Something to Think About
a blog on end of life
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- "the little hospice blue book"
- addiction
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- alzheimers
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- Approaching Death
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- beyond burnout
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- BY YOUR SIDE A Guide for Caring for the Dying at Home
- cancer
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- caregiving at end of life
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- caring for someone at end of life
- cashier
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- christian
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- cognitive impairment
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- corona virus
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- death and dying
- death cafe
- death call
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- death of a pet
- death ritual
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- dementia
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- Director of Education
- disease
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- dying how to's
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- dying process
- Dynamics of Dying
- Eating
- Eating or not eating
- education
- elder
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- end of life
- end of life care for pets
- end of life doula
- end of life education
- End of Life Guideline Series
- endoflife
- eol doula
- essential workers
- euthanasia
- Faith
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- family caregiver
- father
- Fear
- Feeding
- flu
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- Forcing Food
- front line workers
- Full Code
- Funeral
- Funeral Director
- Funeral Home
- Gift
- Gone From My Sight
- graduating from hospice
- gratitude
- Grief
- grief and loss
- Grief Counselor
- grief support
- griever
- grieving
- Guilt
- HIPAA
- Holiday season
- holidays
- Home Care
- home death
- home health
- home healthcare
- Hospice
- Hospice Blue Book
- hospice care
- hospice chaplain
- hospice education
- hospice end of life care
- hospice for pets
- hospice nurse
- hospice nurses
- hospice physician
- Hospice Social Worker
- Hospice Staff
- hospice volunteer
- hospital
- How Do I Know You ?
- How Do I Know You? Dementia at the End of Life
- How to's
- How to's Suicide
- Hydration or dehydration
- infant death
- labor
- last stages of life
- lethargy
- life
- life limiting
- life support
- life threatening
- life-threatening
- literature on death in French
- living
- mail person
- media
- Medicade
- Medicare
- medication
- medications
- midwife
- moment of death
- morphine
- mother
- My Friend I Care
- narcotics
- New Rules For End Of Life Care
- No Code
- Not Eating
- nurse
- Nursing facility
- Nursing home
- nutrition
- Old Age
- older pet
- orientation
- oxygen
- pain
- pain at end of life
- pain management
- pain relief
- palliative care
- palliative sedation
- pandemic
- personality
- Pet death
- Pet illness
- pets at end of life
- physician
- podcast
- POLST
- prepare for death
- quality of life
- religion
- Retirement Home
- sacred
- self care
- sign of fast death
- signs of death
- signs of dying
- signs of end of life
- signs of fast death
- sleep
- Social Worker
- spanish grief literature
- Spanish literature on death
- stages of grief
- Suicide
- Suicide Support
- Supervisors
- support
- terminal
- terminal agitation
- terminal diagnosis
- terminal restlessness
- The Eleventh Hour
- The Final Act of Living
- This Is How People Die
- Time
- Time of Death
- to-do
- trauma
- treatments
- volunteer
- volunteers
- washing the body
- widow
- wife
- You Need Care Too
Medicine and medical technology can prolong our life but not indefinitely and it is generally at the expense of our quality of living. Or we can reframe how we think...