You’re invited to a fundraising event for Can Too Run and Swim. I will speak on the life affirming business of preparing for a good death and Sue Pullar, principal of Sue’s Home Care Nursing will also speak. Your ticket price all goes to Anne Lingafelter’s fundraiser, Can Too Run and Swim, which raises much […]
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Watch this space – A Good Fight.
In a few minutes an episode of ABC’s Australian Story about a friend who is very dear to my heart will go to air. The story – The Good Fight – is about Jill Emberson an ABC radio personality from Newcastle. Jill is an old school friend of mine who was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer […]
You only die once campaign starts
As Palliative Care West Australia launches its new campaign “You only die once”, urging people to prepare an advance care directive, it seems the right time to post this clip when Studio 10’s Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Joe Hildebrand interviewed me. In this very poignant interview, recorded in May this year, Kerri-Anne explains candidly that she never […]
Making music as a way to say goodbye
Here is a wonderful example of how we can bring our talents and who we are right up to the experience of the death of someone we love. Being with the people we love as they die and actively participating in how we say goodbye to them makes death easier to bear, as English musician […]
My Deer, Phoenix Park.
That’s a full stop – a red stop sign with angled corners and a white line around it. Resting here, my knees have buckled, in front of that sign you planted in my path. I have walked this space so confidently, happy to share what I know, to muck in. Sleeves rolled up, information exchanged, […]