Final wishes

This is a great story about final wishes. To read more click the link:
7 powerful photographs of terminally ill people living out their final wishes

Death and modern life

"Each year around 50,000 people die in New York, some alone and unseen. Ronald Rodriguez, who investigates such deaths, says: 'I try to build a life like it’s the last day. You never know when you will die. Before this, I went along like I would live forever.'"Click on the link to read  The Lonely Death of George Bell

An amazing conversation about grief between amazing men

Luminous at the end

UCC minister Anthony B. Robinson tells the story of his sister's last 40 days in this moving article from The Christian Century: Luminous at the end

The musings of a young man on mortality and the passage of time

Don't waste your precious time living someone else's life

Sometimes it feels just like this

Taking back death care responsibilities can help us accept death

In his TEDx Talk, Caleb Wilde, a 6th generation funeral director, says, "The North American leap from a culture of healthy death acceptance to a culture of death denial has been no leap at all. It’s been a journey of small steps. And this journey has, in part, been enabled by both the professionalization of death and the funeral industry. In this talk, I explore options that help us pursue death acceptance by taking back death care responsibilities."

The art of living every minute of your life

The days are long, but the years are short

How will you spend your precious time?