Hospice patients come to our care after being cut, burned, and poisoned. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment are the normative methods of care for most of the patients who enter a life-threatening disease. Hospital staff members are trained to be aggressive about curative care. Hospice care is a phase of care whereby aggressive treatment is no longer appropriate. Palliative care…
Tag: Dying
Dealing With Loss Teaching Your Children About Life And Death
At some point or another you and your children will be faced with death. It’s important that you teach your children that death is merely an aspect of life, and help them become comfortable with the topic. One of the best things you can do to prepare your children for the prospect of a death is to talk about it…
You Are Killing Me
In a lot of old movies you can see men smoking pipes or cigarettes or cigars and wearing smoking jackets or a woman in a sexy pose, a cigarette between her fingers, blowing smoke up in the air. Those were cool looks back then. Since finding out how bad smoking is for you and the people around you, it isn’t…
Death Resources
This interesting article addresses some of the key issues regarding death resources. A careful reading of this material could make a big difference in how you think about death resources. Each of us find ourselves wondering about dying. This introspective look at our future engages our hearts and minds to enter into what we cannot embrace. This journey into one’s…