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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Oct 20, 2023 ^^
Rating : 5 (0/8 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2023-10-21T18:22:32.568855Z
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I have a friend whose husband died 18 months ago. Her denial following his catastrophic of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer resulted in a completed meltdown and it continues to this day. Her mental and thinking capacities are severely impaired and my "observation" has been a sobering one. At 71 years old, I find dinner conversations with others my age and older amazing. Almost TO A PERSON the phobia about death is unsettling. No one will speak honestly and it has left me feeling very alone is pursuing my personal relationship to death AND life. Stephen's interviews have filled in a vacant spot in these discussions and I am thankful for his look-life/death-in-the-eye approach. Bravo!
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Thank you so much, Mark, for this very well conducted talk with Stephen.
I deeply savour Stephen's thinkings and wordings.
Ongoingly compromised indeed.
Real village would make sure that everyone has a roof over their heads (remember Muammar Gadhafi...), irrespective of how "good" a little cog you are in the present monetary, calculated murder -etc system.
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 🌳🕊💚
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Brilliant, thanks so much! I remember attending a meditation in Rochester years ago on death. It was a trip, but stayed with me as a practice that helps me right-size my life, not take myself so seriously, and hold my space...it brings a bit of fearlessness with it...getting right with the notion that you I will die....(we imagined crows picking out our corpse's eyes....wow). It sounds macabre, but Buddhism would say, why? It's natural....and un-natural to our egoic state. Appreciate your content and looking forward to starting your training course:rocket-red-countdown-liftoff:
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Thank you for this. My dad was given a terminal diagnosis recently & we’re having very open & difficult conversations.
I’ve been doing a lot of reflection & thought we only do 2 things- dead or dying; we don’t have to think about anything if we do ‘dead’ but ‘dying’ is a process that we seem to ignore & yet what are we doing each day, living or dying & is it just a difference of perspective?
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What did he say a good death is? So unclear. A bad death, if I undestand him, is one that is resisted strongly with medicine, and mentally ignored as much as possible, and the final dying process relatively qucik and painless (and painkillers). This he considers a bad death, while many people consider it not a bad death (as far as deaths goes). Or? Also what did he say that he likes about Western culture?
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@pchabanowich
3 weeks ago
The ancient Hindu story of a boy, who, at the death of his father, resolves to visit Hades and seek understanding from the Lord Of Death himself, has moved me for years. It is a balm for the heart in the midst of sorrow... Your presence and work are a huge gift to the world.💐
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