During these Covid-19 times, the desire to create or revise one’s Advance Directive as increased tremendously.
Virtual presentations are available or a variety of issues, including, Advance Directive basics, having the Death Talk, and Medical Aid-in-Dying.
Presentations are on Zoom, lasting an hour per session, and are available for up to 100 people at a time.
Custom presentations are available upon request.
“We are all in pain, we choose to suffer.” I remember, as a teenager, my father spending hours in the yard landscaping as an escape from the vagaries of pastoring a church. I always think of him as the bishop’s troubleshooter in the local United Methodist conference. On behalf of the church, he led civil
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In the book Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber, author/theologian Ken Wilber talks about the years-long struggle his wife had with breast cancer. After numerous attempts, often cutting edge or non-traditional, even “natural” treatments, to stem the progress of the disease, he and his wife finally
This is a test of the death talk blog in order to see if there is anything that actually hits the archive page
What if it were you? Nancy Cruzan lost her life January 11, 1983. She was finally set to rest in peace after being pronounced dead on December 26, 1990. In the intervening eight years she lay in a permanent vegetative state. She lost control of her car near Carthage, Missouri going home from work at
The first time I picked up an Advance Directive form it hit me. “How can I possibly foresee all the possible situations that may occur to me?” I asked myself. At what point would I decide life was no longer worth living? If I can’t make these decisions for myself without situational context, how can