Animals and Dying, Death and Grief
Question: My beloved cat is dying. My heart is broken. What do you think happens when animals die? Talk about dealing with grief from the loss of a pet. (The...
Something to Think About: a blog on end of life
Dynamics of Dying
Dying From Alzheimer's or Dementia
QUESTION: Would you write about dying from Alzheimer's? There is a reason Alzheimer's is referred to as “the long goodbye.” From diagnosis until death it is generally a very long...
Sleep and the Dying Process
Another part of the natural dying process is a person begins sleeping more. Starting 2 to 4 months before death occurs from disease a person begins taking an afternoon nap...
It Is Okay Not To Eat - Part II
There will come a time when a person just can’t and won’t eat but in the months before death a bit of time and energy can sometimes be bought by...
Life Sustaining vs. Comfort Care
QUESTION: “Life sustaining vs. comfort care, where do you draw the line?” This is a question everyone faced with a life threatening illness and their significant others asks themselves. We...
Question: Is the process of dying different in the elderly?
Write something to the living who are young and dying. Signs of what are to come ect... I put these two questions together even though they came from different sources...
A Question About Denial
Question: Is there anything a person can do to help family members break through denial? Boy, is it unpleasant to be the truth-teller to a person who isn’t ready to...
I Have Been Diagnosed Terminally Ill
Question: I have been diagnosed terminally ill with lung cancer and liver cancer. I am not at this moment yet, but wonder, how long? No one can be specific as...
We Know When We Are Dying
While individual differences may be seen in the time of days to weeks before death, everyone who is dying will have the signs of approaching death that occur hours to...
QUESTION: Talk about dis-ease
QUESTION: Can you talk about dis-ease and how we bring this upon ourselves? Another great controversial question. Although there is more and more research which points to stress being related...
A Window of Control Over The Time That We Died (Even With Dementia)
We die a gradual death according to our personality and if that personality is protective then we may protect a person we care about by dying when they are not...
Patterns of Living and Dying
We will meet the challenge of a gradual death in the same manner we have met other challenges in our life. Dying a gradual death is just one more challenge...