We lost a great one today. 105th birthday was earlier this month.
#PublicSchool #teacher for decades. Artist. Learner of languages.
#GirlGeek before it was cool. Her first #tech was a Compaq luggable followed by an IBM PS/2. Was still active on her computer at 100 years old.
Mother. Grandmother. And 39 days ago, great grandmother.
Fitting for a lifelong #educator, her final act in #hospice was to help train a nurse on ultrasound-visualized IV placement.
We will miss you. Love always. #Peace
CW- end of life
My friend is dying. She has multiple issues and MS that has her paralyzed. She is so angry with the situation: illness, the medical system, one of her kids cutting her off. It's understandable! I can't be there because of health and distance. She has chosen MAID at some point (medically assisted legal death). This does not bother me in any way. I wish I could help her find peace (maybe that's not my job, and I am not a qualified......???). How do you process the injustice of illness and the medical system? I am guessing she's not done yet on some level. I just really wish her some sort of peace or better last days.
Just throwing this out there if anyone has been through this and or has a link for useful stuff.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116292195440386555
Meanwhile... I sit here in the #USA arguing with family about the cost of #hospice care for a woman who gave decades of her life as a #PublicSchool #teacher.
#UniversalHealth #Healthcare #affordability #ConceptsOfAPlan
"My sister called: our father was about to die. Our parents, long divorced, were both in hospice, on opposite coasts." —Amanda Peet for The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-season-of-ativan?src=longreads
The #FinalMission was accomplished. Well done, bro. Well done, sis. You moved heaven and earth to make it happen.
She's still with us, and every day of #life from here is a special extra #blessing beyond all the gifts she's already given us throughout our lives.
Amanda Peet on Getting Breast Cancer While Losing Her Parents
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-season-of-ativan
There is perhaps no experience so profound as being involved in another human's final moments in this life.
And nothing so surreal as sitting with someone in #hospice while reading news about #war in #Iran and #Gaza, and humanitarian crises of #starvation, #violence, and pilferage perpetuated by the #rich and those in #power.
#Humanity is unspeakably beautiful and ineffably cruel.
🇨🇦 Shani Komulainen 🍁
Daniel M. Reck
Pomegranate Pirate 🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Colleen B 
Longreads
The New Yorker
CBC London