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How Men Die Differently

By Drake Baer — 2017

A conversation with Frank Ostaseski, founder of the Zen Hospice Project.

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The Five Stages of Grief

Throughout life, we experience many instances of grief. Grief can be caused by situations, relationships, or even substance abuse.

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Christina Gregory
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Young People Facing End-of-Life Care Decisions

It is extremely difficult for anyone, especially young people in their 20s and 30s, to be told that their treatment(s) haven’t worked. If the cancer you have continues to progress despite treatment, it may be called end-stage cancer.

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National Cancer Institute
2020
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How to Find Meaning in the Face of Death

The time between diagnosis and death presents an opportunity for “extraordinary growth.”

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Emily Esfahani Smith
2017
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Emotions and Coping as You Near the End of Life

This is written for the person with advanced cancer, but it can be helpful to the people who care for, love, and support this person, too.

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American Cancer Society
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What Cancer Takes Away

When I got sick, I warned my friends: Don’t try to make me stop thinking about death.

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Anne Boyer
2019
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What Scares Me About Getting Old

I’ve discovered that growing older hasn’t been a Lego-like replacement of “young” Ken figures with increasingly older versions. Instead, all of these younger selves are still very much alive and thriving, layered and integrated over the years.

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Kenneth Dychtwald
2021
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The Aging Spirit’s Guide

The expert in the spiritual dimensions of aging and dying, Kathleen Dowling Singh, has herself died, in October 2017, in her early 70s, from a “form of cancer,” in her words, that she had not known about, or at least had not told people about.

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John P. Schuster
2018
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Old Age Is Not Guaranteed

Zen training talks a lot about death. But one practitioner found that it doesn’t necessarily prepare you to face your own.

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Natalie Goldberg
2018
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Factors that Increase or Suppress Death Anxiety

Death anxiety encompasses a broad spectrum of emotions ranging from a few passing moments of fear to a complete state of panic.

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Robert Firestone
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Death Anxiety and the Coronavirus

The ultimate tragedy of the human condition is our awareness of our inevitable mortality.

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Robert Firestone
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Death and Dying