Death and Dying – Page 7 – Caregiving Articles

“God’s Greatest Gift”

Is there a subject more difficult to talk about than death and dying? Especially your own? I can’t think of one. Yet it can be and awesome and rewarding experience.

Caregiver Guilt

By Dorothy Womack

The role of a caregiver is usually followed by varying degrees of guilt. An examination of the grief process following a loved ones death.

“All people of the universe have the potential to be what they truly would hope to be. Human potential knows no limits and we are all gifted with this potential.” The Dali Lama enables further reflection on this statement and its meaning for caregivers.

The Nature of Suffering and the Nature of Opportunity at the End of Life

By Ira R. Byock M.D.

Issues of care-giving by physicions. Education in med schools nowadays lacks emphasis on how to take care of a patient during terminal phases of illness. How human suffering is aliviated by doctors and healers.

The Loss Of My Pet Magi

By Gail Mitchell

Death and Dying

The loss of a pet involves the same grief process as when we lose a human loved one. The author’s experience of life, caregiving, and loss of her treasured pet, Magi.

Baby Boomers Fear Talking to Parents About Death

By National Hospice Organization

Research shows that Americans are more likely to talk to their children about safe sex and drugs then to their terminally ill parents about choices in care as they near life’s final stages.

The Nature Of Loss – Excerpt -Chapter 6

By Beth Witrogen McLeod

Discussion of self-transformation during caring for the loved one and after the loved one is lost. Open your heart and enter a peaceable place ready to face your suffering and accept love.

Angels Of Death Help Terminally Ill

By John Lee

Compassion in Dying provides counseling and support related to end-of-life choices. The organization believes dying individuals should be permitted to make their own end-of-life decisions, including hastening their own death.