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monday’s rumi by oldmonk on Nov 2, 2009
Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don’t really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate? Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) source: Moyne, J. & Barks, C. (1984) (trans.). Open secr...
Huge public support for change in law to allow the right to die by Shrink Rap on Jul 25, 2009
Overwhelming public support for a change in the law to allow medically assisted suicide is revealed in a poll for The Times. Almost three quarters (74 per cent) of people want doctors to be allowed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs...
breathing as one by oldmonk on May 23, 2009
Yesterday afternoon a patient who’d been at hospice for almost ten weeks—well beyond the more common length of time averaging less than a week—took his last breath. We’d sat together two days earlier, before my days-off. By now he’d...