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Category Archives: Death and Dying
Grief, Loss, and Suicide
Golden Gate Bridge According to the nonprofit Bridge Rail Foundation (BRF), more people took their life from the Golden Gate Bridge in 2013 (46) than in any other year since 2000, when the group began keeping records. Mary Currie, spokesperson for the … Continue reading →
What to Say to Someone in Grief
When someone we know loses a loved one, we often don’t know what to say. In order to say something meaningful, we dream up (think up) what we think is appropriate. Unfortunately, we can say something that, to the person … Continue reading →
Why do People Change the Subject from Grief and Loss?
Recently a woman whose son in his mid-20’s died. In her lengthy blogs, she complains about some people in her life who didn’t want to hear her grief. Her son’s death was recent, within the month; he also had an … Continue reading →
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Losing Hope in Life
“You wouldn’t understand, Dad,” Carterville, Ill, 15-year old high school sophomore Jordan Lewis said, “I’m being picked on at school.” Jordan explained to his father Brad Lewis why he had decided to quit football after only one day of practice this … Continue reading →
Why Suffering?
Of all the experiences of suffering people in the last century endured, the death camp represents one of the worst. To be separated from family members, including children, after days-long train rides in cattle cars, to be beaten by fellow-countrymen … Continue reading →
What Keeps Us Living?
On August 11, Ruthie, 89, and Harold “Doc” Knapke, 91, died within 11 hours of each other. The remarkable pair met in 3rd grade, lived out the last years of their lives sharing a room in a western Ohio nursing … Continue reading →
Death, We Dare Not Speak Your Name II
“I want to remember Grandma as she was when she was living,” we say, to justify not looking at her dead. There, I said it. Dead. “Grandma has passed away,” we say. “Passed,” we also say, even less to speak … Continue reading →
Death, We Dare Not Speak Your Name
I struggle with death. Though not about to die, I am dying. We all are. I am not alone in my struggle, either, because none of us escapes this world alive. I’m sure you’ve thought about it, perhaps rarely, but … Continue reading →
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Suicide Among our Military and Job’s Survival I
According to recent media reports, military deaths from suicide this year surged to an average of 1 per day. That rate exceeds previous years by many percentage points. As a result, our military leaders have expressed concern. “He was so … Continue reading →
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Who Comforts the Grieving Doctor? II
When a doctor holds “hard knowledge” of a patient’s true condition, he or she feels a burden. “Sometimes I’ll take a chart and look at the imaging and everything’s worse and the numbers are worse,” one doctor said. “I have to … Continue reading →
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