ElderHope

My Dad

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:30:00 -0100

Hi my name is Charles and Its coming up to the 39th anniversary of my dad's death (Gordon Haskell).

Personal Funeral Planning

Sat, 22 Jan 2005 06:50:00 -0100

Planning one's funeral and paying some of the attendant costs can releive enormous burdens from families who are coping with the loss of a loved one. Here's a short summary we did on-air that may help...

Preparing for loss

Sat, 22 Jan 2005 06:50:00 -0100

No matter what age we are, none of us are immune to death. Featured on KEOM, here's a brief list of ideas to help prepare for our own death or the death of a loved one.

Rethinking Death

Mon, 07 Jul 2003 06:00:00 -0100

Death is not a failure, it is an opportunity. Reflections on what we must learn from death if we are to make it through with peace...

Of birds and loss...

Sat, 12 Apr 2003 05:00:00 -0100

A while back, an ElderHope friend wrote us with a touching story and poem. She had written us several times telling us about the losses she had experienced. On the occasion of this poem, three generations of women, our friend, Gail, her granddaughter, Madison, a four year old, and her daughter, Becki, were out for a walk. They happened upon a "dead mama-sized bird under a bush in front of our house. It looked as though it were asleep, and Madison called and tried to wake her up." Becki, having lost both her father, Gail's husband, and her grandmother, Grace, in the past year, "tried to explain death to Madison and we all ended up crying silently."