While grieving a loss, you learn a lot about what helps or hampers healing.
Death and Dying
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Sometimes dying is full of confusion, fear, regret, denial, secrets, and chaos. Grief and conflict swirl through the person dying as well as through their family and friends. Decades of …
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Food can nourish and nurture, even at the end of life.
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Music is an inextricable part of the human experience. We hear it in the womb, we play it as we say goodbye at funerals… and increasingly, music is used in hospice to …
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Dogs can provide comfort to hospice patients and their families, or even to people who are grieving at funerals.
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Not every boss will encourage you to take a day off and go to the beach – or get a massage, or eat a pint of ice cream in front …
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Earlier this month, The Washington Post published an article titled, “Disdain for Trump and Clinton is so strong, even the dead are campaigning.” The article opened with the story of Mary Anne …
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Being with people at the end of life as a volunteer caregiver with Zen Hospice Project for the past 15 months has felt like finding home.
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This Is Terminal is a series dedicated to opening conversations around death and dying. In this interview, we learn from the unique perspective of Nikki Hernandez, a certified clinical aromatherapist who works with …
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We are all humans together somewhere on the continuum of living and dying.