Monthly Archives: June 2016

There was no calm surrender the day my husband passed away. I was left spinning aimlessly. Source: Grief doesn’t go away after three days of bereavement leave

What if you had no fear of failing, of being alone or being disapproved by others? All this is the worst case scenario that we all fear when we take a leap of faith. It’s not unusual for widows to … Continue reading →

Source: End-of-life discussions challenging for doctors, study shows – CNN.com

Doctors and patients struggle to stop fighting cancer and start palliative care that lets patients live their last weeks and months. Source: When Stopping Cancer Treatment Isn’t Giving Up – NBC News

Ruth “Ellie” Duckette wanted to fulfill her last wish at Carolina Beach as she nears the end of a 20-year battle with breast cancer, the Wilmington Star-News reported. Source: NC hospice patient gets last wish — sand, sugar and sangria … Continue reading →

The half-life of love is forever.  ~Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her Eight years after my husband’s death, I carry our love in my heart pocket. I’m used to the ache. Longing doesn’t surprise me. I don’t … Source: The … Continue reading →

There was no calm surrender the day my husband passed away. I was left spinning aimlessly. Source: Grief doesn’t go away after three days of bereavement leave

Source: Teen Has Early Graduation Ceremony at His Mom’s Hospice Facility, Days Before Her Death – Inside Edition

In Victorian England after-death photographs became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of grief. Source: Taken from life: The unsettling art of death photography – BBC News

I took a seat on the kitchen chair that the daughter brought in. Pulling it up to the double bed, I tried to get close to my patient, a woman nearing the end of her battle with gastric cancer. She … Continue reading →