Tag: end of life planning

• What The Lack Of End Of Life Planning Really Costs

  

  I want to share a deeply personal story. At the time of his death my daughter’s father and I had been divorced for four years. During our 23 year marriage, because of my career, we always had open discussions about dying and death. We were open with our daughter about death, never shielding or protecting…

  Jade

  May 18, 2020

  death and dying, emotional estate planning, end of life doula, end of life doula, grief

  a good death, autonomy in death, death, death and dying, death conversations, death doula, end of life planning, positive death movement

• A Dialogue About Death

  

  Every story ever written has a beginning, middle and an end. Every author considers the end when first sitting down to write a storyline; However in the greatest story an individual will ever author, the end is often left unscripted. We can’t write death in on our calendars and begin to plan when it seems…

  Jade

  April 21, 2020

  death and dying, emotional estate planning, end of life doula, end of life doula, fear, grief, life, personal development

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• We're Failing Families

  Are We Failing Families At The End Of Life? Of course we are failing families at the end of life!! Death and dying are treated as medical events rather than holistic ones! Conversations around the emotional and spiritual aspects of dying and death are completely shut down, circumvented or worse totally dismissed! In the past…

  Jade

  March 6, 2020

  death and dying, end of life doula, end of life doula, personal development

  alternative solutions, do death better, end of life planning, failing end of life, hospice, palliative

• Employee End of Life Benefits

  In my 30 year career I have worked several places and not one employer had what I call sufficient support for those who were bereaved. Not even the hospices. Three days of paid leave and maybe some flowers. That’s usually the sum total of support an employer lends to an employee after they experience the…

  Jade

  January 8, 2020

  death and dying, emotional estate planning, employee benefits, end of life doula, end of life doula

  emotional estate planning, employee benefits, end of life, end of life doula, end of life planning

• When Death Comes – An End of Life Doula Perspective

  Early on Life taught me that it had a set of bookends named Birth and Death. I was not afforded the luxury of death denial. I understood clearly that death was always part of the deal. This perspective impacted my life in a deep soulful way. A way that made me seem odd in the…

  Jade

  November 18, 2019

  death and dying, end of life doula, end of life doula, grief, life, Life coaching, personal development, relationships

  a good death, autonomy in death, death, death and dying, death doula, emotional estate planning, end of life, end of life doula, end of life planning, how can an end of life doula help, positive death movement