I've received numerous notes about (and seen numerous "hits" to) the series "Negotiating Life's End." Many of this series' readers do not otherwise read blogs.  The purpose of this note is simply to say that a blog (web log) reads in reverse chronological order, i.e., to start at the beginning, you need to scroll down to the end for the first post and then read the post immediately above that and the one above that, until you come to the end, which is the beginning. (see Little Gidding below) 

If you'd like to read the series in sections by clicking on links in the usual order -- first to last -- here they are:

Negotiating Life's End 

Negotiating Life's End:  Part Two

Negotiating Life's End:  Part Three

Negotiating Life's End:  A Note of Gratitude for My Friends and Readers

Negotiating Life's End:  Part Four

Negotiating Life's End:  Part Five

Negotiating Life's End:  Part Six

Negotiating Life's End in Mediation?

Negotiating Life's End:  the Coming Crisis and Likelihood of Litigation

The Truth of Departure

For Friends and Family

I Owe it All to Dad

Below, My sister Sharon, Dad, me and my nephew Daniel.

It's very gratifying to find that my own experience can be of some use to others.  Please feel free to use the comments section to share your own stories, dreams, fears, challenges, successes, failures, triumphs, losses and the like associated with the lingering death of a loved one.

Life's far to short not to avail ourselves of the opportunity to create community, particularly when we are most in need of the experience, strength and hope of others who share our predicament.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding, The Four Quartets