All Death Matters
by Felix Cheong You can dodge taxes (as many successful people have done). But the one fact you can’t avoid is death. Yet among Asians, we often wave away the word as if saying it...
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by Felix Cheong You can dodge taxes (as many successful people have done). But the one fact you can’t avoid is death. Yet among Asians, we often wave away the word as if saying it...
Personal Perspective: Death is decidedly weird. One minute you’re up and living, and the next minute you’re gone. Death is a stark reminder to deliberately embrace life.
If we spare youth the universal reality of death, we postpone to middle age the struggle to reconcile with itI am not especially superstitious but it tends to be a Friday afternoon...
The best doctors understand something that is easy to lose in the machinery of a hospital: death does not turn a person into an administrative task“If you don’t mind, can we start...
Dying is difficult, a nurse told me. It might have been even more appalling had Dad not been clear about his wishes. Yet most of us remain deeply reluctant to outline how we want t...
How Buddhist traditions contemplate mortality, confront impermanence, and ritualize the final moment. The post From the Academy: Death appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Revi...
In the final instalment of a five-part Health Matters wellness series on ageing in Hong Kong, Emily Hung looks at how living funerals, advance directives and family mediation are h...
How can our understanding of mortality shape the way we live? Palliative care doctors and death doulas share the lessons they have learnedWe will all face death one day, but our at...
Learn the 7 clinical signs of imminent death — from terminal lucidity to mottled skin — that appear in the final 24 to 72 hours of life. The post 7 Signs of Imminent Death That App...
In an aging America, thousands of people have adopted a new vocation: supporting others as they confront the end of life.
Medical aid in dying is now legal in New York. A team of clinical professionals decided to create a practice to help their clients die on their own terms.
marko: I would like to be able to attend my own wake. We lost my step brother to cancer last summer. The weekend before he died he had a living wake and all his friends and fami...
When my father was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, I made him a promise. I told him I would not let him die in a hospital. I had been an ICU nurse for years by then. I knew w...
marko: would like to be able to attend my own wake. My sisters and I were very struck by that at my mum’s tea party (aka wake). What we hadn’t realised in advance is that it wo...
How can my patient be dead when her heart is still beating steadily and her limbs are warm? The longest ten minutes of my life are those spent in the brain death examination.
In another post, I’ve shared the story of Mrs. F, a very ill older woman with cancer who said she didn’t want to go to the hospital, even though she wasn’t on hospice. Now, I want...
One of my uncles died at the beginning of February and wrote his last newspaper column about a fortnight before, which led to a big interview which in its turn set off a fantastic...
Death salons are spaces that allow free-flowing conversations about mortality and are becoming more popular around the countryIn a small cream-colored room at a cemetery in Philade...
Once, I spent a year walking Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery daily, winding between the marble tombs engulfed by tree-roots and emblazoned with the surnames of the dead, ea...
Every day in family meetings across the United States, we clinicians are delivering difficult truth to a family: Their loved one is nearing the end of life, and comfort-focused car...
By Matt McCullough, TGC. Most of us deal with death by choosing to ignore it. “Being unable to cure death,” Blaise Pascal once wrote, “we’ve decided, in order to be happy, not to t...
Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind. — Atul GawandeIn his article, Demystifying Hospice Care, medical news and information rep...
Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who fears discussing end-of-life affairs will make her husband think she wants him gone.
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