Living & Dying: A Hospice Blog

Great essay on never knowing the burden of those you encounter, so practice compassion! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/your-money/ask-yourself-this-what-burdens-is-that-other-person-carrying.html...

A highly recommended DVD available to check out in our library! Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL is the uniquely funny, moving story of Greg (Thomas Mann), a...

This is the sweetest thing! Read this heartwarming story: Nicola Coyle takes in terminally ill dogs from shelters and gives them the love they deserve at end of life. She fulfills "doggie bucket lists" such as ice cream at the beach, pub visits with steak...

Fun and inspiring! Musical and documentary unite to introduce The Coffin Club, a truly unique community organisation bringing free-spirited seniors together to construct and personalise their own low-cost coffins. Based in small town New Zealand, with over 60 active members, this group of inspirational elderly...

On her deathbed my grandmother spoke with her sister who had died decades before--there are so many of us with these stories! ~Susan http://www.post-gazette.com/aging-edge/aging-edge-reports/2018/07/02/End-of-life-dreams-visions-terminally-ill-hospice-patient-research-kerr/stories/201806280003...

Sometimes you mush do what you feel is right, regardless of the naysayers. "Our house filled with flowers and food and people. It must have been hard for many of my friends, most of them mothers, to walk to the crib in which our son lay....