A gressroots project to improve end of life care, this film sheds light on the 21st century American struggle with communication and preparation at the end-of-life. Throughout the film, there are intimate accounts of the emotional, spiritual, physical and social burdens associated with the historical shift that has occurred with dying. Forty years ago, most …
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My fiber work focuses on the universal issues of age and mortality. By honoring the framework of aging and seeing death as a natural part of life, my figurative images lift the invisibility that surrounds these subjects. This work starts a dialogue that is essential to our times. Visit Deidre Scherer (Textile Art on Aging …
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The Finding Our Way: Living With Dying in America national newspaper series appeared in more than 160 newspapers, reaching millions of Americans (www.findingourway.net). That series consisted of 15 articles created by a distinguished group of authors and editors, and was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels, and Charitable Leadership …
Growth House Radio is entertainment with a mission: to improve the quality of compassionate care for people who are dying. They offer several different channels with music and easy-listening education features on end-of-life care. You can listen to Growth House Radio while you continue to surf the web. Visit Growth House Radio
A series of three, hour-long audio documentaries designed for national radio broadcast. Distributed by PRI, Public Radio International. This series looks at the care given by doctors, hospitals, clergy, family and friends to people at the end of life. It examines the barriers to good care that arise from cultural misunderstanding, from fear over the …
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Hold Your Breath – A Journey into Cross-Cultural Medicine Film Directed by Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD Check PBS for local broadcasting times in your region. Northern CA KQED and KRCB broadcasting in April, 2007. A lovely and moving meditation on the clash between religion, culture and modern medicine. Produced by Stanford Center for BioMedical Ethics, Program …
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Prior to the 20th century, most Americans prepared their dead for burial with the help of family and friends, but today most funerals are part of a multimillion-dollar industry run by professionals. “A Family Undertaking” explores the growing home-funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of …
A project on viewing death and dying in interdisciplinary perspective. A project of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities UC Berkeley Christina M. Gillis, Ph.D.Project Director. Seeing the Difference is sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, with the generous support of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the Barbro Osher Pro …
A full-service image library providing real-time digital delivery of emotive moments under general and medical categories. A resource for hard-to-find images, and a place to reflect on the face of hope, misfortune, faith, and the miracle we call love. Visit Photo Library, Abraham Menashe Dipping Into Light