Covid19: End-of-Life Choices

At least 67,000 individuals have died of Covid19 in the US and 244K worldwide so far. Each death is a family’s grief. How do we advocate for ourselves, each other? Palliative care = feeling less miserable. Have you discussed end-of-life and palliative care with your family? Do it now.

Proem

the way i become about dying

Michael P. Funk 2002

i am not things.

i am sum of things,

guessing that i’m part of God,

wondering if there’s some place

where my soul will go

from where I might look down

with advantages my eyes did not have

and see the tops of trees

which I used to walk beneath for

shelter from rain and sun,

and see the way things go together

like continental tracts of land

punctuated by water and lights

and roads and other concrete artifaces

I am, this very moment dying

from headache tumors that

erase my cognitive ability so that I might