Talking About Death And Dying

Written by Judi Singleton


I work as a caregiver now and for years I worked in a hospital geriatric ward. I counseled families and patients on death and dying issues. Inrepparttar Western society we have not been trained to talk about our own death so we cannot talk about dying to a loved one. Most of us find ourselves feeling inadequate to having this discussion on fear of death, issues of legacy, like what lives on after a person dies. The old arguments byrepparttar 140091 religions do not satisfy a lot of us anymore. Since discoveries like quantum physics a new view is emerging.

Issues of legacy, that is, what lives on after an individual dies: The fear of death is to some extent instinctive: nature has given usrepparttar 140092 drive to survive. While we live we are not separated off from nature andrepparttar 140093 universe: our atoms and molucules are arranged according to our memory everyday. We arrange and rearrange our personalities daily. But most of us strive to keep this set of information intact for as long as possible. We also are afraid of losing our consciousness. To fear death is useless Death is nothing to us and no concern of ours . . . When we shall be no more, whenrepparttar 140094 union of body and spirit that engenders us has been disrupted - to us, who shall then be nothing, nothing by any hazard will happen any more at all. Nothing will have power to stir our senses, not though earth be fused with sea and sea with sky . . . Rest assured that we have nothing to fear in death. One who no longer is cannot suffer, or differ in any way from one who has never been born. [De rerum natura, iii:828-840; 864-867]

yellow band article

Written by Carl Harris


This question intrigued me enough to find out what they were all about. This was a couple of months ago and I’m quite attached to mine now although I have had some interesting comments. “Have you been to wet and wild today, is that your waterslide entry band? And…“Are you collectingrepparttar seals off vegemite lids?” Unique hobby but no I’m not. The yellow bands are engraved with Lance's mantra, Live Strong and all proceeds go torepparttar 140090 ‘Lance Armstrong Foundation’ which helps people with cancer live strong. For those of you who are not familiar with Lance Armstrong you may recognise this scene from Dodgeball, which featuresrepparttar 140091 legend himself.

Lance Armstrong: Hey, aren't you Peter La Fleur? Peter La Fleur: Lance Armstrong! Lance Armstrong: Ya, that's me. But I'm a big fan of yours. Peter La Fleur: Really? Lance Armstrong: Ya, I've been watchingrepparttar 140092 dodgeball tournament onrepparttar 140093 Ocho. ESPN 8. I just can't get enough of it. Good luck inrepparttar 140094 tournament. I'm really pulling for you against those jerks from Globo Gym. I think you better hurry up or you're gonna be late. Peter La Fleur: Uh, actually I decided to quit... Lance. Lance Armstrong: Quit? You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all atrepparttar 140095 same time. But withrepparttar 140096 love and support of my friends and family, I got back onrepparttar 140097 bike and wonrepparttar 140098 Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit. So what are you dying of that's keeping you fromrepparttar 140099 finals? Peter La Fleur: Right now it feels a little bit like... shame. Lance Armstrong: Well, I guess if a person never quit whenrepparttar 140100 going got tough, they wouldn't anything to regret forrepparttar 140101 rest of their life. Well good luck to you Peter. I'm sure this decision won't haunt you forever.

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