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Justin Higginbottom/JPRBirth doulas who help mothers through delivery are well known. But there鈥檚 a growing movement of end-of-life or death doulas. They can be especially helpful for isolated, older residents in rural areas. -
Sophia Prince JPR NewsA cemetery often evokes images of mahogany coffins, ornate headstones and embalmed bodies. That鈥檚 not the case for The Forest Conservation Burial Ground, the first burial ground in Oregon that is completely dedicated to green burials. JPR's Sophia Prince recently took a tour ...
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We all have a beginning and an end. We just don't like to talk about the end of life very much. Katy Butler wrote about facing her father's impending鈥� -
There's no getting around grief. If someone we love dies, we're going to feel it somehow, sooner or later. Ashlander Jack Wiens wanted to provide an鈥� -
A culture like ours that values youth and vitality does not talk easily about death. Which might make death all the more surprising and hard to deal with鈥� -
The care of dying people is often about physical comforts and medical efforts.But music can be part of the closing of life's book as well. 老夫子传媒鈥� -
We don't mind talking about taxes, but death is another matter entirely. Oregon Humanities is determined to break through the resistance, with a series of鈥�
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We get pretty freaked out by death in our culture. Stephen Jenkinson calls this the "wretched anxiety" about the end of life, an anxiety he works to鈥�
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We can barely comprehend the death of a child to disease, even in the abstract.Sukey Forbes had to deal with it as a reality in her own life, when her鈥� -
Did you ever ride in a car with a person who held his or her breath when passing a cemetery? That's just one manifestation of the American difficulty in鈥� -
When we allow ourselves to think about death, we often choose to think about relatively happy circumstances: dying at a ripe old age, at home, in bed,鈥� -
Working with people approaching death is not for everyone. But it is a role hospice nurse Mary Landberg embraces. She has worked for years to ease the鈥�
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Most life events can come in multiples, but we each get one birth and one death.And we prefer to focus on the first, not the second. Which leads to all鈥�
