“When my financial planner sat with my daughter and me, he said, ‘let’s talk about what needs to happen when your mother dies.'”
“Once the conversation was over and my daughter had gone home, I realized how up to that point, how lonely and alone I had felt, unable to discuss my death with my own daughter.”
The ability to talk openly and without reservation about death adds new dimensions to life. Even as younger people seem unwilling to discuss death, older adults are hungry to talk.
“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
I set up the camera and let it roll. In her kitchen. In rural Iowa. August, 1993. Over the next two hours my eighty-four-year-old friend, without hesitation, without probing, without concern, spoke…about her itinerant life and the struggles of share-cropping,
Fanny Out of the corner of my eye, as I passed her room in the health center, I caught a glimpse of Fanny staring blankly at the wall. She attended chapel every Sunday, but she had been missing that day.
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