End-of-Life/Mourning/Funeral Doula, Colorado Springs

02/08/2020

Without realizing it, many of us make it harder than it must be

10/31/2019

In this remote Swiss town, residents spent a lifetime aging a wheel for their own funeral.

10/11/2019

The change that took place the day my father died.

09/05/2019

I want to respect her wishes, but I feel hurt and confused by her request.

09/02/2019

The news brings residents of Robles Park Village to tears. The place where they live was built on the site of long-forgotten Zion Cemetery.

06/15/2019

By BOB SHAW In the dimly lit room, Mark Quinlan struggles to be heard. His voice box has been silenced by his thyroid cancer. He tries to whisper, but the hum of his oxygen machine drowns out the s…

01/14/2019

When moonlit nights or misty mornings work their magic, some older cemeteries in parts of Tennessee could pass for Civil War encampments. Unusual

12/27/2018

End-of-life doulas provide a new type of caregiving to patients and families, including vigil planning, legacy projects and comfort through massage and guided visualizations.

12/20/2018

“No more, ‘I’m going to save that for a special occasion.’ Anything you have, use it up.”

12/15/2018

The Archdiocese of Detroit apologized for the priest's behavior.

12/13/2018

12/07/2018

La Mu**ta by Pablo Neruda

No, you must forgive me.

If you are not alive; if you, beloved, my love, if you have died,
All the leaves will fall on my breast, my darling;
It will rain upon my soul night and day and the snow will burn my heart,
I shall walk through cold, and fire, and death, and snow;
My feet will want to march toward where you are sleeping,
but I must go on, because you wanted me to be, above all things, indomitable,
and, my love, because you know that I am not just one man but all men.