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Death Doulas Are Gaining in Popularity: These death “midwives” ease clients through the process of dying and grieving -
KAAN Architecten’s New Visitor Center at the Netherlands American Cemetery: A new edifice adds to the cemetery site while enhancing its original purpose: Honoring America's wartime dead -
“Prayer” by Lizzie West: Singer-songwriter reminds us that our loved ones live on in the sun and rain
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Category Archives: Sharing Suzette
A Man Suffering Dementia Is Humiliated To Tears
A private community run by men humiliates a member - at what point does chauvinism cross the line?
We all love touching holiday stories, so this is an Easter story. My middle brother called family members for the Easter holiday and told the same story to each of us. He was quite upset. It all begins on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer Disease, Dementia, Easter, Stroke, Swiss, Switzerland
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Clinkle’s Lucas Duplan Personifies the Pinnacle of Startup Greed
I pause to consider, what is the true meaning of life?
I will segue from my usual Sharing Suzette topics to say a few words on business, which begs the question—just what is the meaning of life? I bring this up because of a recent national news story. It goes like … Continue reading
We Euthanize Dying Animals, Don’t We?
My grandmother starved to death as the aid-in-dying (formerly assisted suicide) debate continues
Today I write about a subject that is difficult to tackle. When we end the suffering of an animal we call it euthanasia, but for people, the new term is “aid-in-dying” or what we formerly called “assisted suicide”. This is not … Continue reading
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Tagged Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Kitty Dies, Stomach Cancer, Suffering
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Reflecting On The Year Past
Here comes the tsunami to kick open the conversation on death
As 2013 wraps up, I reflect on the changes that took place this past year to alter our national perspective on death. Since death is still a taboo topic, the truth is that we are only at the beginning of … Continue reading
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What’s All the Hoo-ha Over Funeral Homes?
The largest publicly held death care corporation, Service Corporation International, is buying the second largest: Stewart Enterprises -- but will it impact you?
There’s a big hoo-ha taking place over an acquisition in the death care industry. Service Corporation International (SCI), the largest publicly held death care company, is about to acquire Stewart Enterprises (the second largest). Being that I’m on a number of … Continue reading
What’s Halloween without a Ghost Story?
My true story of a cocktail party in an 1866 haunted house in New York state!
It’s Halloween this month and in honor of one of my favorite holidays, I will repost one of my favorite Sharing Suzette’s from the past. On Halloween, we start to think things like, are ghosts real? Let me start by … Continue reading
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Tagged Cocktail party, Death and Dying, Ghost Story, Ghosts, Halloween, Halloween Story, Haunted, Haunted House, Holidays, New York, Old House, West Point Foundry
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