Great site - this info is great! Looking forward to reading the rest….

Deanna, I loved your session at Remarkable Women. I did a blog post on my blog at WomenBloom: http://womenbloom.blogspot.com/2008/06/midwives-and-doulas-to-dying.html

I’d like to help spread the word on this any way I can.

Allison

Here’s what people have to say about PIG CANDY:

“Funderburg’s elegant story packs an emotional punch, and while there are several heartbreaking turns, it may well be one of the most hopeful books you’ll read this year.” — Patrik Henry Bass, Essence

“If you’re after a memoir pure and simple—a life exposed with intelligence and feeling—you could hardly do better than Pig Candy (Free Press, $24), in which Lise Funderburg takes us down to Monticello, Ga. (pop. 2,500), the place her father, a light-skinned black man, had escaped from, the place he came back to in his prosperous late middle age. The story is built around her father’s attachment to his 126-acre farm—an attachment that grows stronger even as metastasized prostate cancer weakens him. Pig Candy—the title refers to barbecued pork—wears its somber themes lightly. Yes, it’s about mortality, race and filial duty, but Ms. Funderburg never lectures, never preaches, never prettifies. She unspools her story with quiet candor and an unpretentious faith in the significance of what she has to say.” — Adam Begley, The New York Observer

“A candid and moving memoir of a daughter’s deep love for her father both when he is most difficult to love and impossible not to. Unforgettable and powerful, we are changed for the better by every page of it.”

— Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying

“With Pig Candy, Lise Funderburg has used her considerable powers—of private observation, of social empathy, and of historical imagination—to transform an already gripping personal narrative into an overwhelming parable about race, family, and mortality. A wonderful book.” —Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

“With a daughter’s compassion and a journalist’s precision, Lise Funderburg recounts the final years of her father’s life on his farm in Georgia. But Pig Candy is more than simply the story of George Newton Funderburg. It’s an extraordinary portrait of how a difficult place shapes a man, how a daughter loves a challenging father, and how the act of remembering even the most painful aspects of our personal and collective histories can make us whole.” —Bliss Broyard, author of ONE DROP: My Father’s Hidden Life–A Story of Race & Family Secrets

Thank you for your consideration of PIG CANDY,

Delia Raab-Snyder

info@pigcandyonline.com

For press requests or review copies: Nicole.Kalian@simonandschuster.com

It’s called 203 Days.
You can view it in its entirety at the following University of Connecticut website along with a study guide.

http://fitsweb.uchc.edu/Days/days.html

It is an unflinching look at the day-to-day interactions between patient and caregiver, in this case an 89 year old woman who is living with her daughter.

203 Days recently won the First Place 2007 Film Award from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

If you’d like more information please go to my website

http://bbarash.com/bb_203days.htm

I hope this film is helpful to people who want to know more about some of the most common experiences for caregiver and patient at this difficult time.

Sincerely,
Bailey Barash

Thanks for this great article and highlighting the very real issue of mortality and estate planning. It is clear that we all need to be more proactive in the planning of our affairs.

I agree with the notion that keeping your passwords in a safe and accessible place within your house is a good rule of thumb. My wife and I share a common repository for this. Every new password we create is automatically stored there so in the event that one of us gets hit by a bus, the other knows exactly where to go to manage all our online accounts.

http://www.internetpasswordorganizer.com/

Eric Hundin

Robert Michel