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Palliative care
The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have had an incorrect view of what makes life significant. The problem is that they have had almost no view at all. Medicine’s focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet—and... See more
Atul Gawande • Being Mortal
hospicing, which recognizes the eventual inevitable end of modernity’s fundamentally unethical and unsustainable institutions, but sees the necessity of enabling a “good” death through which important lessons are processed.
Vanessa Machado De Oliveira • Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
The work of a death doula isn’t to go to people who are dying and knock them down so they transition quicker. It’s to accompany them, to help them be with what is inevitable, to breathe deeply through discomfort, to help heal any relationships while there’s still time, to support those around them who are in pain, to ease suffering, and support dig... See more
Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #117
We experience a deep sense of comfort when we connect with those who are aligned with the truth of our present moment.
Sherri Mitchell • Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
By accepting the inevitability of mortality, society is able to refocus and contemplate humanity in a whole new light.
ZINE • 3_Trends_Vol.15: Sarah Unger: Memento Mori, Natural Awe + Four Day Week
the physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.