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Our UPCOMING ISSUE #4 is Easing the Way: Advance Health Care Directives
Here is a brief excerpt from one of our leading articles
Isabel Stenzel Byrnes (along with her twin, Ana, a double-lung transplantee) are featured in the award-winning documentary The Power of Two. Stenzel Byrnes shares her perspective on advance health care directives, as once seen from the deathbed.
Amidst this haze of gasping, I remember my doctor stopping by one day and sitting down on my bed. In a serious tone, she confessed that things weren’t looking too good. I adamantly told her, “I’m NOT dying.” She nodded and said, “Okay.” But then my doctor asked me what I wanted to do, if I continued to decline. Would I want to be placed on a ventilator? Would I want comfort care? My mind was foggy and confused, probably from high carbon dioxide levels. I told her no, I didn’t want to be placed on a ventilator. Cystic Fibrosis patients die on vents, and I didn’t want to die. But then my husband reminded me that years earlier I posted my advanced directive on my refrigerator, and it read, “I would like to be on a ventilator ONLY in cases where lung transplant is a real possibility.” I didn’t want to be on a ventilator, but if it provided a bridge to the chance of a new life, I would.
#3 is on Living with Grieving and healing approaches to grief, including different cultural perspectives on letting our grief flow. Articles include: Altar Therapy, How Tears Are Healing (Tear Cups), Look Back Without Anger: A 9/11 Widow Redefines Her Life, Bringing Him To The Water and more…
#2 is on Greening End of Life and the environmental impact of current end-of-life care practices and our after-death care. NTM talks to one hospital’s sustainability coordinator on how to minimize our carbon footprint when we die.
#1 is on Home Funerals and the movement for family-led, holistic, home-based after-death care. Read about how internationally renowned author, Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher JOANNA MACY cared for her husband Fran Macy with a home funeral.
