Soulful Collective is a for-abundance company that provides us with an opportunity to do our hearts’ work. The company also supports the non-profit work of Soulfulness, a website and community that shares insights and inspiration with regard to the “art of living with meaning and connection”.
St Luke’s Hospice provides specialised end of life medical and nursing care, known as palliative care, to people with life-limiting illnesses. They do this through professional home and in-patient ward nursing support. To support patients, they extend services to families by providing psychosocial, spiritual and bereavement care to patients and their families throughout the greater Cape Town area.
The Conversation Project co-founded by Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Goodman in 2012, is a public engagement initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a not-for-profit organization that is a leader in health and health care improvement worldwide. Their goal is both simple and transformative: to help everyone talk about their wishes for care through the end of life, so those wishes can be….
The Hospice Palliative Care Association (HPCA) is a registered NPO in South Africa. Founded in 1987, the HPCA is a member organisation for South African hospices. As a national charity, the association champions and supports around 89 member organisations that provide hospice services to approximately 100,000 patients and their families per year. HPCA’s member hospices across South Africa care for patients with a variety of life-threatening diseases, predominantly in the comfort of their own homes.
‘To allay fears of death we need to bring it back to life’ –The over-medicalisation of death has pushed it to the back of minds. This needs to change, say experts.
An article by Claire Keeton, Senior features writer for the Sunday Times.
Sean O’Connor talks about the Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death, recently featured in the Daily Maverick. The aarticle encourages the fact that we clearly have much to talk about – Death is part of life, not something that happens at the end of it.
Sean O’Connor is a writer, performer, memorial service celebrant and end-of-life carer. He hosts the ‘How To Die’ podcast at www.howtodie.co.za,