Looking at death, from many angles…
Have you ever seen a person die bitter? The person may refuse to let a certain family member see or speak to them during their last days, knowing damned well this will inflict pain upon the person. In other cases, it may be the person who is not dying that does the withholding by refusing to […]
I really deplore people who mistreat service people. Yes, I mean waiters and waitresses but it goes way beyond that. In this case I am talking about people who abuse nurses and other hospital staff when a family member is ill or dying. Stressed out, they heap abuse on some poor person who is trying
Some people die suddenly and unexpectedly where there is a lot of ceremony around the deaths of others. Some die in relative comfort with friends and/or family gathered around to ease their passing. Others die quickly and some suffer for weeks or months or years, waiting to die.
Considering my mother’s situation, I have learned something new about death. I think people imagine their passing will somehow be painless. They think they’ll die suddenly or that doctors will be able to control their pain and ease them on out. My mother is not in physical pain but she is feeling anguish. She is
My mother is expected to die within six months. This is a formal estimate. The woman who would know has intimated to both, Annalisa and I that she expects her to die much sooner. We still don’t know specifically what she is to die from so we are left to guess. I quit calling myself
There is a terrific discussion around death on the Death/Suicide video. It made me think of the Titanic movie which I think most have seen. I was extremely moved by the movie, never mind the manipulations or whatever flaws and cheesiness that might have been part and parcel of the film. Fact is it depicted
