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Funeral Planning: Having the Talk with Your Loved One
Funeral planning isn't an easy thing to talk about for most people, and certainly not with the people you love. After all, imagine planning your funeral. But sooner or later, everyone should have "the...Read entire article »
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The Legacy Project: What is It & How It Can Help
What is the Legacy Project? A legacy is a gift from one generation to the next. Although a legacy can be considered anything from a monetary gift to a special talent or even a...Read entire article »
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The 5 Steps to Creating Your Legacy Project
The Legacy Project’s five parts marry your own personal history, your family’s heritage and lets your family know your beliefs and wants for end-of-life care. Many have found that The Legacy Project works to...Read entire article »
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Symbolic Immortality: Thoughts About the Future
We can all imagine and anticipate concerns about our death. Considering our own mortality necessarily brings with it feelings of uncertainty and anxiety. Death represents both the physical and mental annihilation of life. Most...Read entire article »
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Writing Your Ethical Will
An ethical will is another way for an individual to allow others into their personal thoughts, hopes and philosophies. An ethical will is not a legal document as compared to a living will, which...Read entire article »
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Creating a Family Tree
Some people find building a family tree gives them a sense of place within a historical context, others enjoy the idea of piecing together a puzzle, while others might use it to create a...Read entire article »
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Scrapbooking
A heritage scrapbook is a wonderful project for the whole family and a way to share precious memories down through the generations. The most common scrapbook album size is 12"x12", but some prefer the...Read entire article »
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Recording the Family History: A Legacy Project Interview
One of the most powerful tools in the Legacy Project is the interviewing of family and friends of a person who is nearing the end of their life or facing a life-threatening illness. When...Read entire article »
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Legacy of Love: Making Your Wishes Known
Whether you are healthy, just growing old or nearing the end of your life, it is a wise move and a gift of love to your family and friends to make arrangements for end-of-life...Read entire article »
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Hospice Care: Living with Terminal Illness
Patients and their families are usually overwhelmed when faced with the diagnosis of terminal illness. Many patients are symptom-free until an illness or hospitalization reveals they have a life-limiting condition. Suddenly, everything changes. Feelings...Read entire article »
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Hospice: How Chaplains Help
Hospice patients and their family members have many wonderful services available to them under the auspices of hospice care. One of these services is spiritual counseling, provided by a chaplain from the hospice’s interdisciplinary...Read entire article »
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Hospice: Getting Back Control of Your Life
Hospice is a wonderful service that gives control back to patients and their families. When people find out that they have an incurable illness, they often feel powerless in light of the situation and think...Read entire article »
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Dealing With End of Life Issues
When my uncle died unexpectedly last year, my mother and aunt went to tell my grandmother together. I wasn’t there when it happened. I only know that after her initial emotional reaction, she told...Read entire article »
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