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		<title>Culturally appropriate condolence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Watson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bereavement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funerals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talk about death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our world has changed so much: we are all multicultural now, with all the richness and confusion that creates. One area where this creates a challenge is when it comes to making response around a death. Co-worker, family connection, fellow student: we may be uncertain what is culturally appropriate when encountering the death of someone <a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/03/culturally-appropriate-condolence/.html' class='excerpt-more'>Read more . . .</a>
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<li><a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2011/10/flowers-in-sympathy-a-common-condolence-gift/.html' rel='bookmark' title='Flowers in sympathy: A common condolence gift'>Flowers in sympathy: A common condolence gift</a></li>
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		<title>Spirituality and Palliative Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Watson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death and spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facing Death book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Related posts: Spirituality and palliative care nursing VIDEO Spirituality and the health professional Spirituality and healing at the end of life
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<li><a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/03/spirituality-and-the-health-professional/.html' rel='bookmark' title='Spirituality and the health professional'>Spirituality and the health professional</a></li>
<li><a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/spirituality-and-healing-at-the-end-of-life/.html' rel='bookmark' title='Spirituality and healing at the end of life'>Spirituality and healing at the end of life</a></li>
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		<title>Spirituality and the health professional</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Watson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death and spirituality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 2006 study (Steinhauser, et al) sought a “practical, evidence-based approach to discussing spiritual concerns in [the context of] a physician-patient relationship.” The issue is a critical one in relationship to end of life care. Even the World Health Organization insists that appropriate palliative care “integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care.” Caring <a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/03/spirituality-and-the-health-professional/.html' class='excerpt-more'>Read more . . .</a>
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<li><a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/spirituality-and-healing-at-the-end-of-life/.html' rel='bookmark' title='Spirituality and healing at the end of life'>Spirituality and healing at the end of life</a></li>
<li><a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2011/06/spirituality-and-palliative-care-nursing-video/.html' rel='bookmark' title='Spirituality and palliative care nursing VIDEO'>Spirituality and palliative care nursing VIDEO</a></li>
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		<title>Spirituality and healing at the end of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Watson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death and spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[For the dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preparing for death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end of life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe in healing and I believe in healing at the end of life. I have personally experienced healing in relationships, in terms of my sense of myself. Emotional healing, relational healing, psychological healing: all these partake of the spiritual insofar as they relate to the meaning we make and the meaning we find in <a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/spirituality-and-healing-at-the-end-of-life/.html' class='excerpt-more'>Read more . . .</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual needs in the face of death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do people with advanced cancer, congestive heart failure and end stage renal disease have in common? According to researchers, they all testify to the importance of emotional and spiritual issues when facing the end of life: not surprising for many of us. What is interesting is that people said this kind of thing whether <a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/spiritual-needs-in-the-face-of-death/.html' class='excerpt-more'>Read more . . .</a>
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<li><a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/what-does-death-mean/.html' rel='bookmark' title='What does death mean?'>What does death mean?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2011/06/hope-in-the-face-of-death-part-one/.html' rel='bookmark' title='Hope in the face of death: Part One'>Hope in the face of death: Part One</a></li>
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		<title>A Complicated Grief</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/a-complicated-grief/.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Watson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bereavement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funerals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feelings]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutdeath.net/?p=1265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a clergy friend who was once contacted by a funeral home to do a funeral for a man he had never met. He agreed and proceeded to contact the widow and to arrange a funeral-planning session with her and any other close family. As was his custom (mine, too, when planning a funeral), <a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/a-complicated-grief/.html' class='excerpt-more'>Read more . . .</a>
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<li><a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2011/08/suffering-grief-and-loss/.html' rel='bookmark' title='Suffering, grief and loss'>Suffering, grief and loss</a></li>
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		<title>Making a decision about CPR: PART TWO</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/making-a-decision-about-cpr-part-two/.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Watson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Caregiver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[For the dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How death happens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Contributor: Viki Kind 4.  Think about the kind of death you are choosing. With CPR, you might not have the opportunity for a peaceful and profound death experience. When you picture the last minutes of your loved one’s life, do you see strangers straddling the patient on a bed, pushing on the patient’s chest, <a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/making-a-decision-about-cpr-part-two/.html' class='excerpt-more'>Read more . . .</a>
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		<title>Making a decision about CPR: Part One</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/making-a-decision-about-cpr-part-one/.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Contributor: Viki Kind CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation used to be very simple to understand. Cardio stands for heart, pulmonary stands for lungs and resuscitation means to revive from death. When a patient died, someone would push on the person’s chest to try to restart the heart while giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to help the person <a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/making-a-decision-about-cpr-part-one/.html' class='excerpt-more'>Read more . . .</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What does death mean?</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/what-does-death-mean/.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was diagnosed with cancer—years ago now, I am happy to report—I faced an inner crisis of meaning. Sitting on the front step alone at 2:00 am, I realized with a profound shock that the cancer didn’t MEAN anything. It didn’t mean I was good or that I was bad. It didn’t mean my <a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/02/what-does-death-mean/.html' class='excerpt-more'>Read more . . .</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Protect your loved ones: Make a will</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/01/protect-your-loved-ones-make-a-will/.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Watson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was a very savvy, determined woman who had been a medical professional and served on a variety of boards and committees. We’ll call her Joan. Yet, for all her intelligence and savvy, as Joan lay near death in a palliative care ward after battling cancer for 11 years, with a house in her name <a href='http://talkaboutdeath.net/2012/01/protect-your-loved-ones-make-a-will/.html' class='excerpt-more'>Read more . . .</a>]]></description>
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