Soaring Spirits
The Soaring Spirits websites provides documents for newly widowed community members and other general resources on processing the trauma of grief.
The Truth About the Five Stages of Grief
The Truth About the Five Stages of Grief provides a straightforward lens into historic and scientific studies on grief and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief model. The video breaks down common assumptions on loss and shares alternative such as the dual-process model of grief. It also explains various risk trajectories associated with grief including chronic grief and chronic depression.
Fatal Flaws: The Assisted Death Debate (Euthanasia Documentary)
Should we be giving doctors the right to end the lives of others by euthanasia or assisted suicide? Fatal Flaws: Legalizing Assisted Death is a thought-provoking journey through Europe and North America to find answers to this question. Some 20 years after these laws were introduced, evensome of the most loyal supporters of assisted dyingare questioning where these laws are taking us. The grandfather of euthanasia in the Netherlands, Dr.
Views on End-of-Life Medical Treatments
At a time of national debate over health care costs and insurance, a Pew Research Center survey on end-of-life decisions finds most Americans say there are some circumstances in which doctors and nurses should allow a patient to die. At the same time, however, a growing minority says that medical professionals should do everything possible to save a patient’s life in all circumstances.
Foundations of Practice for Interprofessional Age-Friendly Care
The Foundations of Practice for Interprofessional Age-Friendly Care is for healthcare professionals who are interested in developing a foundational practice for age-friendly care. It is divided into an introduction, and three short sections: The Aging Population, Models of Care and the Interprofessional Team and Age-Friendly Care.
Religious Groups’ Views on End-of-Life Issues
Pew Research outlines 16 major American religious groups that explin how their faith traditions’ teachings address physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and other end-of-life questions.
The religions include:
To End Our Days: The Social, Legal and Political Dimensions of the End-of-Life Debate
In recent years, legislatures and courts, religious leaders and scientists, citizens and patient advocates have all weighed in on end-of-life issues ranging from whether the terminally ill should have the right to take their own lives to how much treatment and sustenance those in the last stages of life should receive.
5 Facts About Americans’ Views On Life-And-Death Issues
Michael Lipka from Pew Research Center presents five facts regarding the nature of Americans' relationship with death:
"1. Death may not be the most comfortable topic to ponder, but 37% of Americans say they have given a great deal of thought to their own wishes for end-of-life medical treatment – up from 28% in 1990. A third (35%) say they have put their wishes in writing. At the same time, however, about a quarter (27%) say they’ve given no thought or not very much thought to their wishes.
Facing Death (Full Documentary)
In this 2010 documentary, FRONTLINE gained access to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of one of New York’s biggest hospitals. The filmmakers found doctors and nurses struggling to guide families through a maze of end-of-life choices that had become available: whether to pull feeding and breathing tubes, when to perform expensive surgeries and therapies and when to call for hospice. The documentary presented intimate portraits of patients grappling with the trade-offs of modern medicine and the prospect of dying.
Being Mortal (Full Documentary)
How do you talk about death with a dying loved one? In this moving documentary (54min), Dr. Atul Gawande explores death, dying and why even doctors struggle to discuss being mortal with patients, in this Emmy-nominated documentary. “Aging and dying — you can’t fix those," says Dr. Gawande. This film examines the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and how the medical profession can better help people navigate mortality. The ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life — to the very end.