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Dying at home…
Dying at home… Death and I By Juliane Uhl Friends often react with shock when she says someone died in their house. Her answer is simple: they did it because they could. Five years earlier, the family
Juliane Uhl2 minApril 2016 - Kolumne2|16
Working with death
Working with death By Juliane Uhl For five years, she has worked with coffins, urns, cremation culture, funeral practices and the social handling of death. She asks whether this makes her an expert, a
Juliane Uhl3 minApril 2016 - Tagebuch2|16
Dying can also be beautiful
Dying can also be beautiful Diary By Eva Mittenzwei Written ten days after her mother’s death, it is not meant primarily as a report of dying, but as encouragement to overcome boundaries and fears. Dy
Eva Mittenzwei11 minApril 2016 - Freiwilliger Verzicht auf Nahrung und Flüssigkeit2|16
Sterbefasten
Sterbefasten Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking By Dr. Roland Martin Hanke The article refers to Bodewijn Chabot’s book Ausweg am Lebensende , which describes FVNF as a conscious way to end lif
Dr. Roland Martin Hanke6 minApril 2016 - Interview2|16
Palliative Care und Politik
Yvonne Dauer speaks with Bundestag member Emmi Zeulner about hospice and palliative care policy. Zeulner describes how personal family experiences and her work during her studies on a palliative care
Yvonne Dauer6 minApril 2016 - Thema2|16
Palliative approaches in cardiology
Palliative approaches in cardiology A case-based self-critique By Dr. Hendrik Bachmann Mr. R. first met his cardiologist about ten years earlier during an acute anterior-wall myocardial infarction. Th
Dr. Hendrik Bachmann11 minApril 2016 - Feedback2|16
Letters to the editor
Letters to the editor Nicole Schneider-Kehne responds to the article “Der besondere Fall” from issue 01|2016. She notes that in Hesse an emergency physician is not allowed to issue an SAPV prescriptio
Palliativ-Portal Redaktion2 minApril 2016 - Spiritual Care2|16
Passion for “Lebensfarben”
Passion for “Lebensfarben” A palliative chaplain, a church band and an extraordinary spiritual-care project Ten musicians, months of preparation and a deep commitment to the hospice idea resulted in a
Palliativ-Portal Redaktion3 minApril 2016 - Kindertrauer2|16
Small children – big feelings
Small children – big feelings By Anja Gehrke-Huy Yet children encounter death in stories, nature, community life and sometimes within the family. Especially in preschool and primary-school age, they o
Anja Gehrke-Huy3 minApril 2016 - Trauern zutrauen2|16
Trusting children to grieve
Trusting children to grieve Accompanying children in their grief By Anja Gehrke-Huy As a social educator and companion for dying and grieving people, she is less concerned with whether to speak with c
Anja Gehrke-Huy3 minApril 2016 - Ausstellungskatalog2|16
Cartoons on dying, death and grief
Cartoons on dying, death and grief Exhibition catalogue “SIE hat mir der Himmel geschickt!” The Hospiz-Akademie Bamberg celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2012 and, together with the hospice associat
Detlef Ermold und Konrad Göller2 minApril 2016 - Columba spiritual care2|16
Impulses for the soul
Impulses for the soul Columba spiritual care Texts from the “Lebensfarben” project by Markus Starklauf The first prose text invites readers to look at their own life balance and to live attentively in
Markus Starklauf4 minApril 2016 - Diskursprojekt2|16
Discourse project: 30 Thoughts on Death
Discourse project: 30 Thoughts on Death No one can answer from personal experience, because when I am dead the “I” whose death is in question is no longer there. Yet death is something people think ab
Martin W. Schnell und Christian Schulz4 minApril 2016 - Der besondere Fall2|16
The special case: spiritual care
The special case: spiritual care By Markus Starklauf Patient: female, born 1972 Diagnosis: metastatic colon cancer After a short stay on the palliative ward she is cared for at home by her parents and
Markus Starklauf5 minApril 2016 - Übergabe eines Spendenschecks2|16
Visit to the Irmengard-Hof at Gstadt am Chiemsee
Visit to the Irmengard-Hof at Gstadt am Chiemsee The Björn Schulz Foundation, which has long worked for such families in Bavaria, leased the historic three-sided farm from the Benedictine convent of F
Palliativ-Portal Redaktion1 minApril 2016
