I won the book on a Facebook contest, created by Dr. Weinstein. He asked what kind of ethical dilemma had we faced at work, and how did we handled it?

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I was struck by a statement in Tom Brokaw’s new book called A Lucky Life Interrupted and the quote is by Jesse Jackson.

“The rich are all about living and the poor are all about dying.”

This, of course, points to the inequities of our healthcare system Obama Care or no Obama Care. Obamacare is delivered by health insurance delivery systems which is a backward way to deliver healthcare.

Every other civilized country in the world has Single Payer. And their economic system flows much better as a result, serving all the people, not just the rich.

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Apparently, Tom Brokaw was diagnosed with a serious form of Melanoma over this past year. He wrote a memoir called My Lucky Life Interrupted. The book is a reflection of his experiences confronting his own mortality.

Do these terms truly describe the true mystery of life? Yet the term mortality zone got my attention and I wanted to think about it.

In the Judeo Christian tradition, immortality can only be achieved by accepting Jesus Christ as your savior. That is about as suffocating a definition as any I’ve ever considered.

In spiritual thought traditions, immortality is a birthright and a death right. It is a consciousness that exists beyond what we are experiencing in this present moment. Yet the present moment is the only thing that exists. If mortality exist in the future, is it possible that immortality is the only thing that exists in this present moment?

This is what today’s podcast is all about.

1) Fearing Death

2) Denying Death

3) Defying Death

4) Grieving Death

5) Accepting Death

6) Liberation In The Face Of Death

Today’s podcast goes into all of these. I thank Joan Halifax and her book called Being with Dying, as one of the greatest books written on these topics.

Then we walked around and visited Tom’s family and their tombstones. Tom knew every single person buried in that cemetery.

This reminded me of the time I went to a cemetery with my parents. They pointed out tombstones and remembered galavanting with people in the home town of Lancaster PA. They told story after story of nearly everyone in that cemetery. Dad said, “Remember Charlie?” and went on to talk about the experiences they had with that person.

It was like walking in a different time zone. It was the first time I felt like my parents in that cemetery so many years ago.

For some reason, we could not find cousin Gregory. And then we realized we had parked in a lot of people and we had to leave.

The funeral was in Littlestown Pa, where my husband grew up. “The town that time forgot,” is how our kids describe it. Yet that’s what it’s like in a cemetery, too. Time does not exist in those places. You are transported to another dimension.

I realized today that Tom’s dad passed a mere seven months after my dad, on July 7, 2001. I knew it at the time, then forgot. Seeing those dates inscribed on stone helped me remember.

Today’s podcast is me walking around the Lancaster County Park smelling for chemical pesticides and Round Up because my nose is extraordinarily sensitive.

Unfortunately, as I came down the last part of a beautiful trail, I did smell that same sickening sweet weedkiller. There are no postings anywhere that these chemicals are being used.

There is a non-GMO rally all across the country on May 25, 2015. Check it out in your area and get involved. The aim of our non-GMO group here in Lancaster Pennsylvania is to make Lancaster GMO free by the year asap.

Listen in and enjoy.

I caught up with a park ranger, who was holding a box turtle, getting ready to set her free.

I used the turtle to make my point about the delicate balance of nature, and how no chemicals should be used in the park at all.

That’s what today’s podcast is about.

We discussed LinkedIn as the go to place for professionals of all persuasions, Nursing included.

So I ramble today on the podcast about my conversation with Elizabeth and about nurses working for the good of all, and all the wonderful things in between. 

Enjoy

I could not help but notice the similarities between an auction and the auctioneering off of our healthcare system, all because America doesn’t have a Single Payer System. Any other system by comparison is suboptimal.

I continue to enjoy Elizabeth Scala’s Art Of Nursing. Her guests are super aligned with the changes which must take place in nursing and healthcare. 

When healthcare becomes a political issue as we see in Washington and on the state level, patients are the ones who suffer. And everybody else who takes care of them suffer, as well, all because our political system is the laughingstock of the world.

Enjoy the podcast!