In Episode 4 of the Morbid Curiosities Podcast, Rosie and George are taking a more solemn tone than they normally would - dealing with the somewhat more serious topics of Grieving and Hospice Care. Rosie talks us through the famed five stages of grief and how they don't fully reflect human experience - George introduces one of the most remarkable women in British medical history - Rosie discusses how social media affects the way we grieve and remember each other - George makes it a whole episode without referencing video games.
References:
www.healthtalk.org - Information and support forums for a range of health issues, including many personal reports of hospice experience
www.hospiceuk.org - The website of Hospice UK, with a huge wealth of information on
www.nhs.uk/Planners/end-of-life-care/Pages/hospice-care.aspx - The NHS's page on hospice care; the NHS
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-digital-possessions-keep-us-from-letting-go-of-the-dead - Article about “Digital Data That Dies Like Us”
www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/style/how-to-express-sympathy.html
- Excellent and useful article on how to approach conversation with the
bereaved.
www.thegriefgeek.com - The Grief Geek, a brilliant resource for all things grief and grieving
www.thegriefgeek.com - The Grief Geek, a brilliant resource for all things grief and grieving
A Way to Die: Living to the End, by Rosemary and Victor Zorza - a moving autobiographical work about the two authors' experience of hospice care for their daughter, Jane.
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande - The author's stories of exploring the modern experience of mortality how medicine has and hasn't changed the world, and where our ideas about death have gone wrong.
https://ia801502.us.archive.org/14/items/Episode4GriefHospiceCare_201610/Episode%204%20-%20Grief,%20Hospice%20Care.mp3
Al Jacob turned me on to you guys, and I love what you do!
ReplyDeleteIn response to you listener question, I would say:
Take each second as it comes to you. Survive that second and try not to think about the future right now; how you'll make it to tomorrow, next week, or month or year, just survive the seconds. When you can do that and be ok, then survive the minutes, the hours, days. Some days will be ok, and some will be hell, and you may feel like you were doing so well but you're drowning all over again, it's ok. When that happens, just survive the seconds.
Again, totally love what you guys do. You were delving into a difficult and sensitive subject, and you were perfect in your exicution! And like so many, I've lost people too, I just kinda wish I could have listened to this all those times.
Oh, and you guys killed it at Roulette the other night! So gonna try and see your show on the 13th Dec, since it's my birthday! ♡
Hi Hannah,
DeleteThank you so much for such a beautiful, heartfelt and vulnerable response. And thank you for listening, watching and supporting us, we really appreciate it!
If you do come along on the 13th (and we sincerely hope you do), please let us know so we can say hi and also happy birthday :D we're always up for a post-show drink and chat!
Much love,
Gimcrack
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