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“We don’t die alone,” says psychologist James Hillman, “Death is communal, entering the community of the dead, and the dead are already present in the heart.”
I have started a link to get people talking about grief and support the bereaved.
The titleand poem say it all.
Link: http://www.omarkhayyamtheatrecompany.com/
See more and comment...Advance care planning and the urgency of now | Prof Brian Dolan and Corrina Grimes
Posted by Jools Barsky on Feb. 21, 2020, 7:13 a.m.
An opinion piece co-authored with Corrina Grimes, by Professor Brian Dolan, whom I had the pleasure of hearing speak at the Countess of Chester hospital in January 2020.
Prof Brian Dolan and Corrina Grimes outline the case for advance care planning in the context of patient time and their last 1,000 days...
A friend in India sent me this about the Kashi Labh guest house in Varanasi, the place people go to die. I was curious about the journalist so here's the back story too.
Project FUEL was founded in 2009 by Deepak Ramola when he was 17:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBgAihUm_m-D8Y9aVnRhRuw
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwVe7WsZXyU
See more and comment...Guardian Angel was founded after the founder's mother’s fatal accident. Support Hubs are private online groups for bereaved families and friends. You can use them to co-ordinate funeral information, donations, memories and photos. You may wish to start a Support Hub or join an existing one.
Link: https://guardianangel.network/
See more and comment...Was asked to speak on the radio recently about Edmonton Alberta's first green burial cemetery. And of course Death Cafe came up!
Link: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-52-radio-active/clip/15731227-burials-going-green
See more and comment..."Day after day we remember the days that have gone on before, even though there is the interval of sleep. Finally there comes a time when, if we consider what is to our true liking, we will want to forget everything that went before. Then we can have the extraordinary experience of seeing the world once again through the eyes of a baby – whatever kind of baby. Then it will be completely new and we will have all the startling wonder that a child has, all the vividness of perception which we wouldn’t have if we remembered everything forever."
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4rMxg8JOn0
See more and comment...Recent articles on Grief - Week of May 20th 2019
Posted by Jacob Brown - Grief Therapist on May 19, 2019, 3:05 p.m.
For the week of May 20th, 2019, here are some articles on grief that I think are useful and interesting.
I am a psychotherapist in Corte Madera California (outside of San Francisco). I specialize in therapy with seniors, aging, grief and end of life. www.jbamft.com
This is a summary of recent articles on grief. I hope you find them interesting and helpful in exploring your own grief experience.
I'm a psychotherapist in the San Francisco area specializing in aging and grief. You can find more resources on my website www.jbamft.com.
Death cannot be truly understood. Death is better understood within the soul, our essential being, and our heart. In a culture where dying and death is feared, we have no verbal language to express the immensity of dying, death or grief; no aptitude to be a faithful witness or to comprehend how it feels to be dying. What we most profoundly think and trust, what we passionately love, fear, or desire, undeniably escapes sufficient verbalization— as with death.
After my father passed away, 10 weeks after I witnessed the attacks of 9/11 (and unrelated to it), I collected and translated poet Rainer Maria Rilke's letters of condolence. 17 years later I published Rilke's The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief and Transformation. The book helped me get through a very dark period of loss and grief. It might be of help to others.
I am humbled to be the translator of the great poet Rilke, whose words have sustained me for a long time. And I am honored that singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash, a great lover of poetry and Rilke, recorded this book ...
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