Tag Archive: dying

Weekly Round Up – The Lisa Adams Edition

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

Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge Day 29 #HAWMC

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Day 29 of the WEGO Health Activist Writer’s Month which I have signed up for – a month dedicated to the art of writing about health.  The penultimate day of our writing challenge and… Continue reading

Nothing exists except this

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“Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect.  The wisest know nothing.”  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing exists anymore for me outside of my mother’s hospital bed. The horizons… Continue reading

When one person’s trash is another’s treasure

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“One Person’s Trash” is a wonderful series of personal essays which appeared in Open Salon on the theme of spring cleaning…but with a twist. The stories reflect on objects that people can’t bring themselves to throw away. I was particularly… Continue reading

What legacy will you leave behind?

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Now I’m not being maudlin here, but as those with experience of breast cancer know, having looked at death squarely in the face, we know that dying is something we all have to… Continue reading

Jade Goody dies on Mother’s Day

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Jade Goody passed away in her sleep this morning at home in Essex. In the past few months, Jade’s story and her decision to die in the public eye has been criticised, villified, admired… Continue reading

Jade Goody media circus is getting out of hand

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As anyone who has read my previous posts on Jade will know I was initially pleased that her decision to allow the cameras to film her treatment and the resulting media coverage has… Continue reading

Compassion and Presence: Spiritual Care for the Living and Dying

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I am very excited at the news that Ireland’s first International Spiritual Care Conference is taking place on the 27 and 28 April 2009 at the Europe Hotel in Killarney. The conference is… Continue reading

Jade Goody: The Blog Debate Continues

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Jade Goody  – the debate continues. So many people blogging on Jade this past week. Tom Leonard in the Telegraph tells us that America just doesn’t get this Jade Goody thing , letting us  know… Continue reading