Comments on: How Life Stories Can Benefit The Dying.

By: Delmeza Hospice care for Children

Delmeza Hospice care for Children — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:25:04 +0000

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By: Dan Curtis

Dan Curtis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:00:05 +0000

@Ian Campbell Sexton. Thank you for watching Island 30 and your comments. It’s a privilege to work with people to enable them to tell their stories. I’m glad that you have some interest in this work. Drop me an e-mail if you’d like more information. Thanks.

By: Ian Campbell Sexton

Ian Campbell Sexton — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:50:41 +0000

Dan, Saw you today on Island 30. I have 2 reasons for contacting you. The 1st: I’ve always wanted to interact with moribund patients in hospices. I’m a young 67 whose philosophy is: Talk to people, you always learn something. I collect the Toronto Star Weekly and most people over 65 and having lived in Canada usually remember it fondly. If you go to my YouTube site you’ll get to know me better. Keep Smiling!

By: Dan Curtis

Dan Curtis — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:20:58 +0000

@Digital Dame. Thanks for your comments. What you say is so true.

By: Digital Dame

Digital Dame — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:51:54 +0000

This is wonderful. So often by the time people reach the stage where they need constant care, they feel their lives are nothing but a burden to those around them.

By: Dan Curtis

Dan Curtis — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:57:59 +0000

@Pattie. Thanks for dropping by and your comments. I agree that there is a good deal of denial about our inevitable death. Facing it clear-eyed is the best way to lessen our fear of death.

By: Pattie

Pattie — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:39:10 +0000

Thanks, Dan, you have laid out the therapeutic benefits clearly and succinctly. Thank you, too, for referring openly to death.

I am troubled that we appear to be less and less willing to acknowledge honestly this natural and inevitable stage of life – everyone in the obits has “passed away,” “passed on,” just plain “passed,” or “gone to meet” somebody or other. It seems nobody dies any more; except, of course, we all do.

Your post reinforces the understanding that we live until we take our last breath, and provides support for an open conversation about an approaching death.