Posted on April 24, 2022April 22, 2022Organized Medicine Wants to Control Your Death. Acquiesce – or Exercise Your Autonomy. Managing dying and death is difficult enough. But if you do nothing, you’ll be a pawn in a profit-driven medical system. (Continue reading ...)
Posted on April 17, 2022April 15, 2022Getting Comfortable with the ‘D’ Word Talking about death doesn’t make it happen sooner. (Continue reading ...)
Posted on April 10, 2022April 7, 2022My Brother’s Keeper – Part Two Suffering after death — the family’s burden. (Continue reading ...)
Posted on April 3, 2022April 2, 2022My Brother’s Keeper – the Beginning of the End Do you know what can go wrong without advance directives and an end-of-life plan? You have NO IDEA. (Continue reading ...)
Posted on March 27, 2022March 25, 2022Good Death: Oxymoron or Possibility? How we die is in direct relationship to how we have lived. (Continue reading ...)
Posted on February 13, 2022February 11, 2022Two Heads Are Not Always Better Than One When it comes to your healthcare surrogate, do NOT name co-advocates! (Continue reading ...)
Posted on February 6, 2022February 3, 2022My 92-Year-Old Father Didn’t Need More Medical Care Ordering more tests and surgeries for dying patients is easy. Getting them the end-of-life care they deserve takes much more effort. (Continue reading ...)
Posted on January 30, 2022November 7, 2022How Do I Turn This Thing Off?!!! When you’re a heartbeat from dying, the high-tech gizmo that keeps you alive may do so against your wishes. (Continue reading ...)
Posted on January 16, 2022January 13, 2022The “Shell Game” is Deadly Serious, and Fraught With Room for Mistakes When dementia looms, how do you define ‘guideposts’ to signal: Enough is enough? (Continue reading ...)
Posted on January 9, 2022January 7, 2022Avoid becoming a victim of the U.S. end-of-life care system: Choose wisely American healthcare is supposed to help. At end of life, too often it victimizes us. (Continue reading ...)