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Communicating End-of-Life Care Wishes With Clinicians and Family

May 29, 2020May 13, 2020 by admin

Nursing@Georgetown created a new guide to help individuals with terminal conditions navigate and effectively communicate difficult end-of-life decisions to their family and clinicians. This comprehensive resource includes a list of questions patients can ask physicians about end-of-life decisions and a PDF worksheet on values history. You can access “Communicating End-of-Life Care Wishes With Clinicians and … Read more

How to Write an Obituary

May 29, 2020May 13, 2020 by admin

Whether you are writing your own obituary to leave behind, or one of someone you love, how do you condense an entire life into a small space of words? Modern Loss has tips to help you map that timeline and reflect the person that was. Click here to read the full article >> Tags after … Read more

How to Tell People You Are Dying

May 29, 2020May 13, 2020 by admin

For those with a life-ending diagnosis, there is so much to process. But one of the hardest things may be telling those you love. Click here to read the full article >> Tags Death Conversations, preparing for death, talking about death, terminal illness

Talking to Dying Children

March 23, 2022May 13, 2020 by admin

By their very nature, children are curious and questioning. But how much should they be told if they have received a terminal diagnosis? Barbara Karnes, an RN who has worked with dying children, provides resources to help in those hard and heartbreaking situations we don’t want to even think about, let alone face. Click here … Read more

Sympathy Words For Loss Of Pet

October 12, 2020May 13, 2020 by admin

From Amy Davis’ article on UltimatePetHub.com Finding the right Loss Of A Pet Message is hard. You just want to get it right and showing your support when someone losing a pet can be difficult. It’s the same feelings and grief that anyone would experience if they lost a member of their family. Sometimes your … Read more

Parents Rethink End-of-Life Decisions Because of COVID-19

October 12, 2020May 13, 2020 by admin

Holly MacDonald recently turned 40 and is on maternity leave during the COVID-19 pandemic. The global crisis made Holly and her partner seriously consider their end-of-life decisions. If they were to die from COVID-19, who would take care of their girls? “I would think that our generation is going to wake up and everyone’s going … Read more

Movie Therapy

April 3, 2020 by admin

Five classic movies for coping with fear and anxiety brought on by the coronavirus. Go ahead and cry, laugh, release. Read the full article here>> Tags grief, Grief Culture, Therapy, Virtual Grief

In the Realm of Death & Dreaming

September 18, 2020April 3, 2020 by admin

An Update on the WYD Documentary Project

Who are we? Does consciousness continue after death? The more I looked into dying, the more intriguing it became, and I realized we are just not talking about these things.
— Johanna J. Lunn

The When You Die Documentary

April 3, 2020 by admin

Johanna Lunn is the creator of WhenYouDie.org and the producer/director of the upcoming documentary feature film In the Realm of Death and Dreaming. I sat down with her at the Illuminate Film Festival in Sedona.

Fear of Dying Alone

March 23, 2022April 3, 2020 by admin

In facing a world pandemic we face our greatest fears: dying alone. Psychologists say that there are two separate concerns. First there is the fear that people we love will have to die alone. But we are also scared about facing our own death by ourselves. Daniel Burke from CNN looks at that fear. Read … Read more

Raising awareness about death

Communicating End-of-Life Care Wishes With Clinicians and Family

How to Write an Obituary

How to Tell People You Are Dying

Talking to Dying Children

Sympathy Words For Loss Of Pet

Parents Rethink End-of-Life Decisions Because of COVID-19

Movie Therapy

In the Realm of Death & Dreaming

The When You Die Documentary

Fear of Dying Alone

The When You Die Project is created in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. May it be helpful to the world.

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