain tumor, as a result of breast cancer. At any rate, I think about your blog often, contemplating what it really means to be "Ok" or "comfortable" with death. Does that mean you accept it? For yourself or your loved one?