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Historias sobre despedidas, lo que sea que eso pueda significar para cada uno de los autores.

Lexi saw him for the first time in the fourth-floor pediatric cancer clinic. He was tall, handsome, and had a full head of dark hair—nothing like the little kids she was used to meeting during her routine hospital visits. No, Ricky was wholly unexpected. He stared at her, mesmerized by her stunning blue eyes. She looked at him carefully, wondering what his motivation for hanging out in a cancer clinic could be. He smiled confidently, unbothered by her bald scalp. Lexi softly returned the smile. Neither of them aware how this moment would entwine them forever.

A diferencia de la vida, la ciencia carece de límites. Los inconmensurables avances de la tecnología médica han prolongado, no siempre para bien, la vida. Cuando privan la desesperanza, el dolor, el sufrimiento y el desasosiego, y se prolonga la muerte por el uso inadecuado de la biomedicina, el ser humano tiene derecho a elegir cuándo y cómo morir. Adueñarse del final es un privilegio. Hacerlo dignifica a la persona, ilumina su historia y enaltece a quienes acompañan al enfermo y caminan a su lado el tramo final.

Het woord euthanasie komt uit het Grieks en betekent goede dood of genadedood. De term kent vanuit de geschiedenis verschillende betekenissen en invullingen. Meestal wordt met euthanasie het volgende bedoeld: het op hun eigen verzoek beëindigen van het leven van patiënten die ondraaglijk en uitzichtloos lijden. In de meeste landen is euthanasie bij wet verboden en wordt het vervolgd als een misdrijf. In enkele landen, waaronder Nederland en België, is euthanasie gelegaliseerd.

With the sudden deaths of both of her parents, Mallory McDuff began to research sustainable practices around death and dying. For McDuff, an educator and environmentalist, what started as a highly personal endeavor expanded into a yearlong exploration and assessment of green burials, aquamation, green cemeteries, home funerals, and human composting. In Our Last Best Act, McDuff bridges the gap between environmental action and religious faith by demonstrating that when the two are combined, they become a powerful force for the greater good

Final Choices is a personal story that discusses an often-avoided topic in families in our society: our own death and dying or that of our loved ones. Whether we want to or not, we all need to prepare for the final moments in our lives. The process of dying and the grief that comes after is something that we need not be blindsided by, but can prepare for.

For those who care for chronically ill children, a new understanding of hope that equips adults to better nurture pediatric hope among sick kids—articulated by the children themselves As anyone with a chronic illness knows, hope can sometimes be hard to come by. For parents and caregivers of...

Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective cultural consciousness. The authors explore the materiality and meaning of the dead body and the living's relationship to it. All the biggest questions facing the planetary human community relate in one way or another to the corpse. Surprisingly, Christian communities are largely missing in the discussion of the dead, having abdicated the historic role in care for the dead to the funeral industry.

While death is a natural event, modern end-of-life experiences are shaped by new medical, demographic, and cultural trends. People who are dying are kept alive, sometimes against their will or the will of their family, with powerful medications, machines, and "heroic measures".

One thing you can count on in life is the fact that you are going to die. How’s that for a buzzkill? Most people diligently ignore the reality of their future demise. Thinking about death somehow seems wrong. Luckily, a real life coroner challenged a few thousand internet strangers to do the thinking for you. The result is a collection of morbid and slightly embarrassing questions all about The End.

In diesem aktuellen und informativen Hörbuch analysiert John Wyatt die Argumente, die für Sterbehilfe und ärztlich assistierten Suizid sprechen und zeigt, wie instabil ihre Grundlagen sind. Stattdessen schlägt Wyatt einen humaneren Weg vor: einen, der sowohl realisierbar ist als auch den Patienten mehr Würde erweist.

His routine was the same every day for 38 years...until March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic shut hospital surgeries all over the world.. Craig Smith, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, went from performing heart surgeries on patients both everyday and celebrated to sitting in his tomb-quiet office looking out at George Washington Bridge. And he started to write. His COVID emails were balm to the staffers and later became celebrated for Dr. Smith’s care and thought in his assessment of the work of the hospital–of any hospital.

Coping with the death of a loved one may feel like an overwhelming and never-ending journey. Your loved one is no longer with you, and you must learn to live without them. However, they will always be in your mind and heart.

Qu’est-ce qu’une expérience de mort imminente ? Comment expliquer ce phénomène ? 10 février 2004. Fabienne Raoul fait un malaise cardiaque sur son lieu de travail et bascule dans un « ailleurs » sans aucune limite. Enveloppée d’une onde d’amour, elle entre en contact avec des êtres lumineux emplis de sagesse. Bouleversée par cette expérience de mort imminente, elle revient métamorphosée.

Durch über 35 Jahre Erfahrungen in der Pflege und Begleitung von Sterbenden und deren Angehörigen erlebte die Autorin viele einschneidende Momente, die sie tief berührten. Im Laufe der Zeit wurde der Tod ihr Freund. Durch ihn erwachte ihr Bewusstsein, dass er auch sie eines Tages besuchen und von dieser Welt mitnehmen wird. Der Schmerz war jahrelang ihr Lehrer und sie machte sich selbst auf den Weg der Vergebung. Schritt für Schritt verstand sie immer mehr, wie wichtig es ist BEWUSST zu LEBEN - JETZT, um eines Tages glücklich zu sterben.

The case for assisted suicide can seem so compelling. Surely it can't be wrong to help desperate people to kill themselves? Don't we have a right to take our own lives in certain circumstances? There are no trite or easy answers. John Wyatt helps us to navigate the arguments with hearts and heads engaged, and above all with our Bibles open. There are practical and compassionate alternatives to assisted suicide, and as many who have gone before us have found, the end of our lives on this earth may turn out to be a strange and wonderful opportunity for growth and internal healing.

So many of us have lost someone or something we love, and have had to deal with the ups and downs of life. In this book, Renée R. Bridgewater shares how to effectively maneuver through the maze of emotions and rekindle your authentic joy, love, and peace of mind to live your life to the fullest.

Bringt uns die Medizin das ewige Leben? Wollen wir das überhaupt? Während die Religion von jeher ein Leben nach dem Tod anbietet, hat die Heilkunde dafür keinen Plan. Deshalb lautet das oberste Gebot der Medizin: Der Tod muss um jeden Preis bekämpft, das Sterben mit allen Mitteln verzögert werden. Die Gesundheitsindustrie dominiert unser Leben von der Zeugung bis zum Tod. Nun erweiterte sie ihr Angebot von der Heilung zum Versprechen der ewigen Instandhaltung.

As late as the 1960s, the Wari' Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest ate the roasted flesh of their dead as an expression of compassion for the deceased and for his or her close relatives. By removing and transforming the corpse, Wari' death rites helped the bereaved kin accept their loss and go on with their lives. Drawing on the recollections of Wari' elders who participated in consuming the dead, this book presents one of the richest, most authoritative ethnographic accounts of funerary cannibalism ever recorded.

Según datos de la OMS, el suicidio es la segunda causa de defunción entre las personas jóvenes, con un total aproximado de 800 000 muertes al año a nivel mundial. Esto lo convierte en uno de los problemas de salud mental más preocupantes del presente, situación que se agrava debido a la creciente desigualdad económica y social, así como a la depresión debida a la pandemia por covid-19.