Re: What is the consolation of faith in the face of death?
What is the consolation of faith in the face of death?
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Faith & Beliefs
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10:25 AM on March 28, 2008
Ira Byock, MD is Director of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire and a Professor of Anesthesiology and Community & Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School.
Dr. Byock has authored numerous articles on the ethics and practice of hospice, palliative and end-of-life care. His first book, Dying Well, (1997) has become a standard in the field. His most recent book, The Four Things That Matter Most, (2004) is used as a counseling tool widely by palliative care and hospice programs, as well as within pastoral care.
Dr. Byock has been a consistent advocate for the voice and rights of dying patients and their families. He has been the recipient of the National Hospice Organization’s Person of the Year (1995), the National Coalition of Cancer Survivorship’s Natalie Davis Spingarn Writers Award (2000), the American College of CHEST Physicians Roger Bone Memorial Lecture Award (2003) and the Outstanding Colleague Award (2008) of the National Association of Catholic Chaplains.
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a nice story re Mr Gravy, but why did he come up with that model? because all of the information he absorbed for years was myth along those lines that's why.
If he'd come up with the dead ancestors model in isolation to everything he'd taken in, in his many years, then you'd be onto something.
warm and fuzzy thoughts are obviously a comfort in times of pain. Does not make it real for a second.
The worms win either way I guess?