End-of-life Care: Caring, not Curing
Dealing with death is incredibly difficult for most people. The fact that it is unavoidable does not make it any easier to deal with. It is completely natural to feel a great deal of sadness when you or your loved one is faced with this situation. However, planning ahead when it comes to end-of-life care will help you make the right choices when the time comes. End-of-life care options End-of-life care is a term used to describe the...
End of Life Discussion with Children
If you are a caregiver who has been caring for your elderly parents in the later half of their life, they may have been spending extra time in your house. For you, caregiving may have reached the point of figuring out end of life care options. You are also figuring out paperwork and getting things in order. And, while it may be sad or difficult to discuss, death is a natural occurrence. Knowing how to talk about it, especially with...
Writing a Will: Planning, Execution, and What Follows
End-of-life planning and care is a difficult matter to handle. It can be exceptionally difficult to talk about one’s death or bring up uncomfortable thoughts about the security and affairs of an ill love-one. Planning for and writing a will is exceedingly difficult, but it is one aspect of dying everyone should research carefully and plan ahead for. Before Writing a Will Account for all of your assets. Writing a will is a lengthy...
Physician-Assisted Death | Lifting the Stigma
South Africa’s former Anglican archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Desmond Tutu, recently celebrated his 85th birthday and had an interesting message: Legalize the option of a physician-assisted death. Although he has formally retired from public life, Tutu is still considered by many to represent the moral conscience of South Africa for his fight against apartheid. Coming from a religious elder, many were shocked by...
