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The story of a 31 year old mother with kidney cancer who fought death and was ripped from life. This chapter reaches your soul and your heart to help you begin to understand the meaning of unbearable and uncontrollable pain and the conflict that arises in trying to reach comfort.

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...A little boy with no childhood or future was suffering and dying from something totally beyond anyone's control. But his own and his family's suffering and devastation shrank compared with the joy and growth he engendered. While Michael's illness and dying were tragic, they were not only tragic. What we experienced was far greater and far richer than sorrow alone.

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Writing A Personal Script for Dying

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The Hardest Decisions and the Greatest Opportunities

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The Hardest Decisions and the Greatest Opportunities

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The Hardest Decisions and the Greatest Opportunities

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Finding treasures and value in the dementia patient

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Dr. Byock counsels Julia on thinking on herself as being loved, learning to love and forgive, and the hospice staff teach family to contribute to a peaceful end.

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Julia is in the nursing home, recounting days of sacrifice is not done by her but by the people she helped along the way. Will she be able to go within and find "herself"?

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Mayor Burke finds dignity

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The Mayor

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The journey of Douglas Kearney continues as he goes from rage to a different king of understanding. Join me on spiritualityofdyingwell.blogspot.com to comment on this chapter.

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The Kearneys journey intensifies

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The story of man dealing with anger

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Dying well: The story of Anne Marie Wilson as she is diagnosed with cancer and the beginning of the relationship that had ended years ago with her sister.

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In chapter two of our discussion on the Dying Well episodes, Dr. Byock has lived through the questions and answers that drive us to review our personal mission in life. He began noticing that in the health care social circle, a dying person was looked upon as somewhat undignified. Death was a problem reviewed and documented in rounds. Heroic measures for saving life became little more than a script for medical staff to follow with knowingness of exact outcomes and those outcomes did not equal life. This chapter is the introduction period for Dr. Byock to the hospice world. Read more at: http://spiritualityofdyingwell.blogspot.com/

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The continuation of the chapter "Teaching About Living - Teaching About Dying". This chapter addresses the events involving the author and his father.

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Teaching about living; Teaching about dying - Seymour Byock This is one of the most heartfelt chapters to review because it revolves around the father of the author. Depending on discussions, this chapter may take more than one episode.

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Introduction to the "Dying Well" series of talkcasts. Comments made be made on my blog at http://spiritualityofdyingwell.blogspot.com/

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