Patients don’t want to hear that they’re dying and doctors don’t want to tell them. But new guidance for the nation’s cancer specialists says they...
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Posted February 8, 2011
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New Age Meets Ancient Tradition: Shiva Connect
Posted January 20, 2011
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A new website called Shiva Connect allows mourners to create a registry with service and burial information; locations and times for sitting...
Read moreJewish Afterlife Talk in East Brunswick
Posted January 17, 2011
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Please join us for a discussion: The Jewish Afterlife Most of us prefer not to contemplate our own mortality. We do, however, like to laugh about...
Read morePro-hospice Statute Falls in Partisan Bickering
Posted January 5, 2011
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The Obama administration, reversing course, will revise a Medicare regulation to delete references to end-of-life planning as part of the annual...
Read moreVon Trapp daughter dies gracefully with the help of hospice care
Posted December 30, 2010
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Agathe von Trapp [pictured above], the eldest daughter of the von Trapp family made famous in “The Sound of Music,” who took exception to the way...
Read morePhysicans Can Get Paid for Discussing End of Life Issues
Posted December 28, 2010
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When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” [it was] dropped it from legislation to...
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