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    Considering VSED: voluntarily stopping eating & drinking
    Dina Stander
    • Feb 8, 2021
    • 5 min

    Considering VSED: voluntarily stopping eating & drinking

    A curated selection of videos, information and resources about the decision and experience of VSED at end of life.
    2,602 views2 comments
    Both/And Physics ~ Holding On & Letting Go
    Dina Stander
    • Dec 30, 2020
    • 3 min

    Both/And Physics ~ Holding On & Letting Go

    ... and then figure out how I can best support the peculiar both/and physics of holding on ~ so you can let go.
    120 views0 comments
    How to Leave the Hospital...
    Dina Stander
    • Dec 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    How to Leave the Hospital...

    ... when getting home feels like a matter of life and death.
    219 views0 comments
    As Death Becomes Us
    Dina Stander
    • Sep 11, 2020
    • 5 min

    As Death Becomes Us

    A meditation about our end-of-life is not the same as being our own Endling. Death is a trickster in traveling shoes. We do our best.
    492 views1 comment
    Dancing With the Bones: Distanced Grieving
    Dina Stander
    • Apr 7, 2020
    • 17 min

    Dancing With the Bones: Distanced Grieving

    It is ok not to be ok. We are here to companion distanced grieving because human beings are in crisis... so I took my question to the trees.
    829 views0 comments
    By Donation/Pay As You Can
    Dina Stander
    • Mar 25, 2020
    • 4 min

    By Donation/Pay As You Can

    I made a decision today, based on my commitment to radical kinship. From now on my services are offered for a pay-what-you-can donation.
    110 views0 comments
    Each to their island... March 2020
    Dina Stander
    • Mar 23, 2020
    • 2 min

    Each to their island... March 2020

    There is no normal to retreat to. I stop, sit, take a breath and let it go. Wiggle the toes, accept not knowing, do my best and be here now.
    64 views0 comments
    Companioning the Dying: say what?
    Dina Stander
    • Feb 27, 2020
    • 7 min

    Companioning the Dying: say what?

    However you embrace or wrastle with your own mortality, companioning the dying will bring you (as my own old dead dad would say) toe to toe
    1,857 views1 comment
    A Treatise on EOLDs and Sliding Fee Scales
    Dina Stander
    • Feb 20, 2020
    • 6 min

    A Treatise on EOLDs and Sliding Fee Scales

    In a society that commodifies everything, alternative paradigms will sometimes be considered radical. Welcome to my world, Doula friends!
    948 views0 comments
    The Opportune Moment and the Phone of the Wind:
    Dina Stander
    • Mar 24, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Opportune Moment and the Phone of the Wind:

    There is a deep need many people have to keep the ordinary conversation of life going, even though the person they have this conversation wi
    85 views0 comments

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