dying Archive
Death ends a life, not a relationship. ~~ Morrie Schwartz Anticipatory grief is exactly what it says: the feeling of anxiety and sadness at loss, begun before the loss occurs. When loss means death, the term applies to both the …
Death Midwifery and Home Funerals By Cassandra Yonder This piece is an excerpt from the upcoming book: Journey’s End: Death, Dying, and the End of Life, written, compiled, and edited by Victoria Brewster, MSW and Julie Saeger Nierenberg, MA Ed …
I always marvel at the connections one can make thru social media. I have had the benefit of making many positive connections on LinkedIn and because of my involvement there, connected with Julie Nierenberg. We both have similar interests re: …
This is an article worth reading in The ‘Windsor Star’ on End-of-Life Care. This area is only going to continue to grow as more and more enter the 65+demographic. What is holding health professionals and helping professionals back from bringing …
If the Canadian federal government is leaving medical care and health care to the provinces, making transfer payments only and allowing each province to implement its own services, than why are they not doing the same with assisted suicide? How …
By: Courtney Kidd, LMSW SJS Staff Writer Ah the 2012 holiday season. A time to laugh, remember our loved ones, exchange some gifts. Oh, and let’s not forget the upcoming apocalypse. The Mayan calendar rumor has been circling around for …
by Vikki Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer I am currently reading a book titled, “Comfort’ by Ann Hood. Yes, I read a lot and as this is an area of interest for me….. this book is about a mother who loses …
by Victoria Brewster, MSW – SJS Staff Writer I am reading yet another wonderful book. Morrie Schwartz sheds some wisdom on what it is like to be diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease, (ALS) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s …
Long after we lose count of our good deeds, what remains with us is often a list of those we couldn’t save. Our “failings” can haunt us, a reminder of our fallible nature. We don’t give ourselves the benefit of …
Seniors, older adults, the elderly, although personally I am not enamored with that term. They are our elders, our parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents. I have had the pleasure, the gift, or the honor, of working with seniors for 12 1/2 years; 6 months …
