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10 Facts About Hospice Care You May Not Know" />
10 Facts About Hospice Care You May Not Know: NHPCO stresses that hospice is about living fully, not preparing for death. -
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Man of Many Faces: A niece says goodbye to her favorite gay uncle, in whom she confided about her own sexuality -
Last Rites: A Catholic Send-Off" />
Last Rites: A Catholic Send-Off: A look at the religion's final prayer procession for the dying
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Tag Archives: Dying at Home
Healing Through Grief
How going home to die saved my life.
This story was contributed by Michelle Wallace. When I was twenty-five, I moved home to die. At the time, I didn’t say it like that to myself, that I was moving home to die. I wouldn’t allow myself to recognize … Continue reading
An Interview with Kate Munger
We discuss the Threshold Choir's mission to provide lovely, comforting songs to the ill and dying
Kate Munger founded the Threshold Choir in 2000 with the idea of creating a chorus of women’s voices that could provide soothing song at people’s bedsides. Today, she administers a large network of of choirs nationwide, from the Northeast to … Continue reading
Remembering My Father
Coming to terms with my father's end-of-life experience
This is Hugh’s story as told by Katie Ryan… My father lived with Parkinson’s disease for twenty years before he died and it progressed very slowly. He was diagnosed at the age I am now and died at seventy-two on … Continue reading
Posted in Opening our Hearts
Tagged Ad hominem, Caregiving, Conditions and Diseases, Cremation, Death, Dying at Home, Health, Hospice, Parkinson's disease, Support group
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An Interview with Jerrigrace Lyons: Part Two
One of the first home funeral consultants shares her wisdom
Jerrigrace Lyons is a family funeral guide and educator—one of the original pioneers of the home funeral movement. She is a founding member of the Home Funeral Alliance, and the founder and director of Final Passages, through which she both guides families … Continue reading
An Interview with Jerrigrace Lyons: Part One
One of the first home funeral consultants shares her wisdom
Jerrigrace Lyons is a family funeral guide and educator—one of the original pioneers of the home funeral movement. She is a founding member of the Home Funeral Alliance, and the founder and director of Final Passages, through which she both guides families … Continue reading
What are Home Funerals? An Interview with Ann-Ellice Parker
The inspiring woman behind "Seasons of Change" home funeral services
Ann-Ellice Parker is the wonderfully insightful “death midwife” who runs Seasons of Change home funeral and end-of-life practice in Berkeley, CA. Join SevenPonds for an extra in-depth interview about death and dying, home funerals, aid in dying, and more… Aurora: … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Aid in Dying, Dying at Home, Dying Compassionately, Home Funeral, Hospice, Organ Donation, Palliative Care, Suicide
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A Doctor of the Dying Struggles with a Personal Loss
Working in nursing homes taught me about old age — but I was unprepared for my grandfather's last days
From the book How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old by Marc E. Agronin, MD. Excerpted by arrangement with Da Capo Lifelong, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright (c) 2011. Until the year … Continue reading
Six Ways to Give Your Loved One the Best Death Possible
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature, is a paradise to what we fear of death.” — Claudio in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure Years ago, when my mother cared for … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Aid in Dying, Caregiving, Dying at Home, Dying Compassionately, Easing Pain, Palliative Care
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