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Terminal Options for the Irreversibly Ill

My Feb. 5 column, “A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit,” prompted a deluge of information and requests for information on how people too sick to reap meaningful pleasure from life might be able to control their death.

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How to Cultivate Equanimity Regardless of Your Circumstances

A calm mind and even temper can help make peace with life’s difficulties.

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Ann Romney: The Unexpected Treatment that Changed My MS

So much of life happens unexpectedly. For me, one unexpected turn started with a phone call from a friend of a friend who also had multiple sclerosis (MS).

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Life After Cancer: Finding Meaning in the Mundane

I need to slowly add the important things back into my life.

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Hospice Care Linked to Higher Family Satisfaction

Families of terminally ill cancer patients may be more satisfied with the end-of-life treatment their loved ones receive when it involves hospice care, a recent study suggests.

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Feeling Body-Positive When You Have a Disability

As a woman with a physical disability, I am usually glaringly aware of how my body is the polar opposite of what is deemed the norm.

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When Asking for Help Seems Like Too Hard a Task

Asking for help is hard. Really hard. People say they understand that. When someone is brave enough to ask for help when they are in a desperate situation they are congratulated on recognizing they can’t do it on their own. But do people really understand what it takes?

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Can Meditation Get You Through a Health Scare?

Odds are, we’ll all find ourselves, at some time in our life, in the midst of a medical crisis. Or, it may happen to someone we love. Certainly, no one is immune to old age, sickness, and death, but a meditation practice can help us make peace with this reality.

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Have You Listened to Your Self-Talk Lately?

At a retreat in the late 1990s, Buddhist teacher, Mary Orr, told us an eye-opening tale. She was in the middle of a harried day in which she had too much to do and too little time in which to do it.

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The Body Image Lessons I Learned From Illness and Disability

I no longer care about my body being perfect. It’s taken a long time to get here, but I’ve realized my body has been through too much to spend time and energy caring about losing that extra 10 pounds or minimizing my scars.

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