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Life and Death Issues - A Search For Something Better For The Dying Process
Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, and Isadora Rosenbaum, MA

A Search For Something Better For The Dying Process
Choices In Preparing For Your Mortality
An Ethical Will

Advanced Directive
Decisions For Making Life Easier For Those You Love! - The Legacy of Love
Medical Emergency Information - A Simple Card
Conclusion - Life and Death



How you live will have a major effect on your health and your life. Not only your attitude but your activities can promote better health. Enhancing and enriching your quality of life will heighten your emotional experiences and reduce depression. By blending enjoyable activities, there is an increased pleasure in our daily living. By encouraging happiness, there are positive physiologic effects.

What are the ingredients of how you can best fight for your life by using willpower to interact with one's fate?

Courage, hope, faith, sympathy, and love promote health and prolong life.
A contented mind, a cheerful spirit is health to the body and strength to the soul.
A merry rejoicing, heart doeth good like a medicine.
Proverbs 17:22
Hope
We all hope for a better tomorrow when today's problems will be solved. Hope is said to spring eternal, but under the relentless daily fight for survival with an aggressive disease, hope may be deadened or crushed. When hope is lost, only depression and fear with the loss of the human spirit remain. Fortunately, every new day, new hope can be created to help each person continually try to alter their fate.

Love and Support
Without the support of those you love and who love you, life is not only shallow but lonely, and there is often a feeling of desperation. With love and support, a person has a better chance to cope and fight so that with luck and good fortune, one's fate can be turned around. By treatment, one hopes to gain a remission or an improvement in one's state of illness to achieving a recovery and returning to active daily living or just living with a better quality of life.

Courage
To fight for a cure, palliation, or in facing death, courage is critical. As one continues the fight against illness and death, it takes a lot of courage and stamina to persist, as so often there are rejections, failures, and defeats. One needs to continually strive to continue the fight, where renewal of one's courage and efforts are essential; otherwise, one may give up too soon when success might be achieved with additional efforts.

Faith
Only by keeping up one's faith can one succeed in gaining the most out of life. The final results of how we enrich our spirit is through our actions. By using positive measures, we can promote success.

Choose life - only that and always, and at whatever risk. To let life leak out, to let it wear away by the mere passage of time, to withhold giving it and spreading it, is to choose nothing.
Sister Helen Kelly

A Search For Something Better For The Dying Process
Choices In Preparing For Your Mortality
An Ethical Will

An Advanced Directive
Decisions For Making Life Easier For Those You Love! - The Legacy of Love
Medical Emergency Information - A Simple Card
Conclusion - Life and Death




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