by KathyKastner | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog
Men writing from the inside out about life’s end. In the picture in The New Yorker, sitting with his dog, on a bench by a park, Roger Agnell, looks none of his 93 years. Famous for his sports writing, ‘This Old Man’ is Agnell’s reflection on life, starting...
by KathyKastner | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog, Inspiration, Personal Decisions
When Karen Greve Young gave me the hot-off-the press copy of ‘Love you so much: a shared memoir’ she explained: “Sometime into my mother’s treatment for ovarian cancer, we decided we wanted to do something meaningful.” Told by both daughter and mother, the title of...
by KathyKastner | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Inspiration, Medical Decisions
The Conversation...
by KathyKastner | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Medical Decisions
Lizzy Miles – a thanatologist (one who studies death !) shares her story: Negotiating with...
by KathyKastner | Dec 14, 2014 | Featured
“They both died young, but they’d accepted death” Rodger Harding’s mom died of colon cancer, his father 3 years later of emphysema. “They both died young – 61 and 69 – but because they’d both accepted that they were dying, it took away the terror –...