Deborah Golden Alecson

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Musings on Mortality: Ought we postpone our time to die?

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die." — Ecclesiastes 3...

Musings on Mortality: Death-phobic culture hinders end-of-life plans

My first experience with how unreasonable our culture is regarding death came after the birth of my irreversibly brain-damaged daughter...

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...

Selected Poetry: Dementia

the slideshow has slowed to a standstill one blurry frame remains its content always disheveled it is noted, the movement of drops Read...

Nursing in the 21st Century

A Thanatologist's Point of View I came to the field of thanatology through the door of medical ethics. I was always drawn to the study of...

Massachusetts needs Death with Dignity measure

The Death with Dignity Initiative is an act affirming a terminally ill patient’s right to compassionate dying. It encompasses the right...

Religious Roundtable

Deborah Golden Alecson joins Rabba Kaya Stern-Kaufman at the Religious Roundtable for a conversation about coping with grief during the...

Complicated Grief: A Poetry Reading by Deborah Golden Alecson

Deborah Golden Alecson reads from her new collection of poetry, Complicated Grief. Recorded at Lauren Clark Fine Art, Great Barrington,...

WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation

WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Deborah Golden Alecson, Thanatologist, Author, and Adjunct Faculty Member at Excelsior College.

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...

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Musings on Mortality: Plan a dignified death on your own terms

Musings on Mortality: It's OK if grief creeps in during holidays

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