There is life before death… but for some people it is full of pain…
I am amazed at the job done by Mike Hill in writing, directing and producing an amazing series of Short Films about the crisis in untreated pain and the transformative effects that pain management and palliative care services can bring to patients and families. The collection of 50 short films have received over 122,000 views […]
Why should it be less about ‘me’ and more about ‘you’?
In the online course, “Compassionate Communication” Elizabeth Causton suggests that “The essence of compassionate communication is to be able to step away from our own beliefs, biases, personal experiences, needs, and expectations and to move forward to fully understand the experiences of another person. This does not mean that we deny our own story, but […]
You are dead, but you keep popping up!
Have you had a friend die, only to have them “pop up” on your Facebook page? This is only one of the challenges of death and Social Media. Franca Posner is a counselor in private practice. Currently she has no website, and is not a social media buff, but she has become an expert on […]
Caring for the dying is the easy part….
Time and again I have heard people say, “Caring for the dying is the easy part… It is caring for the family that is difficult”. I quote this, not to diminish the importance or the complexity in caring for the dying, or to criticize family and loved ones, but to identify how difficult the experience […]
