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Buddhist teacher and hospice-care expert Frank Ostaseski, but it really can’t be said enough: “Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most.”
Elysha Dicks • Someday Is Today
It is an incredible privilege to be with someone who is making this journey into the eternal world. When you are present at the sacrament of someone’s death, you should be very mindful of their situation. In other words, you should not concentrate so much on your own grief. You should rather strive to be fully present to, with and for the person wh
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The mandate at the deathbed is to be fully present, attentive, and responsive.
Anita Diamant • Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew
Ostaseski summarized the insights he’s learned from the dying as “five invitations to be present.” 1) Don’t wait. 2) Welcome everything, push away nothing. 3) Bring your whole self to the experience. 4) Find a place of rest in the middle of things. 5) Cultivate don’t-know mind.
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
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There is a labor to dying as there is a labor to giving birth.
Frank Ostaseski • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
One patient with cancer was undergoing her fifth or sixth trial of chemotherapy, but she was not responding. She wanted to throw her pregnant daughter-in-law a baby shower but knew she would never make it out of the hospital before the baby was born.10 So the staff arranged for her to throw the shower at the hospital. They reserved a nice jade gard
... See moreChip Heath • The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
