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The Good Death
http://www.thegooddeath.blogspot.com
A discussion of the ways we communicate about death, trying to open the topic into a comfortable conversation so that we can handle the subject better. Everything from pop-culture references to death to serious discussions of how death with dignity is handled within the public sphere.
- Added on: Jun 16th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jessica Knapp
- Listed in: Death & Dying Living Well
- Tags: politics family health aging pop-culture medical ethics
Recent Posts
Five Wishes brought to Life
Gail Rae from the mom and me journals dot net has applied the Five Wishes to her mother's recent passing, wondering how each question relates to the discussions she had with her mother before her death. It's a beautiful post and a great embodiment of...
Palliative Care Grand Rounds
If you've been wonder what palliative-care-minded bloggers are writing about, here's your chance to find out ...I'm a little behind on posting this, but this month's Palliative Care Grand Rounds is up at Pallimed Arts & Humanities. If you're not...
Dying to Live out on DVD
Ben Mittleman's exploration of facing his own mortality: Dying to Live, is now available on DVD. I highly recommend checking it out, if for no other reason than we can all occasionally use a reminder that we are all capable of so much more than we th...
Filling out my Living Will
Which lines would you initial?"If in the judgement of my physician, I am suffering with a terminal condition from which I am expected to die within six months, even with available life-sustaining treatment provided in accordance with prevailing stand...
Another Harvest Moon
I was alerted to this film in the comments section of a recent post. And I just have to say, it's about freakin' time someone made a movie about life in a retirement home/assisted-living facility. Also, it looks like the movie deals with quality-of...
Five Wishes
Just found out about this website, Aging with Dignity. They offer a living will written in everyday language, and they call it Five Wishes—because it helps you lay out your five wishes about end-of-life care.*Who you want to make healthcare decisi...
