What Death Taught Me About How to Live

Posted By Talon Windwalker on 6 Jul 2012 in Musings | 73 comments

For almost a decade I’ve been Death’s companion in some form, and for at least three decades I’ve been exposed to it in some intimate way.  Nine years ago I began my “second career” training to become a healthcare chaplain and immediately knew I wanted to work with death and dying.  Yes, I’m strange.  I can own that.  I’ve helped people come into the world, and I’ve been a witness to...