Denise Carson writes the Parting Ways Column in the Orange County Register where she explores how individuals, families and communities are reinventing their role in life’s final frontier to celebrate memories, traditions and legacies with new personalized rituals that turn the alienation at the end of life into a celebration.
She receives the most amazing emails from readers about how thankful and refreshed they are to read such inspiring stories in the newspaper. Below are some of the links:
Cleaning Out My Mother’s Closet
A Living Tribute For Bill Before He Goes
Recording Her Life Stories on Video
Students Turn Her Stories Into a Life Movie
Music Therapy: A Jam Session at the Deathbed
The Last Holiday with Mom, Passing on Traditions
Volunteer Keeps Vigil With Dying Woman
Memory Pillows: The Afterlife of Clothes
He’s Celebrating Life in Hospice
Book Celebration Illuminates End-of-Life Lessons
Dying Woman Reveals Gangster Secret
Granddaughter Glad to Know Gangster Past
Kelly Thomas’ Mom Celebrates His Life
At 105, She Soars in a Big Balloon
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