Musings on Mortality: Good dying time results in good death
The very first module for my medical humanities course is called "Good Death: Oxymoron or Possibility?" A good death implies a good dying...
Musings on Mortality: Combat stress by embracing whatever brings joy
There is a term used in the field of thanatology called "mortality salience." It comes out of a theory called "Terror Management Theory"...
Musings on Mortality: Being open about death helps everyone
When death is in the house you feel the impermanence of life. When you feel the impermanence of life, you feel truth. When death is in...
Musings on Mortality: Current events can escalate death phobia
It starts with the denial of death. We are pretty sure that we won't die anytime soon so we don't give it much thought. Why obsess over...
Can We Ever Be Prepared to Die?
Ms. Alecson examines this contemporary and socially relevant discourse. Recorded in Palo Alto, CA on May 27, 2015. #medicalethics...
Taylor & Francis Online: Converting Loss Into Language
Converting Loss Into Language DOI:10.1080/02682621.2014.980990 Deborah Golden Alecson MS Special Education Adjunct Instructor, pages...
Dying in America
Distance EDU on Demand presents Deborah Golden Alecson's discussion on a September 2014 report issued by the Institute of Medicine called...
Conscious Dying with Deborah Golden Alecson
Hospice Care in the Berkshires Presents "Inside Hospice Care" with host, Jane Salata, speaking with author, thanatologist, poet and...
Redefining Hope with Deborah Golden Alecson
Hospice Care in the Berkshires Presents "Inside Hospice Care" with host, Jane Salata, speaking with author, thanatologist, poet and...
Live & Learn: Excelsior College Magazine
Vol. 16, No. 1 | Spring 2014 Death, dying, and bereavement are anything but dead subjects for School of Health Sciences adjunct faculty...