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
