Tag: death
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On anticipatory grief, and the things we carry at the crossroads
There comes a time when the road ends.
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2024 in Books: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End – Atul Gawande
Like life and death, and all the hard conversations in between, this book is for everyone.
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from womb to tomb (and the before, during and after of compassionate care)
Also known as my two months in urban community then palliative care.
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Words I carry (to read when I’m sober)
A peril of going through the internet; you change. It rattles around the head.
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To Tita Beng
Thank you, Ninang Beng.
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For heaven
I love you
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Book Review: When Breath Becomes Air (2016)
Ann Patchett calls this book “a universal donor –I would recommend it to anyone, everyone”. I agree.
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Take the wings of morning,
That I will become the executioner for the lives of the living, the dying, and still the dead. These are the things medical school also teaches.
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I’ve known many people now lost to the sea Not unvigilant, or unskilled But human. and as such inherently weak to this force of nature
jari m 