In this TED talk from April 2018, comedienne Emily Levine shares with us her journey to make friends with reality — and peace with death. Life is an enormous gift, Levine says: “You enrich it as best you can, and then you give it back.” Like what you’re reading? Please consider a contribution to keep The MOON shining. Click here to contribute via our secure PayPal link, or here for our Patreon page, […]
Tag Archives | Death | The future we seldom speak of
Audrey Addison Williams | I am dying
I remember a Facebook post several years ago by Eileen Workman that said, and I paraphrase, “Hospice is required to attend to that which is dying.” I am awake at 3:30, praying, reflecting, sending energy to all the world. There is so much grief and loss. Loss of a nation we were proud to identify with, despite her many moral shortcomings. Loss of civility, decency, and human connection. Loss of […]
Margaret DeRitter | Funeral directive from a serial monogamist
Funeral directive from a serial monogamist who never stopped looking for the one who would last Come sit in the front row, darlings. I hope you all can fit. Bring your boxed-up photos, useless house keys, sad CDs. Lay your offerings at my feet. Place your grievances on pure white paper, fold them into mourning doves or cut them into snowflakes and let a blizzard fly. I’ll keep still this […]
A good death | An interview with Griefwalker Stephen Jenkinson
With a master’s degree in theology from Harvard University and a master’s in social work from the University of Toronto, Stephen Jenkinson was the director of counselling services in the palliative care department at a major Canadian hospital in Toronto for several years, where he encountered the deep “death phobia” and “grief illiteracy” that most of his patients and their loved ones brought to their deathbeds. This work motivated Jenkinson […]
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