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Do Your Family a Favor and Write an Advanced Directive Pronto

March 28, 2013 | Bruce Brittain, ChangingAging Contributor

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.

Watch ‘Em Die

March 4, 2013 | Dr. Bill Thomas

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.”

New Novel Explores Portrait of a Widower

October 5, 2012 | Kavan Peterson, Editor, ChangingAging.org

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.

When I Grow Up (And Die), I Want to Be a Tree

September 6, 2012 | Hasdai Westbrook, ChangingMedia

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.

Reflections on Aging and Dying from 72-year-old Tom Hayden

July 18, 2012 | John Schappi, Parkinson's and Me

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…

What to Do With Your Ashes

May 29, 2012 | Ronni Bennett, ChangingAging Contributor

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…

Longer Old Age but Lower Quality Near the End?

May 24, 2012 | Marti Weston, AsOurParentsAge.net

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…

Dying Well: A conversation with Dr. Ira Byock

April 12, 2012 | Kavan Peterson, Editor, ChangingAging.org

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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