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October 9, 2009: End of Life Decisions
"I want to just go peacefully. The only medications I want are going to be the ones that are going to comfort me. That’s all I want," says Jill Steuer, a nurse with advanced-stage breast cancer who has decided to stop any kind of treatment and receive hospice care.
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September 25, 2009: Yizkor Requiem
Composer and conducter Thomas Beveridge says his Yizkor Requiem is "a quest for spiritual roots" and a musical bridge between Christianity and Judaism.
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February 27, 2009: Forrest Church Profile
My lifelong belief is that love and death interwoven are the heartstrings of religion. The greatest of all truths is that love never dies. The opposite of love is not death. It is fear.
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February 27, 2009: Forrest Church Interview
One of the beautiful things about a terminal illness is you are invited into the present, and your friendships become stronger. Your loved ones become more vital and more present. Each day becomes more beautiful. You walk through the valley of the shadow, and it’s riddled with light.
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June 20, 2008: Body Donor Memorial Service
Every summer, first-year medical students from throughout Maryland gather with family members of people who donated their bodies to science.
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August 27, 2004: William Sloane Coffin Extended Interview
Read Bob Abernethy's full interview with William Sloane Coffin.
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A profile of a man who knows a great deal about poetry and a great deal about funerals. He is Thomas Lynch, writer and mortician, and each of his vocations enriches the other.
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May 4, 2001: Thomas Lynch Extended Interview
Read more of Bob Abernethy's interview with author and funeral director Thomas Lynch, followed by an excerpt from his book THE UNDERTAKING: LIFE STUDIES FROM THE DISMAL TRADE.
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