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The Compassionate Friends is asking families around the world to join them in a special memorial candlelighting in honor of all children who have died. It will be held on Sunday, December 14, 1997, and annually hereafter, on the second Sunday in December. Candles will be lit at 7:00 p.m., and as candles burn down in one time zone, they will be lit in the next, so that candles will be burning in memory of the children for the entire day of December 14. If you are a webmaster, join this movement, check out the Compassionate Friends website for info on how you can post details at your site and link in with the graphic.
For nurses, a wonderful online article by Joyce V. Zerwekh, EDD, MA, BSN entitled Do Dying Patients Really Need IV Fluids?. Explore the pros and cons of artificial hydration and discover how much you may be helping or hindering your patients.
A special show premiered on April 22, 1997, on PBS. Before I Die is a one-hour special presented by Fred Friendly Seminars and Thirteen/WNET in New York, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It is hosted by Tim Russert, anchor for MEET THE PRESS, is moderated by Professor Arthur Miller of Harvard University Law School. It features a distinguished panel of experts who engage in a dramatic discussion about the end-of-life situations facing Americans every day. Check out this website for dates/times it will be aired - some in September 1997!
The January 2nd 1997 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has an excellent editorial by Kathleen Foley MD entitled Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide. Recommended for health professionals and lay persons alike.
Attention: Physicians, nurses and other health professionals! You are strongly encouraged to visit the Project on Death in America site. The goal of the Project on Death in America is "to understand and transform the forces that have created and now sustain the current culture of dying. To this end, the project supports epidemiological, ethnographic, and historical research and other programs that illuminate the social and medical contexts of dying and grieving." Funded by the philanthropist George Soros, this project has grant funds available for the study of death and dying and is a *must see* web site. Thank you, Dr Paul Rousseau, for bringing this project to my attention!
Attn: NURSES! There are CEU's (Continuing Education Units) available ONLINE for nurses on death or dying related topics from SpringHouse Corporation's SpringNet site.
- Go to their CE Connection page
- Look for the following articles:
  MAY 1997 * Organ Transplants: Tackling the Tough Ethical Questions
  APRIL 1997 * Advance Directives: Honoring your patient's end-of-life wishes
  APRIL 1997 * Caring for a Patient with Colon Cancer
  OCTOBER 1996 * A Woman's Cancer: Straight Talk About Breast Cancer
  OCTOBER 1996 * A Woman's Cancer: When Ovarian Cancer Strikes
  OCTOBER 1996 * Primary Care Diagnosis and Pharmacologic Treatment of Depression in Adults
  JULY 1996 * Helping families cope with death and dying
  They also offer the SpringHouse Reference Library with access to RNdex, with bibliographic data and abstracts on over 30,000 articles from nursing journals. Try a search for death/grief! Thanks SpringHouse!
An interesting article on Buddhism and Suicide from the Journal of Buddhist Ethics. Written by Damien Keown from the University of London, Goldsmiths. Helpful to those exploring the cultural and spiritual perspectives of death. Follow the link via BACK ISSUES and go to VOLUME 3, 1996 and look for the article by by Damien Keown.

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