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Learning to Serve the Dying

By Gatwiri Muthara — 2019

End-of-life doulas provide a new type of caregiving to patients and families.

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The Big Ordeal

Coping with cancer is hard. It is an emotional ordeal as well as a physical one, with known and somewhat predictable psychological responses. And yet, patients often feel isolated and alone when dealing with the stress, anxiety, depression, and existential crises so typical with a cancer diagnosis.

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Cynthia Hayes
2025
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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions—and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time.

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Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, Marsha M. Linehan
2025
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Breast Cancer Husband Discusses His Anger and Emotions

Breast cancer husband, James Coffee, talks about how he felt after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer.

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2010
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How to Support a Loved One in Pain?—Jeff Foster

Jeff Foster talks with a woman about how to best support a loved one who is in emotional distress. Recorded 26th April live in Holland.

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Jeff Foster
2015
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Being an Abandoned Child | Brendan Maguire | TEDxNSCCWaterfront

Brendan’s community became his home when he moved from house to house after his parents left him with his three brothers and a sister when he was 4 at a shopping mall. They never came back.

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2016
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Why Is it Important for Us to Understand Death and Dying?

A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk’s near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained from it “One of the most inspiring books I have ever read.”—Pema Chödrön, author of When Things Fall Apart.

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2019
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Being Mortal (Full Film) | Frontline

How do you talk about death with a dying loved one? 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.

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Atul Gawande
2020
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant—she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins.

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Suleika Jaouad
2021
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Stephen and Ondrea Levine Discuss Fear and Death

This video is an excerpt from Stephen and Ondrea’s “Couch Talk 15.”

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Stephen Levine
2012
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Death-Positive Movement