End Of Life & Death and Dying

The pandemic took my business, but my interest continues.

[Imogen Jones @Imogensjones]

Death scholars: I am looking for references/evidence re the (historical and contemporary) gender composition of death workers (thinking funeral directors, morticians, mortuary technicians and so on). Anyone know of anything? @cendeathsociety @asds_death @DeathCultureNet

[Kathryn Mannix @drkathrynmannix]

What a labour of love by @ICUsteps.
'End of Life in Intensive Care' is an information resource for family & friends when an ICU patient is so sick that they might die.
The website is written in user-friendly language, & includes a downloadable pdf.
https://t.co/za5wHJwWgP
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[WesElyMD @WesElyMD]

Withdrawal of “Care” ⁉️

Heard on rounds:
“Let’s ask the family about withdrawal of care.”

NO. We never withdraw care.

In keeping w a patients goals & wishes, we often withdraw life-support devices toward comfort measures but never our care.

Link: https://t.co/ImaxndpAj4

[Jonathan Bartels RN 🌊 @JonathanBarte17]

@WesElyMD ‘Compassionate withdrawal of life sustaining measures ‘
‘Transition of care from life sustaining to a total comfort focused care and natural death’ …
Never withdrawal of care… yuck!

[End Of Life & Death and Dying @EOLdd]

Journalling to process can be helpful.

(I'm not sure whether that's what this was meant to be, but it seems like a good example.)

#creativity #grief

[End Of Life & Death and Dying @EOLdd]

When the #music you hear on hold digs a painful groove in your mind. This is what one #hospital did to avoid having patients' family members triggered later.

https://t.co/enio3zpQj7

[End Of Life & Death and Dying @EOLdd]

@DeathMidwyfe @CompanioningGS @PetGrief @PetEndofLife @homefunerals Thank you, Angie. I'm glad to finally be able to attribute that perfect line, so often used in some circles.

And now that I think of it, you were in the room when I met Nora. #PWR15 #SLC I hope you are well.

[End Of Life & Death and Dying @EOLdd]

Nora Cedarwind Young encouraged many to help people and families face aging, serious illness, and the dying process.

She mentored me in turning my decades of experience in these areas into Companioning Care LLC to provide these services.

In gratitude.

https://t.co/iNHWAWG6QD

[End Of Life & Death and Dying @EOLdd]

"A meditation of death and the mourning process through the eyes of a wildlife researcher..."

[Rogue Detection Teams @roguedetection]

2 yrs in the making, we're excited to share this #TeaserTrailer about our work in wildlife. "Flightpath" is a short documentary film by @artifactla & features #ConservationDogs Lady & Ptero! It's premiereing at @Amdocfilmfest in Palm Springs 3/30! 🍿🐾🎥

https://t.co/ZfZboGAHst

[Shreya P. Trivedi MD, MHPE @ShreyaTrivediMD]

For some #humility 🙏🏽

[End Of Life & Death and Dying @EOLdd]

More about about #death and #family than brassicas.

Thread.

#funerals

[Jenks @TheLostBride]

Trigger warning: death, family, brassicas.

I might get into family trouble with this, but when my mother died, she had a cabbage on the top of her coffin. I've never known pressure like it, four pallbearers carrying a coffin, while trying to keep a free-rolling ball on top.

[End Of Life & Death and Dying @EOLdd]

https://t.co/TDb2OCAGEE

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

If we get universal health care and my taxes end up going for other people's health care ...

I won't care at all because my premiums already pay even more for other people's health care plus a insurance executive's yacht.

[Susan J. Tweit @susanjtweit]

almost translucent
sego lily petals crumple
silky in death
We celebrate birth and beginnings, & not endings & death. Yet there is great beauty & wisdom in life’s endings. What if we honored dying as we do living? Would we live more fully if we lost our fear of aging and death?

[Two Winters Woods @2WintersWoods]

This old tree
I stood under it when I was a small boy in the 1950s
I stood under it today
One of us will outlast the other
I hope it's the tree

[OrderoftheGoodDeath @OrderGoodDeath]

1. Tomorrow is #EarthDay so we’ll be doing a Green Death Week - highlighting sustainable death care options like green burial & human composting, debunking myths, answering questions, giving you resources on everything from how to green your funeral

[Susan J. Tweit @susanjtweit]

OMG! Bless the Birds won the Sarton Award for Memoir from Story Circle Network! Thank you, @shewritespress and @brooke_warner for believing in Bless the Birds, and the Mesa Refuge and @WISCAMH for writing residencies. And to all who followed the journey!
https://t.co/JCBiRO5FCM

[End Of Life & Death and Dying @EOLdd]

@paula_span @NYTHealth Bummer.

Thank you for all your helpful pieces over the years!

[When You Die @whenyoudie_org]

Giving someone a final send-off doesn't have to be elaborate or lavish, as long as it is meaningful to the person and those they've left behind. It can be as simple as this.
"Wrapped in their favorite quilt, one final embrace"

[The Green Funeral Company @FuneralGreen]

High Tide