7 Preparing for Death

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Introduction and Overview

Aims: What We Want to Achieve

Who We Are

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Admission

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Preparing for Death

• Audio/Video Recordings
• Documents for Dying
• Visiting the Dying
• Pain & Suffering
• Dying & Death
• Preparing to Die
• Bardo & Next Life

The Buddhist Connection

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Preparing for Death

Documents for Dying

• Documents for Dying – Introduction
• Summaries of Five Documents for Dying

Visiting the Dying

• Visiting Those Dying & in Pain
• Create a Conducive Environment for a Peaceful Death
• Care for the Dying
• Entering a Strange Forest
• Practical and Spiritual Actions on Visits to the Dying
• Christmas Gifts for Those with Dementia
• Helping the Dying a Big Responsibility

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Pain & Suffering

• Coping with Pain
• Responding to the Suffering of Others
• Fear, Stress & Anxiety
• 20 Non-Medical Ways to Help You Cope with Pain & Suffering
• Medical Aspects of Pain Control
• Tibetan Medicine in Brief
• Euthanasia

Dying & Death

• A Dignified Death?
• Facing Death
• We Must Prepare for Death
• The Nine-Point Death Meditation
• What will happen to me in my Last Weeks of Life
• What will happen to me As I Die
• Unfinished Business
• The Meaning of Life
• The Medicine Buddha
• How My Karma at Death Propel’s Me to a New Life

Preparing to Die

• Compassion – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• How attachment arises from ignorance
• Cutting Off Attachment
• Attachment versus Love

Bardo & Next Life

• What will happen to me After I Die
• The Three Death Bardos

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