Something to Think About: a blog on end of life

Suicide
The Nursing Home Blues by Barbara Karnes, RN www.bkbooks.com

The Nursing Home Blues

As we get older, life presents us with different challenges. We adapt to them in the same way we have lived our life and dealt with all the challenges in...

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Unexpected Death of a Child

Unexpected Death of a Child

Dear Barbara, Please talk about unexpected youth death. In our minds we understand, that as sad as it is when an older adult dies,they have lived their life and death...

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The

The "Do Over"

Then one day I got a phone call saying the baby was found dead in its crib---SIDS Only we didn’t call it Sudden Infant Death Syndrome then. It was just...

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Thoughts of Suicide

Most people diagnosed with a life threatening illness think about suicide. Suicidal thoughts are normal thoughts in someone who has been told they can’t be fixed. We think about it...

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I Just Want to Die

Frequently I will hear a person say “I am ready to die,” “I just want to die,” “Why am I not dead yet?” or “Why is this taking so long?”...

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