Death & Dying
Western culture largely turns a blind eye to death and the dying process. Many of us harbour feelings of fear around the mere thought of dying and on a social level, it’s largely considered negative or macabre to want to discuss it openly with others. As such, many of us feel completely out of our depth or alone when we facing death.
Whether you have endured the loss of a loved one, received a terminal diagnosis yourself or are coping with serious ongoing medical conditions it is entirely expected and understandable that you would want to explore your relationship to loss and death. Wanting to explore death is not about being grim or fatalistic, it is a crucial part of understanding our lives, our fears and our pain. Perhaps more importantly, it is a part of connecting with our deeper purpose from a larger perspective. In this place we may not only find a means to cope with death but possibly gain something larger than ourselves.
“Dying is the most important thing you do in your life. It’s the greatest frontier for every one of us.”
“Death if our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.”
“From those women I also learned that a terminal illness is less distressful when it is attributed to the natural cycle of life rather than to failure. The secret to coping with the pain of an uncertain loss, regardless of culture or personal beliefs, is to avoid feeling helpless. This is accomplished by working to change what we can and accepting what we cannot.”
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