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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Jun 14

How we peacefully protest in the western Maine mountains. #NoKings

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · May 29

Three women and two doctors are suing Kansas over a law that nullifies a person’s decisions about end-of-life care if they are pregnant, arguing that it violates the right to personal autonomy and equal protection under the state constitution.

Women sue Kansas over law that disregards end-of-life wishes during pregnancy

Three women and two physicians in Kansas are suing the state over its law that invalidates the advance directives of pregnant patients.

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Apr 1

Ah, the sounds that hearken Spring. 💜

#seasons #spring

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Mar 27

How do you tend to describe the difference between grief and mourning? What seems to resonate the most in your explanation?

#death #deathsky #grief #mourning

Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Mar 26

Remembering poet Walt Whitman, who died on this day in 1892.

#deathsky #griefsky

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Mar 23

#griefsky #deathsky

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Mar 18

Re: “moving on” after a loved one dies.

We tend to translate it as moving on from the person we love. But let me offer a reframe.

Perhaps it can be moving on from the PAIN of their passing; giving yourself permission to move THROUGH your feelings.

You carry your loved one with you.

#deathsky

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Guy Kawasaki @guykawasaki.bsky.social · Mar 15

www.wired.com/story/signal...

How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging

The best end-to-end encrypted messaging app has a host of security features. Here are the ones you should care about.

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Mar 5

[Free Resource] for promoting modern funeral practices. Thx, @deadgoodlegacies.bsky.social

#deathsky

DEAD GOOD @deadgoodlegacies.bsky.social · Mar 5

We've just added four new images of modern green funerals to our unsplash profile. These are copyright free images and free for you to use.

A little gift from us to you.

www.unsplash.com/@deadgood

>KV

#deathsky #modernfunerals

DEAD GOOD LEGACIES (@deadgood) | Unsplash Photo Community

See 14 of the best free to download photos, images, and wallpapers by DEAD GOOD LEGACIES on Unsplash.

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Marie Curie UK @mariecurieuk.bsky.social · Mar 4

💬 Did you know our Responsive Emergency Assessment and Community Team (REACT) service aims to help keep patients with a terminal diagnosis out of hospital?

The scheme was set up after data showed that end-of-life patients spent an average of a month in hospital in the last year of their life. 💔

An ambulance parked in front of an Accident and Emergency department, with a text overlay stating, "We work with hospitals so people with a terminal illness can be cared for out of hospital. @mariecurieuk.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Mar 4

"A book ending with so much death may sound like a hard read. Instead, it is a beautiful and even strangely comforting one, with @michaelerard.bsky.social as a pensive, patient guide."

An @economist.com review of "Bye Bye I Love You":

Finding meaning in people’s first words—and their last

Why there is less significance than society would have you believe

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Mar 2

This Sunday, I invite you to contemplate the late, great Dr. Maya Angelou’s words on how love liberates.

#deathsky #deathdoula #grief

Dr. Maya Angelou on Loving and Letting Go | Belief | Oprah Winfrey Network

YouTube video by OWN

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Feb 17

“Everything we can save is worth saving.”
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Rebecca Solnit tweet quote meme: “They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Mar 1

Damn…the new Bon Iver song “Things behind things behind things” just broke me open.

#musicsky #boniver #lyricalpoetry

THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS

Bon Iver · SABLE, · Song · 2024

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Mar 1

Standing on the bare ground, – my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, – all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Mar 1

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, – no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair.

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Feb 18

Stephen is the philosopher for our time. It took me forever to get through Die Wise. Every page broke me into a million shards.

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Feb 18

It’s hard to imagine it has already been a decade since Stephen Jenkinson launched his seminal work on the #death trade, Die Wise. In celebration of this movement, he is offering a 2-day online event. Register today for a $100USD discount.

#deathsky #deathwalker #diewise #palliativecare #EOLD

Sanity & Soul: Die Wise, Ten Years On - 5 part online event - Orphan Wisdom

Join our 5-part online event to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Die Wise, A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul “Dying wise is a moral obligation. Dying well is not […]

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Feb 14

Expansion, not contraction.

Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Feb 10

Mindfulness of #death and one’s own mortality is a beautiful practice toward presence.

Art: M.C. Escher “Eye” 1946

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Feb 7

I just discovered Jon Carling’s art. Here’s my favorite piece thus far.

#artsky

Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · Feb 6

Sanctuary

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Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social · Feb 6

In Welsh folklore, snowdrops and their white shroud-like petals symbolized death... #FolkloreThursday 📷Jane Mucklow

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Cory Muscara @corymuscara.bsky.social · Jan 13

Sometimes life is just incredibly tragic.

You don't need an inspirational quote.

You just need to feel.
Be angry.
Grieve.
Cry.

You can find the deeper meaning and growth opportunity later.

First, be human.

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Amanda Coolong @acoolong.bsky.social · Feb 7

The Last Ecstatic Days - a touching documentary about a young man who teaches us how to approach death in community and without fear.

#deathsky #grief #endoflife

The Last Ecstatic Days

Ethan Sisser, a young man with terminal brain cancer, sits alone in his hospital room. When he starts livestreaming his death journey on social media, thousands of people around the world join to cele...

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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · Feb 5

Grief belongs in our life. We should be trying to learn it as a skill and not, as is so often the case, trying to get through it or over it.

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