What Happens When Someone We Love Dies?

By Uma Girish | March 10, 2015
when we die

What happens when someone we love dies? When my mother transitioned in 2009, I struggled on many levels. But the most challenging aspect was the loss of her physicality. One moment she was here. And gone the next. She had vanished into nothingness. How did she leave? Where did she go? The thought that she…

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Comforting Someone Who is Dying

By umagirish | April 23, 2013
lessons from the dying

Judith Redwing Keyssar is so much more than her impressive credentials. She is someone who is comfortable with death and dying, and is great at comforting someone who is dying. As Director of the Palliative and End-of-Life Care at Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the San Francisco Bay Area, she assists people through this…

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