What to Say to Your Parent When They’re Dying
Lindsay Robertson
Archive for the 'Grief' Category
Nowhere Else to Be
The following story is by Jennifer Heidmann, MD, FACP. She is the Medical Director of Redwood Coast PACE in Eureka, CA, as well as a physician for Hospice of Humboldt and a hospitalist at St Joseph Hospital. “You played with Oscar Peterson?” I said, and he looked at me
Doctor: Here’s why people need to be OK with talking about death
Doc Thompson End-of-life medical care is a sensitive issue that people are often too afraid to talk about until it’s too late. Dr. Jessica Zitter joined Monday’s “The Morning Blaze with Doc Thompson” to talk about why doctors
How to Cope with Anticipatory Grief and Ambiguous Loss
What to do when the person you are grieving is here but not here By Cynthia Orange The longer we live and the more we experience, the more we find ourselves in the cracks between joy and contentment on one side of life’s continuum and grief and loss on the other.
Grief, like love, is not a straight line to a destination
VICTORIA BREWSTER & JULIE SAEGER NIERENBERG When someone whom we love dies, quite naturally we grieve. We have lost the connection to our loved one. So it seems. We have lost the place in our lives where we felt safe in the knowledge that our beloved was physically accessible,