Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Saturday, May 28, 2022

BC Bereavement Day

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All of us experience loss and some of us don't know where to turn. In my province, there is help for those who suffered a loss.  Every y...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Planning a Canadian Funeral?

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  Average Canadian Funeral Costs and The Process This is a great resource for those who are planning a funeral in Canada. I am highlightin...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Death Doula or End of Life Doula

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My sister-in-law works in Palliative Care, and the other day we were talking about helping people who were dying, and she said she could q...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Medical Assistance in Death

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My wife’s brother’s daughter, our niece who was in her early 50’s recently died of Pancreatic Cancer and she used the Medical Assistance ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Accepting the inevitable

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Ronnie Bennet at Time Goes By has some interesting posts, and she had one a while back that was titled, “ Being 97 ” in which a 97-year-o...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Medical Assistance in Dying

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I had a cousin who chose to seek medical assistance when she was dying. A friend of mine had his wife seek medical assistance when she was ...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

When the End is near

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Providing care for your adult parents during their retirement years can be a demanding job.  And the job continues to become more demanding...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

How to Write a Compassionate Condolence Letter

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This was written by Deborah Quilter published November 1, 2019 in Next Ave I thought this was a powerful piece on a difficult topic so ...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

Talking to a dying person

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I have talked about this before, the five regrets of the dying but I thought I would talk about it again. My favourite cousin had a brain a...
Saturday, April 6, 2019

The loss of a spouse

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I have known Gary for over 40 years and his wife, with the support of her family, committed assisted suicide (which is legal in Canada). G...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Happiness and age

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Academics get research grants for many great ideas and we advance the knowledge base of mankind through these research grants. However, th...