Category Archive: Death and Dying

Weekly Round-Up

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Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blogs which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me something, inspired me, and which I’ve… Continue reading

Hard it is to lose a friend…

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With Right of Survivorship Hard it is to lose a friend whose dying could foretell my end and hard it is to pick up strands of living, when those other hands are stilled… Continue reading

The motherless daughters club

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I was incredibly moved by a recent post on All Things Caregiver on being a “motherless daughter” and having read her post, I suddenly remembered Nancy had kindly written me a guest blog… Continue reading

Death of newspaper columnist Sue Carroll on Christmas Day

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I was deeply saddened to read of the death on Christmas Day of newspaper columnist Sue Carroll. From time to time I had read her down to earth columns in the Mirror newspaper… Continue reading

Learning to let go

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“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when… Continue reading

Friday Round-Up

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In the midst of preparing this week’s round-up, I read the news of the death of  writer, Christopher Hitchens, who wrote so movingly and honestly of his own experience of living with cancer.  It… Continue reading

Ten secrets to healing well from life’s ordeals

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Written by Judy Tatelbaum, LCSW Although we would rather never have to confront the ordeals of life, painful situations like loss, the death of a loved one, life threatening illness, or danger in the world,… Continue reading