Engage With Grace
Last month I had the opportunity to a href=”http://www.engagewithgrace.org/About.aspx#video”watch Alexandra Drane/a announce the a href=”http://www.engagewithgrace.org/”Engage With Grace: The One Slide Project/a at the a href=”http://www.health2con.com/”Health 2.0 Conference/a in San Francisco. The idea behind the project is to get people to share just a href=”http://www.engagewithgrace.org/Download.aspx”ONE slide/a that helps them and their loved ones talk about having a purposeful end-of-life experience.br /br /br /div class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://www.engagewithgrace.org/content/theoneslide.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img src=”http://www.engagewithgrace.org/content/theoneslide.jpg” width=”420″ border=”0″ height=”315″ //a/divbr /Alexandra’s talk personally touched me because my family went through a similar experience 30 years ago when I was 12 years old. My mother died at home with cancer in 1978. She had the opportunity to die at home surrounded by her 5 children because both my dad and uncle were her doctors. In the past and today, not all families are given this important choice. The memories I have of my mother’s final days 30 years ago are still important to me today. As a health care lawyer who has been involved in the legal aspects of end of life decisions expressing your wishes, knowing the wishes of those who you love and legally documenting them are important.br /br /Last […]
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