Something to Think About
a blog on end of life
People with unpleasant personalities while living will still have unpleasant personalities while dying. It is just that the closer to death they get, the less energy they will have to...
What does a dying person look like in the hours to minutes before death? Generally they are non responsive, their eyes are partially open, the skin color is palish often...
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...
Most religions of the world teach us that when we are dead we are in a better place. I add to that that being dead is easy while being alive...
Question: “I would like to share my Hospice frustration with you and my culture. I am a Jew. I am an 11th Hour volunteer and a bereavement counselor in a...
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...
There are very few dying 101 classes to tell people what it is like to die. In fact, few people are comfortable enough to talk about death even when they...
The death rattle is not always present. Those people that have more fluid or are more hydrated as they approach death, are the ones most likely to experience this natural...
It will be our time to die. When the doctors have said, “I can’t fix you” it is time to reconsider what medicine can do for us. Medicine can prolong...
Question: "I am ready to die, why haven't I?" Answer: There is a process to dying from disease and old age--withdrawal, increased sleep and decreased food and fluid intake. Part...
In the months before a gradual death we really don’t believe death will happen to us or to those we love. In the days to weeks before gradual death occurs...
QUESTION: “What about the lack of desire to do anything but sleep?” When a person has entered the dying process three things begin to happen: their eating decreases, sleep increases...
I recently received a question from “What would you like me to write about?”. The question was: For 20 years I have been asking for a slightly more technical explanation...
