Breathing Your Own Air
“Don’t keep me alive on life support; I don’t want to be a vegetable.” When you ask most people how they want to die, they say, “just don’t keep me alive on life support; I don’t want to be a vegetable.” Vegetables are offended. (And it’s a tactless term for an unconscious human who is […]
THE ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCATION AND COUNSELING (ADEC) COMMUNITY EDUCATOR AWARD
I was thrilled to be able to meet with other death educators, all using different modalities and innovative practices with different audiences. ADEC has been my professional home since 1994. I had been working with hospice for two years and felt a passion for working with dying people and the grief that goes with expected […]