by Jack Moline | Jun 11, 2020 | Opinion
Like every rabbi, I have attended to bereaved family members in almost every circumstance of death. Some deaths approach slowly and inevitably, like a train arriving across a plain with a distant horizon. Some deaths burst onto the scene like a balloon popping at...
by Monty Self | Apr 8, 2020 | Opinion
As the number of COVID-19 infected cases has risen to nearly 400,000 in the United States, we are seeing metropolitan areas crushed with the flood of patients. Two weeks ago, The Washington Post ran a story that reported some institutions were considering a COVID-19...
by Laura Landgraf | Nov 27, 2019 | Opinion
Dad died Thanksgiving morning several years ago. To write “Dad died” unleashes a snarl of tangled emotions. Love, loss, wishful thinking, anger, “if onlys,” “why?,” longing, forever. I loved that man with wholehearted abandon until loving him was no longer safe. Even...
by Christopher Schilling | Mar 11, 2019 | Opinion
A team of nurses and doctors surround an elderly man. Standing next to his daughter, a woman in her mid-50s, I try to be what we as hospital chaplains are called to be: a non-anxious presence. With the sounds of alarms and the visualization of a nurse giving chest...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 20, 2016 | News
Latino and Latina death practices differ significantly from those of Anglo Protestant families, yet they are largely unknown outside the Latino community. Candi K. Cann, assistant professor in Baylor University’s Interdisciplinary Core of the Honors College,...
