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Category: Living Well to Die in Peace

When Doctors Honor the Priorities of their Patients Based on Their Own Life Experiences

May 15, 2018 pfrancis417

There was a touching piece in The New York Times recently with a doctor describing how he would do whatever it took…

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Posted in: Living Well to Die in Peace, Treatment at End of Life

Redesigning How We Die

March 12, 2018 pfrancis417

Dr. BJ Miller, a hospice and palliative medicine physician, thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of…

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Posted in: Living Well to Die in Peace, Treatment at End of Life

Shedding the Causes for Regret before the End of Our Lives

February 16, 2018 pfrancis417

Bonnie Ware, who was a palliative care nurse, worked with many people during the last days of their lives.  She…

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Posted in: Living Well to Die in Peace

Steve Jobs on the Importance of Remembering That You Are Going to Die

February 8, 2018 pfrancis417

In a commencement address at Stanford University in 1995, Steve Jobs talked about death and how keeping the focus of…

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Rehearsing Death through Savasana in Yoga

February 5, 2018 pfrancis417

The final pose of any yoga class is one of deep restoration: Savasana, the relaxation pose.  Its Sanskrit name, “Savasana” (shah-VAHS-uh-nuh),…

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Avoiding Regrets Through Kindness

February 2, 2018 pfrancis417

Today, as I listened to A Conversation with Brene Brown and DeRay McKesson, @WestsideNYC, called The Courage To Show Up,…

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Living As If This Was Your Last Year: Learning Through Buddhism

February 1, 2018 pfrancis417

What would you do differently if you knew this was your last year on earth? Paradoxically, the mediation by Budhhist…

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Posted in: Learning from Different Cultures, Living Well to Die in Peace

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