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New Survey on Californians’ End-of-Life Wishes
The number of Californians over the age of 85 has quadrupled over the past 40 years, but we still haven’t adapted to properly meet their end-of-life needs. “There is a huge gap between the place and way that people would like to spend their final days – and the place and way that they do,”…
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“Do not go gentle into that good night”
Dylan Thomas’s famous poem makes an important pointWhen the father of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was dying, it inspired Thomas to write one of his most famous works, “Do not go gentle into that good night.” The poem encourages Thomas’s father, and its readers, to fight for their lives when they approach death. The constant refrain in the poem is “Rage, rage…
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Memorial Jewelry Helps You Stay Connected While You Grieve
Scosha Woolridge is a Williamsburg, New York City – based artist, designer, and jeweler. She considers herself to be a “story jeweler”, drawing her primary inspiration from her travels to create jewelry that combines the modern and ancient worlds. She creates pieces from gems, stones, metal, and recycled fibers to achieve a “lived-in style”. Inspired…
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“50/50”
A dramedy film that explores cancer, emotional support, and how people cope with the possibility of death50/50 is a 2011 biopic that explores the trials of facing terminal illness with candor and without over-dramatization. Based on a true story, this comedy follows Adam, a 27-year-old guy just diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that is fatal in half of all patients. The movie is at once a comedy, a drama,…
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Actors Share Personal Caregiving Stories
KCET, the nation’s largest independent public television station serving Southern and Central California, announced a new original documentary series on caregiving hosted by Holly Robinson Peete called Your Turn to Care, airing on March 7 at 8 p.m. and March 14 at 8 p.m. The series explores a challenge thatAmerica’s growing generation of baby boomers were…
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“Life”
Anna Barbauld’s poem questions life, not death“Life,” by Anna Barbauld, is a unique poem; rather than question what death is, and wonder what happens to us after we die, Barbauld ponders what exactly life is. In her view, life is the active force, not death. Life leaves us when it wants to, rather than death seeking us out and taking us…
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Ghana’s Fantasy Coffins
A tribe called the Ga in the African country of Ghana is making a splash with its “fantasy coffin” designs. The coffins come in creative designs like fish and Coke bottles and cell phones, allowing families to bury their loved ones in a vessel that reflects their life and their work. This relatively new tradition…
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An Interview with Carole Brody Fleet
Carole Brody Fleet is the founder and CEO of Widows Wear Stilettos, Inc. as well as the author of Widows Wear Stilettos: A Practical and Emotional Guide for the Young Widow and the upcoming Happily EVEN After: A Guide to Getting Through (and Beyond!) the Grief of Widowhood. Kelly: First of all, can you tell…
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