Tag: bureaucracy

A bit more about how/why advance planning is one of the best things we can do for ourselves…

Rather than have me bang on about the beauty and importance of advance planning, especially Advance Health Care Directives (AHCD), there is a wonderful Guardian article here that is really worth while.

The article is from a UK legal and medical practice perspective, but the essence of why advance planning saves time, effort, grief and heartache is international.

Would you like to have an AHCD in place for yourself? Please do get in touch, I am an End Of Life Doula who specialises in advance planning.

Let’s talk.

An Evening With Me on Dying To Know Day

I will be hosting a local event on the evening of D2KD, August 8th.

Details are available on my Facebook page, tickets available through Eventbrite: https://www.facebook.com/events/194998904462520

 

Sydney to open the first YA hospice

In some ground-breaking news for younger people at End Of Life, the NSW government announced last week that the first young adult hospice will open on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

Big Bear Cottage – you can read about it here – will fill the current Bear Cottage gap; after attaining the majority age of 18 YA persons in need of ongoing support for life-limiting and terminal illnesses have not been able to continue accessing the support Bear Cottage provided when they were younger.

It will be good to see other states and regions following this model – let’s see what happens next for the YA community.

If you would like to better understand your End Of Life options, or need advocacy, support and information for a young (or not-so-young) person please do not hesitate to get in touch. I am an End Of Life Doula who is creative, straight-talking, and happy to help you navigate your options and choices in the way that works best for you.

Let’s talk.

DNR Laws In Effect in Victoria

A new era in End Of Life choice begins in Victoria – there are some details in this article.
 
Are you interested in better understading your own End Of Life options and choices here in NSW? I specialise in advance planning and translating the medical and legal frameworks for community members.
 
I am happy to help you design the End Of Life that works best for you.
 
Let’s talk.

Slow changes to legal processes. The strange resistance to medical marijuana in Australia…

This is an excellent article for those wondering why access to medical cannabis is so horribly, needlessly difficult to attain in Australia.

We are working against an entrenched (and erroneous) myth of marijuana as a ‘gateway’ drug, the lingering damage of a War On Drugs mindset*, and a strong grip on the medical and legal pathways in Australia by pharmaceutical companies.

There is a good deal of evidence-based research available to us from several countries about the help cannabis oil and medical marijuana provides in chronic and End Of Life cases.

If you would like to find out more about your End Of Life choices please feel free to get in touch with me, I am happy to help you better understand your options.

Let’s talk

*Frequently fuelled by religous prejudice as well as widespread public mis-information that dates back to the time of Randolph Hearst wanting to spend a few pennies less for bales of cotton paper to print newspapers rather than hemp paper – free anti-cannabis advertising anyone??! This is really true; therefore Rupert Murdoch is not the only media mogul to do a great disservice to our communities and societies by spreading lies and mistruths in order to further his own business ends (see phone hacking and the Milly Dowler case, for example). But that is probably another blog post for another day…