Will you or won't you?
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:00 pm
Will you or won’t you?
We all have to prepare to leave the planet sometime, though we hope with the help of changing our bodies, our minds and our spirits after diagnosis this may not happen any time soon.
BUT we need to have things in place and know how to go about it.
‘Sooner or later the urn is broken’ said the Roman poet Horace about 30BC, , and that of course applies to every single human being ‘a little boat will take us’ –well Horace said ‘to eternal exile’—whatever your belief system on that one, there are things which happen around this transition point, and this forum will be one for collecting our combined thoughts.
And Horace’s Odes are worth a look too: the English poet Tennyson declared that the Odes provided "jewels five-words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all Time / Sparkle for ever"
First up here are two links to talks by Domenico Barasio on palliative care: He talks about the need to accept death as part of life, and points out that it has similarities with birth.. read on…
Domenico Borasio and palliative care: http://www.goethe.de/ges/phi/eth/en4757631.htm
And YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R6YPuFu-7I
We all have to prepare to leave the planet sometime, though we hope with the help of changing our bodies, our minds and our spirits after diagnosis this may not happen any time soon.
BUT we need to have things in place and know how to go about it.
‘Sooner or later the urn is broken’ said the Roman poet Horace about 30BC, , and that of course applies to every single human being ‘a little boat will take us’ –well Horace said ‘to eternal exile’—whatever your belief system on that one, there are things which happen around this transition point, and this forum will be one for collecting our combined thoughts.
And Horace’s Odes are worth a look too: the English poet Tennyson declared that the Odes provided "jewels five-words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all Time / Sparkle for ever"
First up here are two links to talks by Domenico Barasio on palliative care: He talks about the need to accept death as part of life, and points out that it has similarities with birth.. read on…
Domenico Borasio and palliative care: http://www.goethe.de/ges/phi/eth/en4757631.htm
And YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R6YPuFu-7I