Something to Think About

a blog on end of life

Barbara Karnes Books team members Julia, Danny, Barbara Karnes, Cher, and Jacquelyn providing trusted end-of-life education, hospice resources, and caregiver support.

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When Treatment Stops Working: What Hospice Really Offers

When Treatment Stops Working: What Hospice Really Offers

Movies Make Dying Look Comfortable. What Do You Do When It's Not?

Movies make dying look comfortable. What do you do when it’s not?

Medical Interventions on a Body That Can’t Be Fixed

Medical Interventions on a Body That Can’t Be Fixed

When Treatment Stops Working: What Hospice Really Offers

When Treatment Stops Working: What Hospice Really Offers

What do you say to someone to get them to accept hospice? Well, one thing to say after explaining the services hospice offers is to ask what they think will...

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Movies Make Dying Look Comfortable. What Do You Do When It's Not?

Movies make dying look comfortable. What do you do when it’s not?

Our role models from movies and TV show us that dying is gentle, often poetic, certainly not scary or messy. Movies make dying look comfortable.

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Medical Interventions on a Body That Can’t Be Fixed

Medical Interventions on a Body That Can’t Be Fixed

How tragic that none can come forward and say, "Your father is dying. Let's stop all these extras and keep him comfortable”. Family as well as many individual physicians do...

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