A Home Funeral for a Grandfather
We never left Richard that night. About two in the morning, we bathed and dressed his body. It was a beautiful, beautiful night. There was a chorus of frogs coming through the window, and moonlight.
I Lost my Daughter, then 5 yrs later, I lost my only Grandson and he was my only Grandchild, I’m just curious as to why me. We were 3 Generation s .?
What current research is there to follow that is pointing to consciousness/soul surviving death and there not being just oblivion?
Hi Sarah, My father entered palliative care last week with late stage lung cancer. He has been given 4-12 weeks. Sadly, he is in denial and understandably, extremely angry at life right now. The story of his life is long and complicated but to summarize, he has been an angry, volatile alcoholic for 50+ years…
Both of my elderly parents died alone in cheap nursing homes despite having 7 children, 10 adult grandchildren and a previously loving community. My father died in 2014, my mother last year at age 95 (she unintentionally starved to death due to deep depression brought on by abuse and neglect by my siblings). It was…
Is death “different” in some way when the person commits suicide? My brother took his life 4 years ago this December and I think often if his experience was different.
My father passed this past January, my dear husband died last month and yesterday my mom enrolled in hospice. I am feeling numb and confused because I am not connecting to her fear and almost feel distant as she has said some angry things about my father since he died. When I visited her last…
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When a doctor isn’t giving you a timeline, how can you know what to expect.
This is just so hard. I feel too much. Thanks for hearing me.
Thank you for everything. I honor your existence. I am a death doula and I am working with a woman in palliative care for a final stage cancer. She is taking palliative chemotherapy and is doing better, she has made her care planning and death planning but as day go by she physically she is…
Dear Sarah. Your work touches my heart. My question is about MAID, and more specifically about what happens to consciousness when it is administered. In other deaths I understand that dying is an organic process where the body knows what to do and where conscious slowly leaves the body from the root chakra to the…
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