The Lost Art Of Dying Well
When sickness and death strike, sometimes guidance from the past offers the clearest path forward.
Black Lives and Black Deaths Matter
People experience death in varied ways. Different colors, different cultures, demand different approaches to the dying process.
Yes, Talk to Children About Death
Children have also experienced the death of close relatives, but it often happens that we try to hide death from children in a misguided attempt to protect them. Far from helpful, this confuses children and prevents them from handling the pain of the loss they have suffered.
How to Be Part of Online Death Discussions
Please welcome death and grief educator, author, and public speaker Gail Rubin, aka The Doyenne of Death, as a guest contributor to the blog.
Death Cafe Oakland
Bill Palmer shares some reflections and insights as founder of Death Cafe Oakland in California.
Most Mexicans Fear Death and Don’t Talk About It
Does celebrating the Day of the Dead mean Mexicans welcome death? Not necessarily, according to one prominent end-of-life expert in Mexico.
Ethical concerns during a pandemic
As coronavirus cases increase worldwide, institutions keep their communities informed with frequent updates—but only up to a point. They share minimal information such as number of cases, but omit the names of individuals and identifying information, raising issues of privacy vs. transparency, which may be a life or death concern.
The seriousness of the coronavirus for us all
We now know that the coronavirus pandemic is deadly serious for all of the world's people. This fact has been reasonably clear since mid-January, and was undeniably clear a month later. As of now, this nation does not have the pandemic under control, and we did not control it at any time since it began.