Essential Arrangements

Plus it is a wonderful gift to your family! Consider having them "take" a sentimental item from your home as their gift to you this holiday season!

Why Downsizing Your Life May be a Key to Happiness After 60 - Dr. Dale Atkins Interview Let’s face it. Over the decades, we accumulate a lot of stuff. Then, as we get older, our priorities and interests change. After carrying clothes, books, travel souvenirs and school projects around for years, it all gets a little tiring. The memories are wonderful, but, in our 60s and 70s, for man...

So true...don't put off a most important plan....

Planning for death must happen long before the last few days of life In the final days of life, it may be too late to choose how you want to die, who you want to be cared by, and how you'd like your symptoms managed.

We should make talking about death more acceptable, take away the fear...it is a reality!

Why an ICU doctor says death ed is as essential as s*x ed in high school | CBC Radio Teens already learn s*x ed in school, so why not death ed too? The Current speaks to a palliative care doctor who says high school students should be taught about death and dying.

Pre-planning is so important...and what a gift to your loved ones! Save them the time, the struggle and the legal fees by having your estate in order!

Don't avoid planning your death. John McCain and Aretha Franklin showed us why it matters. John McCain had a plan for his final months and funeral. Aretha Franklin didn't, and the result made her family unhappy. We should all learn from this.

Interesting read...

The Dangerous Myth of a Good Death - SevenPonds Blog Learn about why our understanding of what constitutes a Good Death may increase the suffering of those who are dying as well as our own.

Today I was honored to lead a group of nine people in a discussion about death and dying. We spoke about cultural fears about death and ultimately how liberating it is to TALK about DEATH! 💀 After all, we’re all going to die right?

Personally journeying with a cancer diagnosis and being surrounded by many others with cancer I feel like I’m surrounded by death. Please don’t misunderstand, I believe in LIFE and choose life and joy again and again but accepting one’s death is paramount to TRULY LIVING and appreciating LIFE! Accepting ones death is a beautiful thing and is something that can bring great peace. Why resist the inevitable?

So grateful to be a part of Full Circle Living & Dying Collective in Grass Valley!

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Watch for your new Medicare card in the mail....

Today, CMS announced the mailing of new Medicare cards to beneficiaries in Wave 3 states, including Kansas.

The new cards are coming now. Be sure to check your mail and do not throw your new Medicare card away. Here’s what the envelope will look like.

Coffin Club Coffin Club UK is based on a model that has successfully run in New Zealand for a number of years. It is for elderly people, people who are terminally ill, or the people who care for those people (or, indeed, anyone else who fancies it!) to come and work out their funeral wish-list, plan, and cost,....

7 Mistakes People Make Handling Deceased Family Members' Estates There are so many mistakes people make handling the estate of their deceased family members. Here's how to avoid those mistakes.