Do Your Family a Favor and Write an Advanced Directive Pronto
Like most Americans, when your time comes, you probably want to go through the process of dying surrounded by those you love, in the comfort of your home free of pain.
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Watch ‘Em Die
Take a look at the pictures of the facility that let 87-year-old Lorraine Bayless die. The slang term for a place like this is a “Brass and Glass Palace.”
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New Novel Explores Portrait of a Widower
Baltimore’s own Michael Tucker, an actor perhaps best known as lawyer Stuart Markowitz on “L.A. Law,” returned to Charm City Sept. 30 to read from his first novel, After Annie, at the Baltimore Book Festival.
Our company ChangingMedia was an official sponsor of the book festival and we filmed authors speaking at the main literary salon. I was particularly interested to hear Tucker speak about his novel, which explores life and love after the death of a spouse.
Continue ReadingWhen I Grow Up (And Die), I Want to Be a Tree
Our post about setting the greening world on metaphorical fire with the strike of a seed-infused matchstick apparently inspired one of our readers to think about death. Always wanted to branch out and do new things but can never find the time? Not to worry, you’ve got all of eternity. With the Bios Urn from designer Gerard Moliné, you can bio-degrade in style, nourishing the seed of your choice so that you sprout back up in tree form.
Continue ReadingReflections on Aging and Dying from 72-year-old Tom Hayden
This will, in effect, be a “guest post” from Tom Hayden, who most of us oldsters remember as an icon of 1960’s radicalism… and the ex-husband of Jane Fonda. He was recently interviewed by the Washington Post at his office in Culve…
Continue ReadingWhat to Do With Your Ashes
If you would rather be buried in a casket, this post probably is not for you. But after Saturday’s Interesting Stuff item about James Doohan’s ashes being carried into space last week, I wondered about the ways people deal with…
Continue ReadingLonger Old Age but Lower Quality Near the End?
A few days ago I added a must read link to Michael Wolff’s New York Magazine article, A Life Worth Ending. It’s an eye-opening piece, detailing long drawn-out decline of his mother. Check it out — it really is a must read. For our par…
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Dying Well: A conversation with Dr. Ira Byock
Check out Dr. Ira Byock on the latest episode of Prime Time Radio explaining how to ensure the best possible care for those we love who are dying. In his book, “The Best Care Possible”, Byock emphasizes we must not only remake our healthcare system, we must also move past our cultural aversion to talking about dying and acknowledge the fact of mortality. It turns out, Byock argues, that we all must eventually balance the length of our life with the quality of our life.
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