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Don’t Wait Until You’re on Your Deathbed: Write a Heart Will Today
Express your love for those you cherish before it’s too late
Join SevenPonds each month as Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPN, offers practical on-hand guidance to demystify the dying process. As an RN since 1976, Tani has been working to empower families and healthcare professionals to have the best end-of-life experience possible both through education and the … Continue reading
Posted in Dying Well
Tagged closure, Communication, Death and Dying, Grief, Grieving, Heart Will, Ira Byock, Letters to Loved One, Loss of a Loved One, love letters
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Easing into the End of Life
Where does the US stand on the subject of death, dying and comprehensive end of life care?
People like to know what’s ahead. Yet, life is unpredictable. Perhaps one of the reasons death, something natural and something we all share, is still tainted with fear. How do you plan and prepare for an experience filled with uncertainty? … Continue reading
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
In writing on her mother's death, French writer Simone de Beauvoir touched on palliative and end-of-life care questions long before her time
The most remarkable thing about Simone de Beauvoir’s A Very Easy Death (1964) is its author’s deft choice to seek the ordinary. Beauvoir’s is not a story we haven’t heard before — mother is diagnosed with cancer; children struggle by … Continue reading
“The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life” by Ira Byock, M.D.
The palliative care physician explains what it means to provide the best care possible as a doctor to the dying.
The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life is author and doctor Ira Byock, M.D.’s latest opus on end-of-life care. The palliative care physician’s reflections on being a “doctor to the dying” are … Continue reading
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Tagged Byock, Caregiving, Dartmouth, Dartmouth Medical Center, Death, Doctor patient relationship, Dying Compassionately, dying father, End-of-life care, Hospice, Ira Byock, Palliative Care, Regrets of the Dying, Surrogate end of life care, The Best Care Possible: A Physicians Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
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