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Hi...listening and missed getting in to answer the last question...but here's what keeps me up at night. The erosion of truth-saying and therefore the erosion of my trust in anything told to me by 'my government'. Or I should say the government of my country...which just doesn't feel like MY country. With the news just full of the breaking down of people's lives due to decisions based on lies and greed, I feel hard pressed to know what to base my thinking on, with regard to issues that politicians or government put before me.
~Marian

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So glad this topic is airing! I support consciousness ALL around death, including care of the body after death. I think it makes sense to plan for a death just like a birth...and to harvest all the benefits of healing and spiritual growth that are ripe for the plucking in an experience like this. I also like to encourage people to plan for their own funeral...and for how their body will be cared for until it is buried or cremated. I'm an artist who makes beautiful burial shrouds ( a ceremonial garment for the dead) and encourages people to care for their dead at home. I've been a hospice volunteer as well as taught lots of folks about home funerals and after-death care of the body. Hospice workers are very well placed to help with this if they are so inclined. The 'line' is a little unclear as to exactly when and where Hospice care ends. It can be extremely reassuring and helpful to the family to really 'receive' the death if they are part of the bathing and dressing and preparing the body for a home visitation or memorial. Many people are under the mistaken impression that it is not legal to care for a body and create a funeral at home but it is. I'd like to see more discussion on this...and I'd like to do some brainstorming about how Hospice can be more involved in bringing this compassionate option to people they work with.
I'm so glad to live in a state with such a forward thinking populace!
Marian Spadone

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