Japan’s high-tech futuristic cemeteries
JAPAN – Yumiko Nakajima, a woman in her 70s, is selecting her grave. But instead of choosing a hunk of stone in a
JAPAN – Yumiko Nakajima, a woman in her 70s, is selecting her grave. But instead of choosing a hunk of stone in a
Rebecca Lloyd is Compassionate Communities project worker for Milford Care Centre in Limerick
From Ira Byock, prominent palliative care physician and expert in end of life decisions, a lesson in Dying Well. Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone. Dying Well brings us to the homes and bedsides of families with whom Dr. Byock has worked,
UK – I’m worried that if I speak out about the change in the law we so badly need, it will alienate trustees, staff and donors.
A doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial social issues of our time. Though the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home—which hospice care provides—many of us spend our last days fearful
Thinking about planning a funeral? Want to save time and money? We all come to a stage in our lives when it’s natural to think about what will happen when we are gone. We wonder about loved ones and what we would like to leave to them as a parting gift.
UK – In a life of inevitabilities it is the most obviously inescapable fate of all, yet remarkably few Britons have discussed their death and its aftermath, according to a survey, with little more than a third having made a will. While more than 30% of people
USA – I’ve seen it too many times to count. My husband has been a funeral director for most of his adult life, and I worked alongside him for almost seven years. And the story, while always tragic and heartbreaking in its own way, is almost always the same.
AUSTRALIA – Japan has the oldest population in the world and in the next 50 years it is set to shrink by 40 million, leading to its end-of-life industry booming. Almost all Japanese people get cremated and have their ashes put into family crypts in conventional looking cemeteries.
OH – At 71 years young, Lois Griswold of Wyoming is starting to get her “ducks in a row.” Griswold isn’t facing imminent challenges to her health and vitality, but she and her husband, Gary, 67, visited Arlington Memorial Gardens in Springfield Township to identify a ground burial alternative.