Sublime

He resolved to unwind his relationships—to “beautifully resolve” them—and to work systematically from the outer circle toward the middle. He reasoned that as his disease progressed, he’d want more uninterrupted time with the people who were closest, especially his family.

Durant ces mois, j’ai souvent réfléchi à ce que j’essayais de faire, à la difficulté de maintenir en vie une personne qui désire mourir. Dans un premier temps, on a recours à la logique (Tu as tant de raisons de continuer à vivre), puis on tente la culpabilité (Tu m’es redevable), et puis la colère, les menaces, et la supplication (Je suis vieux ;

While most Americans do not want to die in a hospital, the reality is, most will. What can be done in a hospital to bring intentionality and compassion to that experience? What can be done to ensure that our medical system, full of life-saving machinery and drugs, does not eclipse the power of the heart, companioning models of working with grief, o

Au cours de mes nombreuses années de thérapie individuelle ou collective avec des personnes en deuil, j’ai appris qu’il est nécessaire que le patient vive une première fois sans son conjoint toutes les dates importantes de l’année – anniversaires, Noël, Pâques, le Nouvel An, la première invitation en tant que célibataire – avant qu’une amélioration

On those quiescent days, she was her normal self, the self she understood and had confidence in. On those days, she could almost convince herself that Dr. Davis and the genetic counselor had been wrong, or that the last six months had been a horrible dream, only a nightmare, the monster under her bed and clawing at her covers not real.

He had never told anyone about his sister, and something blossomed out of the confession. When William closed his eyes, the little girl sat beside him. He had given her substance by telling her story. He was confident that his parents never mentioned her because they couldn’t bear to. If only three people remembered her short story and never spoke

One would expect the last year of life to be the most expensive as people suffer with more severe, complex, and prolonged illness. But it does not have to be as expensive as it is in the United States. Hospice, which takes a holistic view of health, seeks to address medical and nonmedical symptoms for people whose life expectancy is deemed to be le