I recently sat at the bedside of a patient who took her last breath… I did not rush anything, and I didn’t feel the need to say anything...

I sat down next to his bed and told him matter-a-factly, “you have to let people help you, you cannot do this on your own anymore.” I...

What does the word “suffering” mean to you? How would you use it in a sentence? How have you personally experienced it? I think the first...

I am often asked why someone is taking so long to die, especially when they have gone days without food or water, they are no longer...

Grief can be rainbows on a really stormy day It can be gale force winds with skies filled with grey It can be sunshine and clouds It can...

I had a dream that I walked out into my living room, and on the coffee table was a telephone. It wasn’t mine, and it wasn’t there the...

My heart is reminded what day this is I don’t need a calendar for that It remembers it like it was yesterday It’s the day that I first...

I received a call from the daughter of a patient I had only seen one time almost a year ago. After my visit with her mother, I had called...

I was present for a man who chose to exercise his legal right to take the end-of-life medication’s to end his suffering caused by his...

I was once called “Cemetery Girl”. Seriously, it’s true. Even as a really young kid, I was fascinated and drawn to cemeteries. Back then,...

I often talk about having a conversation with the people you love about what is most important to them at the end of their life, way...

I had a patient a few years ago, who I visited twice a week until she died. On her coffee table was this box, it was never opened. It...

I truly do believe that people are coming from a thoughtful place when they say things to someone who is grieving, but unfortunately,...

When I walked in the room, I could see she was struggling… for life, for breath, and for peace, and when she said to me, “can you help...

“Gabby, I think mom is dying.” This was a message I received from the daughter of a woman I had the pleasure of visiting with for over a...

I picked up the phone to call you today Forgetting (again) you are gone So many things I’ve wanted to say Wishing you could pick up the...

When I started this particular blog, I had just been present for seven people in ten days who had exercised their legal right to take the...

I was on a flight home sitting next to two kids, ages six and nine, both girls. They were playing games with their laptops, and watching...

This is a story about one of my doula clients who invited me to be there every step of the way of his end-of-life journey. He shared what...

I was sitting with a woman who was days before her death, fully conscious and aware of everything she was feeling and experiencing. She...