Let's Talk About Death | Rochelle Martin | TEDxKingStWomen
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2015
- There is a 'Momentum' going on with all of us, with every breath, with every heart beat, we are moving closer to our end.
Better is possible. We can die and care for our dead better. We can face our cultural alienation from death head-on, and it starts with love - of our family and friends, of our communities, and of our earth.
Rochelle Martin is a Registered Nurse with specialty certification in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Toronto, and has experience in emergency and acute psychiatry, palliative care, and spiritual care.
Certified as a Death Midwife and Home Funeral-Care Guide, Rochelle teaches individuals, families, and professional and community groups, about death-related care. In her work as a crisis-care RN, she supports families immediately following the sudden death of a loved one in ER.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Talking yourself to not fear it still doesn’t completely remove the fear once it becomes a closer reality.
We live longer than ever but mostly we live longer in declining health and disability.
Putting a casket in the ground just never made sense. I think the body in the soil is better because it breaks down.
"We save forests by planting ourselves". One of the greatest ideas I've ever heard.
Embalming is just a terrible thing. Nobody should be doing that anymore.
I don't think this new generation will want to do home funerals, cause they are always thinking about themselves and this is all about their loved one. We have to change that first. Thanks Rochelle,
It is said that all life originated in the oceans. Why not let the oceans be our funeral casket? Would that not be more environmentally friendly and truly complete the cycle of the origin of life by returning our very matter to the place from whence it historically began?
I don't know if we can know ahead of time whether we want DNR status or not. Years before her death, my mother was strongly opposed to DNR, but a representative from her hospital managed to talk her into it. But if my mother had known what her death would be like, I think she would have chosen more intervention. Her last words to me were loud and clear: "I don't want to die!" Those words haunt me. I had no power to save her. I still don't know if she was conscious trapped inside her paralyzed body for those last 9 days in inexpressible agony and misery and terror listening to people talking right in front of her about her coming death. I think we need to learn a lot more about death before we can have a clue how to improve the experience, but at least could we not talk about their death in the presence of their still-living but unresponsive bodies, just in case?
Now, 7 years later, in Canada, you now have medically assisted dying. Only a few states in the US. Wow. I didn't know that about cremation.
What a wonderful and compassionate talk. Right up my end of life doula street. It matters how we die - not just for the dying person. How we die lives on in all who survive us.
you are a thoughtful person. one notch below soylent green.
NHFA member Rochelle Martin sums up beautifully this burgeoning move toward sustainable and authentic death and after-death care in this fabulous TEDx talk - one of the best explanations and most moving pleas - don't miss it!
She did an awesome job. Thanks for the talk
True and so important.
What a wonderful talk! One of the best I've heard. Thank you.
Amazing talk, Rochelle. Thank you! I plan to show this at the workshop I am teaching on End-of-life doula care and home funeral.
Brilliant talk thank you so much!
Excellent! I agree entirely!
Thank you
Enlightening !!!