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Being with Dying

Bedside Vigil 

March 14, 2019

During the final stages of the dying experience I provide non-medical support in coordination with hospice/medical care in your area. I will help you to create a plan and be on-call to guide and support your circle of care. This is a challenging and sacred time. We all deserve the information and support that enables […]

Filed Under: Being with Dying, services,

The Five Invitations – Frank Ostaseski

March 11, 2019

Frank Ostaseski, co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco wrote this beautiful book about death and love. Ostaseski created the Metta Institute where he teaches on spirituality in dying. Five Precepts by Frank Ostaseski Founder, Metta Institute A while back, I developed five precepts as companions on the journey of accompanying the dying. […]

Filed Under: Being with Dying, Tagged with: book, hospice

End Game – Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

March 9, 2019

2018 40 minute documentary film by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman about terminally ill patients in a San Francisco hospital meeting medical practitioners seeking to change the perception around life and death.

Filed Under: Being with Dying, Tagged with: BJ Miller, film, San Francisco, Zen Hospice

Advice for Future Corpses – Sallie Tisdale

March 9, 2019

Filed Under: Being with Dying, Planning Guides, Tagged with: book

Instructions on Parting by Amy Jenkins

March 7, 2019

A beautiful intimate doc film about death within the life cycle of the family. website for the film

Filed Under: Being with Dying, Memorial Arts, Tagged with: film

Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us how to Live by Marie de Hennezel

March 1, 2019

Stories and reflections from the first palliative care ward for people with AIDS in Paris.

Filed Under: Being with Dying, Tagged with: AIDS

Death Ed Series at Greenfield Public Library Spring, 2019

February 19, 2019

The series offers alternatives to fear and avoidance with opportunities to learn, connect with other mortals, and take action for better lives and deaths. Death Leaves Home: navigating the medical landscape Life with Death: ecology and bodies Memorial Arts: saying goodbye and honoring our dead Dying in Community: building capacity and infrastructure for end of […]

Filed Under: Being with Dying, Death Literacy, Workshops and Events, Tagged with: series, workshops

Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death – Joan Halifax

February 7, 2019

Roshi Joan Halifax is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. Being with Dying is also the name of a training program she created for clinicians working with people who are seriously ill and dying.

Filed Under: Being with Dying, Tagged with: book

psychedelics-and-end-of-life-anxiety/

October 15, 2018

Some articles about current research: New YorkerNIHNew York TimesThe Atlantic

Filed Under: Being with Dying, Tagged with: fear of death, human, parenting while dying, psychedelics

Final Gifts – Maggie Callahan & Patricia Kelley

March 7, 2000

Hospice nurses perspectives on end of life care.

Filed Under: Being with Dying, Hospice and Palliative Care, Tagged with: book, hospice

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