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  • When a successful doctor stared at cancer death, here’s what he chose to do

    Sanchita Sharma, Hindustan Times, Dec 18, 2016 US-based Indian-American Paul Kalanithi was 15 months away from completing his training as a neurosurgeon at age 36 when he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. The cancer was inoperable, he was going to die. “When Breath Becomes Air” is a memoir that begins with him examiningRead more

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  • What It Feels Like to Die

    Jennie Dear, Sep 9, 2016 – The Atlantic My mother and I sat across from the hospice nurse in my parents’ Colorado home. It was 2005, and my mother had reached the end of treatments for metastatic breast cancer. A month or two earlier, she’d been able to take the dog for daily walks inRead more

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  • The ripple effect of cancer: three families, three different stories

    RN by Victoria Pengilley for Life Matters, 26 Jun 2018. Cancer is a diagnosis no-one wants to hear. What follows is fear, uncertainty and the upheaval of life as you know it. More than 120,000 Australians are diagnosed with cancer each year, and the number is set to rise. Cancer Council Australia predicts one inRead more

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  • The doctors who think it’s become too hard to die

    RN by Anna Kelsey-Sugg for Saturday Extra, 28 Jul 2018. Intensive care specialist Ken Hillman believes it’s become too hard to die. When his grandfather died in 1959, it was in his own room at home, with little medical intervention. “Most people’s grandfathers died at home in those days, because the general practitioner was theRead more

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  • The Compassionate Friends: Understanding and support for grieving parents and families

    ABC Radio Sydney, by Linda Mottram and Matthew Bevan 11 May 2015. How do you talk to the grieving parent of a dead child? There is a “conspiracy of silence” when children die in our society, says a visiting bereavement expert. And we no longer have the time or the understanding of death that enablesRead more

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    • Parenting
  • Some patients in a vegetative state can still communicate

    Tommaso Bruni, 11 October, 2016 Tommaso is a research associate in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College in London, UK. He is interested in the ethics of clinical research, the ethics of neuroscience, and bioethics. Published in association with The London Health and Society Hub, an Aeon Partner John Smith,Read more

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  • Palliative care transforming lives of those with life-limiting illnesses

    By Eliza Laschon , 22 May 2016, 11:07am Perth woman Cait Calcutt had a limited understanding of palliative care until the day she reached out to a service which transformed her family’s life. Ms Calcutt’s partner Nigel Livesey was in his early 40s when he was diagnosed with three chronic, life-limiting diseases. For nine yearsRead more

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  • Memento Mori

    By David Malham New York Times, March 11, 2015 I would not have chosen A.L.S. at the Pick Your Disease store, but there are worse things that can happen and worse ways for a life to end. The very fact that it was happening to me and not to my family was itself a relief.Read more

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  • Keeping therapies “complementary”, not “alternative”

    Authored by  Jane McCredie, 30 July 2018 IN 2013, a 21-year-old Spanish physics student, Mario Rodríguez, died of leukaemia after refusing a second round of chemotherapy in favour of “natural” remedies recommended by his homeopath. In the wake of his son’s death, Mario’s grieving father, Julián Rodríguez, launched a legal action against the homeopath forRead more

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    • Life Threatening Illness
  • High number of terminal patients unnecessarily treated, study finds

    By James Bullen, ABC, 29 Jun 2016 Doctors have called for the public to discuss end of life care with their loved ones after a study revealed one third of elderly patients with advanced or terminal illnesses receive unnecessary treatment in the last six months of their lives. The global analysis of 38 studies ofRead more

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  • Tips for Separated Parents January 13, 2019
  • Boredom is not the enemy. Here’s how to make it work for you ABC Science January 5, 2019
  • Instant gratification behind teen anxiety epidemic, but parents can help January 5, 2019
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  • Anxiety has a cost, but can also be a power for good ABC Health & Wellbeing January 4, 2019
  • Death doulas explain why everyone should have an end-of-life plan January 4, 2019
  • A video of a tradie helping out an elderly man has gone viral, clocking more than 20,000 hits January 4, 2019
  • Keeping therapies “complementary”, not “alternative” January 4, 2019
  • Parents can promote gender equality and help prevent violence against women. Here’s how January 4, 2019
  • The doctors who think it’s become too hard to die January 4, 2019
  • Sex workers offer intimacy and connection for disabled clients in the age of the dating app January 4, 2019
  • The digital detox is on the rise — and it’s good news for Australia January 4, 2019
  • Why getting motivated is hard (and how to do it anyway) ABC Health & Wellbeing January 4, 2019
  • Antidepressants provoke extremes of debate January 4, 2019
  • Dry July: What you might learn from a month without booze ABC Health & Wellbeing January 4, 2019
  • The ripple effect of cancer: three families, three different stories January 4, 2019
  • The Compassionate Friends: Understanding and support for grieving parents and families January 4, 2019
  • Preparing children for the death of a parent is a confronting but important experience January 4, 2019
  • Chris Martin began Just a Dad blog after losing wife but sharing grief becomes an inspiration January 4, 2019
  • Why mothers of tweens – not babies – are the most depressed January 4, 2019
  • Five myths about marriage January 4, 2019
  • The difference between great minds and small minds January 4, 2019

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