Feeling Loss and Alive

“I’m not who I was since Parkinson’s,” he said. And sometimes, “I don’t find the first word I’m after. But I’ll take the second word, the third word. I’ll take it because I like new ways of expressing things. It makes the work alive.”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2013/11/11/novelist-reveals-a-twist-in-the-tale/?ref=todayspaper

Art and Death Class

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Suicide and terminal illness – deBlasio

“It’s kind of an unbelievable, incredibly difficult moment in life,” Mr. de Blasio said in an interview with the radio station WNYC. “We all thought we would be saying goodbye in some more traditional way, and suddenly he was gone.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-addresses-ailing-fathers-suicide-in-70s.html?ref=todayspaper

One nurse’s opinion:

One nurse’s opinion: http://allnurses.com/general-articles-about/end-life-issues-475562.html

Thoughts about care for people who are likely approaching death

To help inform its work, the committee invites individuals and organizations to share their thoughts about care for people who are likely approaching death. The committee is interested in learning about: barriers to and opportunities for improving care for individuals and their families, patient and family experiences with care, and health care professionals’ experiences providing care. Through November 1, 2013.  http://www.iom.edu/Activities/Aging/TransformingEndOfLife.aspx

A fact sheet

A fact sheet that answers some of the questions patients, their family members, and caregivers may have about the end of life.
http://m.cancer.gov/topics/factsheets/end-of-life-care

Discusses the experience of caring for dying patients, including how to promote a good death for the patient.

Discusses the experience of caring for dying patients, including how to promote a good death for the patient. Hospice is discussed. Includes cases with discussion and references. http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/eol.html

Receiving care that their doctors considered futile

A new study suggests that nearly 11 percent of patients in intensive care units at large medical centers received care that their doctors considered futile.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2013/09/11/futile-care-at-lifes-end/?ref=todayspaper&#038;

Many of us die frightened and unprepared because of the poorly understood role that money play

Why few of us get to die peacefully at home. Many of us die frightened and unprepared because of the poorly understood role that money plays in shaping our medical choices, writes guest columnist Katy Butler.

http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2021838415_katybutleropedslowmedicine17xml.html

Why don’t we die the way we say we want to die?

“Why don’t we die the way we say we want to die? In part because we say we want good deaths but act as if we won’t die at all.”

Read more: http://medcitynews.com/2013/09/end-of-life-care-a-great-american-tragedy/#ixzz2embSSVah