med wordsMedical Terminology

Every health condition comes with its own language, medical terminology and decision options. End of Life is no different.  While CPR and DNR may be familiar to many, that doesn’t mean they are understood as intended.

New ‘terms’ such as Allow Natural Death or AND and Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking or VSED have been created to add to options to consider.   Understanding the words and terms used is one thing. Being able to act on them is another.

Allow Natural Death

Dying, death and the evasive language we use Euphemisms for dying and death abound. But what about the words used when telling someone – anyone – that death is near (‘near’ being a relative term). You’re dying may be the hardest words – right up there with ‘I’m sorry’...

Funerals: rites, rituals and traditions

We’ve been sending off our loved (or not so loved) ones since the beginning of time. While our End is always the same (dead is dead, however the end may have come) the rites, rituals and traditions take on as many different forms as there are cultures. Long-standing...

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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander the Great