by External Article | Jul 2, 2020 | Care Work Library, Death & Dying, Finding Meaning |
While Jewish tradition maintains that human life is of infinite value and that its preservation and extension overrides virtually every other religious imperative, relieving pain and allowing for the soul’s peaceful departure are also values well-established in Jewish... 
by STAT news | Mar 16, 2018 | Caregiver News |
We need to encourage them to do so In medicine, we talk a lot about advance directives, mainly in the context of end-of-life treatment. But, recently, while treating a patient with schizophrenia, I realized how powerful and important that same document could be in... 
by Kaiser Health News | Aug 25, 2017 | Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Death & Dying |
By JoNel Aleccia Bill Harris is blunt: For more than a year, he has been trying to help his wife die. The 75-year-old retired tech worker says it’s his duty to Nora Harris, his spouse of nearly four decades, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in... 
by Guest Author | Mar 10, 2017 | Caregiver Stories |
John was a highly successful civil engineer and a loving husband. He was by nature a real go-getter. And so when his wife was told that she would need complicated heart surgery for a dysfunctional heart valve, he went into full throttle. They arranged to have her... 
by Kaiser Health News | Apr 22, 2016 | Caregiver News |
In a perfect world, patients with advance directives would be confident that their doctors and nurses — no matter where they receive care — could know in a split second their end-of-life wishes. But this ideal is still in the distance. Patients’ documents often go... 
by Joy Johnston | Feb 26, 2016 | Caregiving 101, Caregiving Relationships, Death & Dying, Planning |
The only parent-child conversation more excruciating than the birds and the bees is the death talk. In a fantasy world, our parents would record their end-of-life wishes in a legal document and set aside a good chunk of change for funding. They would include a... 
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