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Saying Good-bye to My Mother--With Help From the Tibetan Book of the Dead
October 1, 1999Mother’s blood pressure is lower, the nurse says, but to me she seems the same. Maybe that’s because I see her every day. Her body looks so pitiful lying here in the bed. She’s in a fetal position, much like a baby,...
Chance Encounters
I don’t understand why mother always cries when she says good-bye to grandma at the airport terminal gate. After all, grandma only leaves for a few months each year and she’ll be back in no time. It’s funny how my mother never seems...
Funerals and Memorials: A Part of Recovery
A memorial service and funeral are important elements in the chain of events that occurs after a death. For many, these ceremonies may be difficult because it brings vivid reminders of the loss, resonates with finality, and emphasizes fears of the...
Family Therapy with Families Facing Catastrophic Illness--Building Internal and External Resources
Ten years ago my late husband Ronald William Pulleyblank, with the help of his doctor and with a small group of witnesses, had his ventilator turned off, after living on it for seven years. Those years and the ones since then have radically...
Sailing in the Wind's Eye: Charting My Mother's Bipolar Journey
My mother was fifty-nine when she took her life. She had had many intimate dealings with suicide and knew it well; this final act was the last in a long history of incomplete attempts. On the afternoon of her thirty-fifth wedding anniversary,...