Advanced Decisions
What are they? Are they binding? Who can make one? Do I need advice? There are many questions about advanced decisions that make them difficult to understand what they do and what [...]
DNR – What does it mean?
DNR stands for “do not resuscitate”, which is an end of life decision, but is limited to CPR, which are chest compression and having the heart re-started. This is not the only [...]
The shock of rapid decline
We all know that death is coming, even though most of us don’t like to think about it that much. We just don’t know when and how and so we live our [...]
Grief for the dying
A friend of mine that I hadn’t seen for a while told me why she had been so withdrawn, her father was dying. The way that she described it made me think [...]
I think that my loved one is afraid to die
I have heard this a lot recently. Families see their loved ones in a very frail and unwell state and believe that dying would end their misery, but they aren’t dying. And [...]
Death, Dying, Compassion, information and the 3 questions
Eventually death will come for each of us, its inevitability is well understood! Death and dying are often very difficult subjects for people to talk about, there is a deep sense of [...]