Little is needed in the way of introduction when the topic of death is on the table at a Death Discourse. Elders are ready to talk.
Conversations may range from fears about dying to beliefs about life after death, from difficulties in getting loved ones to talk about death with their parents to advance directives and medical-aid-in-dying. All topics are welcome, questions and contributions encouraged.
Regular monthly conversations create community and reduce the sense of isolation people feel as they reflect on mortality.
“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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