Do you know what can go wrong without advance directives and an end-of-life plan? You have NO IDEA.
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People experience death in varied ways. Different colors, different cultures, demand different approaches to the dying process.
Having hope as death nears is not always helpful – not if it’s delusionary and detracts from positive end-of-life attitudes and actions.
A cache of old videos recalls the height of the AIDS crisis and its critical, emotional nexus with the developing right-to-die movement.
When you believe it’s time to go, what options do you really have? There are more than you you think, without having to resort to a violent ending.
“Sleep deprivation amplified every emotion and wore me down quickly,” she said. She was exhausted, angry, and felt guilty. She was “flying blind” to be the surrogate as Betty neared death – and she was a trained, experienced hospice RN. What does that say about your chance of being an effective surrogate?
Children have also experienced the death of close relatives, but it often happens that we try to hide death from children in a misguided attempt to protect them. Far from helpful, this confuses children and prevents them from handling the pain of the loss they have suffered.
Please welcome death and grief educator, author, and public speaker Gail Rubin, aka The Doyenne of Death, as a guest contributor to the blog.
Please join us in welcoming author, podcast host, and end-of-life educator, and atheist chaplain Terri Daniel as a guest contributor to the blog.
More FEN members share why they care about the right to die in general, and why they joined FEN in particular.
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