PREPARE FOR A GOOD END OF LIFE, LET'S TALK ABOUT DYING, WHICH IS ME?

Was feeling morbid yesterday so I listened to a couple of TED talks about death:

PREPARE FOR A GOOD END OF LIFE is an interesting TED presentation by Judy MacDonald Johnston.  Judy shares what she learned from her friends’ successful approach to the end of life, and outlines five practices, with worksheets to help you to prepare for your end of life. 

Click on five practices (above) to see her worksheets.  Click HERE for her 6 minute talk.

LET'S TALK ABOUT DYING was another talk on the same subject.  Over the past 35 years Dr. Peter Saul has been intimately involved in the dying process for over 4,000 patients. He is passionate about improving the ways we die.

"We can’t control if we’ll die, but we can “occupy death,” says Saul. He calls on us to make clear our preferences for end of life care -- and suggests two questions for starting the conversation. Click HERE.       (Philippians 1:21)       

To prepare for death, it might be a good idea to answer this question:

WHICH IS ME? - Within my earthly temple there's a crowd; there's one of us that's humble, one that's proud.  There's one that's broken-hearted for his sins, there's one that unrepentant and sits and grins. There's one that loves his neighbor as himself, and one that cares but fame and self. From such corroding care I should be free, if I should determine which is me!    Edward Sanford Martin