Monthly Archives: June 2018

Source: WHY NOT HOSPICE? A Reluctance To Refer | BK Books

A remembrance of Mike Potemra and Charles Krauthammer. Source: Mike Potemra, Charles Krauthammer: A Remembrance of Both | National Review

Frances Shani Parker writes about older adults, eldercare, hospice, palliative care, nursing homes, dementia, caregiving, death, and bereavement. Source: Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog: Suicide: Older Adult Risk Factors, Prevention (Video 3:20)

Source: Grief Healing: Pet Loss: Supporting Your Grieving Pet

Suicide Thinking:I Want To Be Dead is this week’s Ask Dr. Neimeyer question from a wife who lost a husband of over 50 years and can’t find meaning in life Source: Suicide thinking: I want to be dead – Ask … Continue reading →

The recent reports of well-known celebrities dying from suicide have brought this topic to our national attention. The statistics are stunning – 43,000 suicide deaths in 2016 make it the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S., and in … Continue reading →

One of the biggest problems in the world of grief today is the repackaging of the 5 Stages of Death and Dying into the 5 Stages of Grief. Source: Stages of Grief: The Myth – The Grief Recovery Method

The Impossible Suicide: Anthony Bourdain is this week’s AfterTalk Inspirational, by Christopher Shroeder who knows suicide intimately, and met Bourdain. Source: The Impossible Suicide: AfterTalk Inspirational 6.21.18 – AfterTalkAfterTalk

Let’s have a conversation about grief support.  Actually, scratch that, let’s not have a – as in singular – conversation … Source: Good Grief Support Isn’t Just a One Time Thing – What’s Your Grief

Krauthammer was admired across the political spectrum, unfailingly elegant and civil, and stubbornly independent-minded Source: Charles Krauthammer Dies: Conservative Icon Remembered | National Review