Thursday, January 26, 2012

How Do You Relate to Death?

Somewhere along the way I ran across a group called Sacred Dying and I have friended them on Facebook. They have a web site at http://www.sacreddying.org/ but I usually just follow them on FB. Today they have link to a wonderful article which begins a series of articles in the Huffington Post called:

The Death and Dying Series Part One: How Do You Relate to Death?

There is an interesting series of questions at the end for you to think about.

Things are stable here. Stu and I both notice a decline in his stamina but we are still able to go out and eat and enjoy each others company. His daughter Sarah and her husband Ed are coming in this weekend for a visit. It will be nice to have them both here.

Peace.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Denial of future

I read a GREAT article in AARP magazine by Richard Cohen. He is married to Meredith Vieira. Richard was diagnosed at age 25 with multiple sclerosis.

One of the many things in Richard's article was talking about his favorite coping mechanism being denial - not necessarily of his present condition but of his future...but why lose a good today over the chance of a bad tomorrow. He denies the certainty of possible outcomes...It really frees you up.

This sums up how Stu and I are trying to live. We don't deny that he has lung cancer but we try to enjoy each day and not worry about the possibility of a bad tomorrow.