{"id":20045,"date":"2025-08-27T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=20045"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:41:24","slug":"death-etc-lol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/27\/death-etc-lol\/","title":{"rendered":"death etc lol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">read this article this morning &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/03\/health\/maid-medical-assistance-dying-colombia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU8.Hzo7.po2_oOfwlYHU&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">&#8220;a cancer patient chose assisted death. that wasn&#8217;t the last hard choice.&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; and it made me cry for a lot of reasons. i&#8217;m obviously reflecting on mom&#8217;s last years and what could have improved them and how she ended her last days (palliative care\/hospice was amazing and yet still she seemed to suffer). have been thinking so much about death and the afterlife and religion and the meaning of it all. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">been talking to my therapist about it, and he seems to believe in reincarnation (maybe i do, too? i just <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> believe in nothingness), and asked what he thought my mom needed to learn from her struggles, and what *i* needed to learn from my experience with her. i don&#8217;t know. how important friends and family are? suzy suggested how important filling my cup is&#8230;but\u2026is that my lesson? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">one of the writer&#8217;s comments hit home, &#8220;I have seen, reporting this series, that just as you say, in the months and years after a difficult death many people start to question what a &#8216;regular&#8217; death looks like in their community.&#8221; i&#8217;m scared that there is no \u201cregular\u201d (i.e., non-stressful?) death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>read this article this morning &#8212; &#8220;a cancer patient chose assisted death. that wasn&#8217;t the last hard choice.&#8221; &#8212; and it made me cry for a lot of reasons. i&#8217;m obviously reflecting on mom&#8217;s last years and what could have improved them and how she ended her last days (palliative care\/hospice was amazing and yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-20045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20045"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20068,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045\/revisions\/20068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}