Archive for the 'Death and Dying' Category
Making a will means different things to different people in different countries. In the UK, there is still a huge rich/poor divide. At the lower end of the income scale people very rarely concern themselves with making a will, although it is important for everyone to consider. Even if you have no worldly goods to [...]
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Funerals are never cheap. A really basic affair will start at 500 pounds but the average funeral will cost 2,000 pounds upwards. This is not something many of us want to consider but if we don’t, then who will? The burden of funeral arrangements and costs will fall on the next of kin if we [...]
Tags : will, wills,
For the rich and famous who can be a little indecisive when will writing, some of the richer celebrities may be making headway in what to do with their millions when they die.
One New York billionaires who once said ‘only the little people pay taxes’ has taken charge of what happens to her dollars when [...]
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“We will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die”. –Dame Cicely Saunders
In 1967 Dame Cicely Saunders at St. Christopher’s Hospice in London first applied the term “hospice” to specialized care for terminally ill and dying patients. Today, hospice care provides humane and compassionate care [...]
Tags : Utah hospice care
After over 13 years working a nurse I had witnessed some weird and wonderful things. Occasionally, one of them stands out as significant. Back in ‘97-’98 I went to Australia with a one year working visa. During this time I worked for nurse agencies in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The experience was a good one [...]
Tags : Death, Dying, Life after death, belief, hope
The caramel-colored corgi spotted me walking toward the city-run recreation center. Out for a walk with his person, the little dog stopped in his tracks and fixed me in his gaze. The woman on the end of his leash tried to move him along, but he wouldn’t budge.
He stood his ground, waiting for me to [...]
Tags : animals, cats, compassion, death, dogs, healing, instinct, intuition, love, spirituality
“Donna” was trapped in an agony of indecision.
Her eight-year marriage to a man older than she, of another ationality, culture, and religion, had never been easy. Now it was threatening to founder on the rocky shoals of severe financial strain and quarrels over in-laws. At age 29, she already had one child, a daughter [...]
Tags : death, energy healing, grief, life after death, recovery, spirituality
Funerals are ceremony or procession commonly held for deceased persons. The ceremony may be in the forms of a simple memorial service attended by family and friends while it can also be grand State burial usually for soldiers who died in the battlefield. A funeral consists of an assortment of customs which might be different [...]
Tags : funeral, death, dying, life, religion, rituals
If home is where the heart is, so also dwells there a place for healing the grief and anguish of losing a child or any loved one.
All we need do is step inside our heart by means of a heart-centered meditation.
The heart isn’t only a physical organ or merely an intellectual concept. The heart is [...]
Tags : death, grief, meditation, parenting, SIDS, recovery,
This was not a typical get-back-in-touch letter from a business associate who moved out of town some years ago. Instead, a mother wrote about the quiet death of her five-week-old daughter in the child’s car seat. It happened on the way to the home of baby’s grandparents, where the extended family was anticipating the arrival. [...]
Tags : death, grief, parenting, SIDS, recovery, spirituality
