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Dr. Leeat Granek on Coping with Grief
Posted by Guest Blogger on January 26, 2012
With all of this talk in the media about whether or not grief is a mental disorder, we seemed to have missed the boat about what's most important when it comes to coping with our losses.
In this short video I did for Open to Hope Foundation, I talk about what I've learned about grief from both my own personal experience with loss and my academic research and work in this area.
The most important thing to remember is also the most simple—there's no right or wrong way to grieve. Part of the issue with grieving today is the lack of knowledge around ritual, and a discomfort we have around death, loss, and grief.
In the ...
Weekly TweetChats! Join Us Thursdays
Posted by Melissa Barber on January 23, 2012
After a brief break for the holidays, our TweetChats will return this Thursday, and with the help of some friends on Twitter, these chats will now be weekly! Please join us online to discuss different aspects of death and dying. Not sure what a TweetChat is? Learn more about them below.This upcoming TweetChat will be about a blog post that made waves throughout the online end-of-life care community, "How Doctors Die, It's Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should be." The article relates the story of the a retired physician's friend—also a doctor—who was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, and how in general, doctors tend to opt for less-aggressive treatment in their own ...
Death with Dignity Introduced in the Massachusetts State House
Posted by Peg Sandeen, MSW on January 20, 2012
Every state has its own process for passing laws. Among those which allow voters to directly debate and decide on state law through the ballot initiative process, there's even more variability in how an initiative ends up in front of the voters in a general election. There are indirect initiatives which must first go through a state legislature and direct initiatives which go from signature gathering to the ballot. Some states have a referendum process where a state legislature can place a proposed piece of legislation in front of the voters, and others allow initiatives only for constitutional amendments.The road to the November 2012 ballot in Massachusetts is a particularly winding one, and I checked in with Dignity ...
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December Blog Recap - The Best of 2011
Posted by Melissa Barber on January 12, 2012
News from www.DeathwithDignity.org "Respect the will of the people." Happy New Year!
2011 was quite a year in the Death with Dignity movement; we believe it laid the groundwork for future victories! In this newsletter, please join me in reflecting on the highlights of our blog over the last year.On the policy side of things, Massachusetts and Vermont made strides toward doubling the number of Death with Dignity laws in the US. This strong support couldn't have happened without breaking down the taboo of discussing death and people learning the facts about Death with Dignity. Personal experiences shared through our blog (and at dining room tables) and the life-affirming documentary How to Die in Oregon help ...
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The greatest human freedom is to live, and die, according to one's own desires and beliefs. From advance directives to physician-assisted dying, death with dignity is a movement to provide options for the dying to control their own end-of-life care.
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