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End of Life Wisdom Grief and Grieving Guest Blogs

Navigating Cancer With My Best Friend (Guest Post)

Liv Lane (left) and her best friend since childhood, Kelly (right) End in Mind is dedicated to helping people have difficult conversations about death and navigate grief and loss, and we are grateful to be able to share a deeply moving reflection from Liv Lane, an intuitive artist and inspirational…

Christa MelandMarch 29, 2021

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Wisdom from Losing a Loved One During the Pandemic

CaringBridge CEO Liwanag Ojala As the CEO of CaringBridge—a platform that allows people to share health updates and rally around those facing serious illness—Liwanag Ojala gives advice to caregivers and patients all the time. But last fall, she experienced what it was like to navigate her own loss when her…

Christa MelandFebruary 22, 2021

End of Life Wisdom Grief and Grieving

Saying Goodbye to Beloved Pets

Over the past nine months, as many of us have been working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve spent more time with our pets than ever before: They lay next to us as we type. They alert us anytime there’s a noise in our neighborhood. They even make occasional…

Christa MelandDecember 4, 2020

End of Life Wisdom Food for thought Guest Blogs

Longtime Palliative Care Chaplain Talks Life, Death, Healing (Guest Post)

We are grateful to be able to share a deep and rich reflection from a now retired palliative care chaplain. Katie Herman worked at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis from 1996 to 2012 and as a member of its Palliative Care Team immediately after it formed in 2003. Then from…

Christa MelandNovember 9, 2020

End of Life Wisdom Healing Stories and Storytelling

Wounded by Loss. Uplifted by Love. Celebrating and Remembering the dead

I was alone in the choir loft of St. Albert the Great Catholic Church. It was an All Souls Day Mass. I had carried the box of my Dad's ashes down the aisle of this same church eight months earlier and now in the choir loft, a tear or two…

Cathy WurzerOctober 28, 2020

End of Life Wisdom Healing Stories and Storytelling

In Gratitude for Michael

I always knew I'd have to write these words some day but had hoped to push this task off for months or even years but life doesn't work like that. Death came for my friend Michael Bischoff this week. He slipped from this world surrounded, uplifted and sent forward into…

Cathy WurzerFebruary 12, 2020

End of Life Wisdom Purposeful Living

“The Beatles had it right…”

End in Mind is dedicated to igniting conversations about what matters in living and dying. We've talked to many people who've been handed a terminal health diagnosis. They tell us they quickly learned what was most important to them as they faced the end of their lives. The rest of…

Cathy WurzerOctober 22, 2019

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As Twilight Closes In

There's a time when all of us will need to say goodbye to this world and to our loved ones. At End in Mind, we think this difficult but meaningful transition can be made a little easier if there is some clarity surrounding key decisions as life winds down. It…

Cathy WurzerOctober 7, 2019

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The End IS in Mind

Death is a part of life. At End in Mind, we honor that simple fact but to be honest, it starts to feel a little different when death starts picking off people around you...a reminder that some day, you too will join the ranks of the dearly departed. I'm in…

Navigating Cancer With My Best Friend (Guest Post)

Wisdom from Losing a Loved One During the Pandemic

Saying Goodbye to Beloved Pets

Longtime Palliative Care Chaplain Talks Life, Death, Healing (Guest Post)

Wounded by Loss. Uplifted by Love. Celebrating and Remembering the dead

In Gratitude for Michael

“The Beatles had it right…”

As Twilight Closes In

The End IS in Mind

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