How Elisabeth Kübler-Ross changed dying
USA – July 8, 1926: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the psychiatrist who pioneered treatment for people with terminal illness, is born.
USA – July 8, 1926: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the psychiatrist who pioneered treatment for people with terminal illness, is born.
Since her husband, Iain, died seven months ago, Caroline Twigg has had to face an unexpected problem – what to do with his
UK – Sheila Kitzinger, the natural childbirth activist who died in April, pioneered the idea of birth plans. Her daughters, Celia and Jenny, describe how their mother made a death plan – so she could die at home according to
IRELAND – A bitter day, as a white coffin is carried along a West Cork hillside. Afterwards, red-eyed relatives drink whiskey at the graveside but tradition grants no shelter from cold or loss. At dusk, a motorboat bobs on a river as two strangers
Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Soygal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It includes not only a lucid, inspiring and
This is a book written for you and your children,” explains Joey O’Connor. “It initiates a conversation on a difficult subject most people prefer to avoid. It is about people like you and me struggling to figure out what they really believe when the unbelievable has happened.
What is it like to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O’Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow.
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
IRELAND – No parent wants to think about dying, so much so that many of us put off putting provisions in place in the event that we do pass. But making a will now could save you and your loved ones a lot of heartache in the long term.
US – In July 2013, some 1.2 million Twitter users followed a remarkable series of tweets from NPR’s Scott Simon. He was sending updates from the hospital room where his mother was living the last days of her life.