Something to Think About

I watched my mother nod as her doctor explained her lung cancer. She looked like she understood, but neither of us did. Medical language can be confusing, especially when the...

When a dying parent refuses to tell the rest of the family about a terminal diagnosis,  should you keep the secret or encourage open conversations?

We have the medical capabilities and procedures to keep a person alivealmost indefinitely BUT is it in the best interest of the person to do so? Wehave to ask “what...

We are generally very tired, physically and emotionally, by the time our caregiving is over. Our thinking processes are not what we are used to. We are tired, weepy, aimless,...

We die the way we have lived and there are few death bed conversions. Facing the end of our life does make us look at life and its meanings, but...

Because we don’t really think about end of life care until we or someone close to us needs it we enter into relationships with hospice that may not be satisfactory...