End-of-life
“The end-of-life patients finding solace in magic mushrooms”
Shayla Love writes for The Guardian: In many ways, the renaissance in psychedelic research was born from the studies on terminal cancer patients at Johns Hopkins and New York University (NYU). The writer Michael Pollan covered one such study in the New Yorker, and his subsequent book, How to Change Your Mind, shot up bestseller … Read more“The end-of-life patients finding solace in magic mushrooms”
“This doctor wants to humanize death”
A short documentary on the work of pediatric palliative care physician, Dr. Nadia Tremonti. When a child is terminally ill, how can we make their end of life a better one?
“Briefly Perfectly Human”
A heads-up that death doula Alua Arthur’s new book may be pre-ordered via this link: Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End.
“On Death and Dying”
Caleb Cucaro-Green explains the Aretheon approach to life and mortality.
“The First Protocols of Queer Goetia”
The First Protocols of Queer Goetia is an anonymous text first published in 2019. It begins: [1. QUEER: “strange, peculiar, eccentric.” From the German quer meaning “oblique, perverse, odd” which in turn comes from the Old High German word for “oblique.” twerh, which is derived from the root terkw, “to turn, twist, wind” as in “the labyrinth turns, twists, winds.” … Read more“The First Protocols of Queer Goetia”
“Rites of Passage: Death”
In the first episode of his series on rites of passage, English artist Grayson Perry creates rituals to commemorate the life of Jordan Seddon – a 17-year-old boy killed by a drunk driver – and officiates a celebration of life for Roch Maher, a man dying of motor neurone disease. A powerful, moving argument for … Read more“Rites of Passage: Death”