Caitlin Doughty is undoubtedly great. To have achieved what Caitlin has around death and dying in the context of our extremely death-phobic world is incredible. Who knows what Caitlin will go on to do. It will be a treat to find out.
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With considerable angst, I cared for an elderly gentleman who had Multiple Myeloma, recurrent pneumonia and was not responding to treatment. He was also receiving dialysis and experiencing insufferable bone pain. He arrived by EMS gasping for breath and his blood pressure was low. It was clear he was not ...
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At the start of 2015 we had a poll about whether to try to set up a 'real' Death Cafe in London. This would be a coffee and events venue established specifically to facilitate engagement with death. In the end 126 people (91%) voted 'Yes we should try ...
I'm attending the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) conference in San Antonio, TX. Coincidentally, the ICCFA conference is also here. ICCFA graciously allowed ADEC members to attend their exhibit hall. It was my first time at a funeral conference exhibit hall and so I walked up and ...
No one told me about the physical pain I would feel from losing my mother. The umbilical cord that connected me to my mother, and to the world, has been brutally severed and the world as I knew it is no more. It has become a veritable jungle that I ...
In November we were honoured to have a film team join us in a Death Cafe evening to film the discussions. The programme "Second Regard" is well known and admired for producing excellent reports and they certainly lived up to their reputation.
The film is in French but I think ...
‘Food for thought’, ‘Enlightening’, ‘Great to be part of the discussion’ were just some of the comments from over 50 people who attended a recent Death Café at St Joseph’s Hospice, on Thursday 5th February 2015.
Nurses, artists, writers, psychotherapists and funeral directors as well as hospice patients and ...
Out in nature, there exist numerous opportunities for gaining wisdom. One particularly memorable experience occurred a month after my mother died. Strolling alongside a stream, I invited her to please continue sending me signs. A few steps later, looking across the forest, I focused on the most distant point and ...
I'd like to know if a blood thinner kills pain when one experiences pain related to death.
A person was said to be going to die in a heatattack because of colestrol, and he was on blood thinner.
My mother has been on blood thinner because she had a ...
Have you ever gone to the cemetary to talk to those loved ones that are there. Telling them about all the goings on with the rest of th family and your friends , talking about all the events that have occured . Maybe just maybe " shared " a lunch with them. My parents ...
There are some that view the death of a beloved pet as notas impotant as the death of another person , How wrong they are. As a pet parent I have lost many a family member they were my buds With your premission , I would like to name a few . Winston ...
Walter John Juszczak Was born 23 Aug 1921 .He married Elizabeth Joy Cosgrove on 15 Dec 1953 . On Jan 25 at 6:00 am he went to work , he never came back . The wound on his forehead is just as clear today as it was when I first viewed it ...
This came to me after someone I know lost her mother.
It was a day of reckoning,
When silence carries words,
Beneath the trees I came,
To this place of rest the same,
Beside the sleeping blood,
To convey all I had heard.
Beside this resting heart,
I watched a ...
Yesterday in class, during a discussion about full code/no code in the ICU, I found myself saying that Death Cafe can’t change the world. Then everyone added, “Alone.” Death Cafe alone can’t change the world. It provides a forum for people outside of the hospital, outside of ...
With my uncle on life support and in our prayers
I find my self sitting at a car wash, finding
something to read, and coming across Death Cafe.
I have been walking the line between life and death
writing for and reaching out to many who have
lost loved ones ...