Amanda Coolong

What being around death taught this hospital chaplain about life J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a person is dying, and how to reckon with uncomfortable feelings about death.

J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a person is dying, and how to reckon with uncomfortable feelings about death.

How we peacefully protest in the western Maine mountains. #NoKings

Women sue Kansas over law that disregards end-of-life wishes during pregnancy Three women and two physicians in Kansas are suing the state over its law that invalidates the advance directives of pregnant patients.

Three women and two doctors are suing Kansas over a law that nullifies a person’s decisions about end-of-life care if they are pregnant, arguing that it violates the right to personal autonomy and equal protection under the state constitution.

Ah, the sounds that hearken Spring. 💜

#seasons #spring

How do you tend to describe the difference between grief and mourning? What seems to resonate the most in your explanation?

#death #deathsky #grief #mourning

Remembering poet Walt Whitman, who died on this day in 1892.

#deathsky #griefsky

#griefsky #deathsky

Re: “moving on” after a loved one dies.

We tend to translate it as moving on from the person we love. But let me offer a reframe.

Perhaps it can be moving on from the PAIN of their passing; giving yourself permission to move THROUGH your feelings.

You carry your loved one with you.

#deathsky

How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging The best end-to-end encrypted messaging app has a host of security features. Here are the ones you should care about.

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[Free Resource] for promoting modern funeral practices. Thx, @deadgoodlegacies.bsky.social

#deathsky

An ambulance parked in front of an Accident and Emergency department, with a text overlay stating, "We work with hospitals so people with a terminal illness can be cared for out of hospital. @mariecurieuk.

💬 Did you know our Responsive Emergency Assessment and Community Team (REACT) service aims to help keep patients with a terminal diagnosis out of hospital?

The scheme was set up after data showed that end-of-life patients spent an average of a month in hospital in the last year of their life. 💔

Finding meaning in people’s first words—and their last Why there is less significance than society would have you believe

"A book ending with so much death may sound like a hard read. Instead, it is a beautiful and even strangely comforting one, with @michaelerard.bsky.social as a pensive, patient guide."

An @economist.com review of "Bye Bye I Love You":

YouTube video by OWN Dr. Maya Angelou on Loving and Letting Go | Belief | Oprah Winfrey Network

This Sunday, I invite you to contemplate the late, great Dr. Maya Angelou’s words on how love liberates.

#deathsky #deathdoula #grief

“Everything we can save is worth saving.”
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS Bon Iver · SABLE, · Song · 2024

Damn…the new Bon Iver song “Things behind things behind things” just broke me open.

#musicsky #boniver #lyricalpoetry

Standing on the bare ground, – my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, – all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, – no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair.

Stephen is the philosopher for our time. It took me forever to get through Die Wise. Every page broke me into a million shards.

Sanity & Soul: Die Wise, Ten Years On - 5 part online event - Orphan Wisdom Join our 5-part online event to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Die Wise, A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul “Dying wise is a moral obligation. Dying well is not […]

It’s hard to imagine it has already been a decade since Stephen Jenkinson launched his seminal work on the #death trade, Die Wise. In celebration of this movement, he is offering a 2-day online event. Register today for a $100USD discount.

#deathsky #deathwalker #diewise #palliativecare #EOLD

Expansion, not contraction.

Mindfulness of #death and one’s own mortality is a beautiful practice toward presence.

Art: M.C. Escher “Eye” 1946

I just discovered Jon Carling’s art. Here’s my favorite piece thus far.

#artsky

two snowdrops.

In Welsh folklore, snowdrops and their white shroud-like petals symbolized death... #FolkloreThursday 📷Jane Mucklow

Sometimes life is just incredibly tragic.

You don't need an inspirational quote.

You just need to feel.
Be angry.
Grieve.
Cry.

You can find the deeper meaning and growth opportunity later.

First, be human.

The Last Ecstatic Days Ethan Sisser, a young man with terminal brain cancer, sits alone in his hospital room. When he starts livestreaming his death journey on social media, thousands of people around the world join to cele...

The Last Ecstatic Days - a touching documentary about a young man who teaches us how to approach death in community and without fear.

#deathsky #grief #endoflife

Grief belongs in our life. We should be trying to learn it as a skill and not, as is so often the case, trying to get through it or over it.

TL;DR
A tool for thought; the power of metaphorical speech.

#Speech #Language #Metaphor

Today’s morning meditation.

Green, white, and black text on a gray background reads: Executor Must-Haves. Settling your parents' estate? Carry these documents with you to every meeting. Death certificates, copy of the will, social security numbers, estate banking info, most recent tax return. deadparentswhatnow.com

As executor of your parents' estate, you never know what documents you'll be expected to produce on the fly. Best to carry these with you to every meeting, from lawyers to bankers to the DMV.
#checklist #deathpositive #executor #estateplanning #willsandtrusts

I’m here for you both. ❤️‍🩹