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Grief and the Disappearing Self: An Additional Note on Loss in Children, by...
Becoming what might have been Bewildered Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. ~~ Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Dissertations (1665) An ancestral insight: We Need Others...
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FEAR AND THE BEREAVED CAREGIVER by Rea L. Ginsberg, LCSW-C, ACSW, BCD
To ask is to believe that somewhere there is an answer. ~~ Jonathan H. Sacks, PhD Fear of dying is an existential experience for everyone. It is a common denominator in the human condition. All of us...
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The ? of “Suffering” by Monica Williams-Murphy, MD
“Oh God!” she groaned, looking upward with tears flooding her cheeks, which were stretched into the shape of agony. Her chest heaved uncontrollably with grief. “I am so very sorry,” I whispered again...
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Not excited about advance care planning? Here are 8 unorthodox reasons you...
By now you’ve surely heard that Medicare is going to pay doctors and other qualified healthcare providers for advance care planning with patients in 2016. Aren’t you excited?!? Ok, so if you are not...
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Love and Anger in Healthcare at the End of Life by Monica Williams-Murphy, MD
Medical school and medical training attempt to teach subjective humans how to think and practice medicine objectively. This may be one of the unique fallacies of modern medicine but that’s a subject...
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Grief: Loose Ends by Rea L. Ginsberg, LCSW-C, ACSW, BCD
Change is part of the texture of life itself, But it is often hard to bear — Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Everyone grieves in a different way. No way is the right way. No way is the wrong way. No one...
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One Washcloth: a Tool for Change
Over the past century our society has become distant from both death and the tending to our dead. According to Gary Laderman’s book Rest in Peace: a Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Industry...
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Seeing Death in Nature: Preparing Children for Loss, by Monica...
“The most significant variable of a relatively uncomplicated bereavement period or a prolonged and tragic mourning depends to a great deal on the relationship the child and the parent had, on the old...
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Standing Not Alone: Notes on Grief by Rea L. Ginsberg, LCSW-C, ACSW, BCD
“The Bereavement,” marble, 2010 Grief is a synonym for intense psychic pain. It is seldom invited and never welcomed. Death is not a gentle teacher. Everyone loses someone they love, and everyone dies...
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The Role of Executor: Opportunity or Poison Chalice? by Angela Harvey, Estate...
Angela Harvey is an Estate Planning Attorney with Swaab Attorneys in Sydney, Australia. Angela’s experience includes asset protection, trusts, succession planning, analyzing established structures,...
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“Teach us to number our days” that we may discover what matters most, by...
Advance planning is ultimately a spiritual practice. It requires that we face ourselves. It requires that we “number” our days. It is precisely when we number our days, that we may suddenly discover...
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“Signs” of Respect, by Dr. Monica Williams-Murphy
A “Sign” is defined as an object, quality or event whose presence indicates the probable presence of something else. One day after having read, “Attending the Dying” by my friend Megory Anderson, I...
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“I only want to die once” and Other Patient Lessons by Monica...
I was at the end of a long shift. I had already seen too many patients to have any common sense left and it felt as though there were no remaining neurons firing in any agreeable pattern in my brain....
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Healing Race Relations with Hospice Care by Monica Williams-Murphy, MD
I grew up in just-post-segregation Alabama. In 1976, I was a kindergartener and my best friend was a little black boy named Kendall. We had a lot in common. I would chase him around on the playground...
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On the Importance of the Past by Rea L. Ginsberg, LCSW-C, ACSW, BCD
Antique Oriental rug Study the past if you would define the future. (Confucius) This could not have been a better time to demonstrate the significance of the past and its presence in our lives....
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The Story of Your Life Carries Great Power, by Monica Williams-Murphy, MD
“No man is an island”, John Donne, meditation XVII, English clergyman and poet (1572-1631) Ultimately, the story of your life is not your own but affects all whom you have ever known. The story of...
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One Hospitalist’s Surprising Advance Directive by Monica Williams-Murphy, MD
I love hospitalists, they are some of my favorite people. Like me, they come into the hospital and work their butts off for 10-12 hours with very little food or water. We are essentially kinfolk, and...
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Hospice Myth-Busting: AKA, How not to rob yourself of peace at life’s end, by...
As I travel around speaking about preparing for peace at the end of life, I have found that there are three pervasive myths about hospice which might cause you to inadvertently rob yourself or your...
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What Indian doctors can teach American doctors about the end-of-life by...
Early on in my career I called an Indian internist in the middle of the night to admit a patient to him. The patient was an 88-year-old female with advanced dementia, a terminal brain disease. She had...
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Death Casts a Wide Net: Theme and Variations by Rea L. Ginsberg, LCSW-C,...
Japanese Crane – Symbol of peace, hope, and the enduring horrors of war “The bottom line is that it is OK to die. It has to be, because we all will die someday….It is a part of life.” Monica...
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