3 MAY 2024 · Last Doctors is a new podcast series in the Voices of the Completed Life where we will share conversations with physicians who listen to and care for patients in the last chapters of their lives – when a cure is no longer in sight and the comfort and dignity of the patient becomes the physician’s primary focus. Dr. Jean Marmoreo, a Canadian physician and author, has helpfully called these remarkable people our “last doctors,” which is the inspiration for the title of our series. This episode features an interview with Dr. Jean Mormareo as she discusses her book, The Last Doctor: Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying. New episodes coming May 10 and 17 will feature Dr. Christian Ntizimira, a Palliative Care Physician from Rwanda, and Dr. Peter Reagan, a Family Practice Physician who was the first to write a prescription for MAiD medications in Oregon in 1998. If you would like to share a response to this episode, please feel free to reach out to us on our social media platforms. Additionally, if you would like to share your story of a Completed Life on our podcasts, whether for yourself or a loved one, please reach out to us via email at https://completedlife.org/. https://www.youtube.com/@thecompletedlifeinitiative/podcasts ------- Follow the Completed Life Initiative: -https://linktr.ee/completedlife -https://www.facebook.com/completedlifeinitiative -https://www.instagram.com/completedlifeinitiative/ -https://www.threads.net/@completedlifeinitiative -https://twitter.com/completedlife -https://www.linkedin.com/company/completed-life-initiative/

5 APR 2024 · In this latest episode, our hosts reflect on the word, “Mgbalu." Lexicon of Life and Death is a new podcast series where https://completedlife.org/staff/lynn-barger-elliott/ and https://completedlife.org/staff/mark-barger-elliott/ will explore the vocabulary we employ to express beliefs, hopes and attitudes towards life and death. While asking what it means to live a completed life, they will probe ways that language guides us towards embracing full and whole moments in our lives. As we come into the world, we inherit language to interpret and to express our experiences and emotions. Language evolves as the world changes – evidenced by the 690 new English words Merriam-Webster added to the dictionary last year. Language can also limit our abilities to interact with and to describe the world we inhabit. As the poet Jane Hirschfield once observed, as humans, we attempt to explain something that already exists fully, on its own, without words. If you would like to share a response to this episode, please feel free to reach out to us on our social media platforms. Additionally, if you would like to share your story of a Completed Life on our podcasts, whether for yourself or a loved one, please reach out to us via email at https://completedlife.org/. https://www.youtube.com/@thecompletedlifeinitiative/podcasts ------- Follow the Completed Life Initiative: -https://linktr.ee/completedlife -https://www.facebook.com/completedlifeinitiative -https://www.instagram.com/completedlifeinitiative/ -https://www.threads.net/@completedlifeinitiative -https://twitter.com/completedlife -https://www.linkedin.com/company/completed-life-initiative/

22 MAR 2024 · In this latest episode, our hosts reflect on the word, “Transplant." Lexicon of Life and Death is a new podcast series where https://completedlife.org/staff/lynn-barger-elliott/ and https://completedlife.org/staff/mark-barger-elliott/ will explore the vocabulary we employ to express beliefs, hopes and attitudes towards life and death. While asking what it means to live a completed life, they will probe ways that language guides us towards embracing full and whole moments in our lives. As we come into the world, we inherit language to interpret and to express our experiences and emotions. Language evolves as the world changes – evidenced by the 690 new English words Merriam-Webster added to the dictionary last year. Language can also limit our abilities to interact with and to describe the world we inhabit. As the poet Jane Hirschfield once observed, as humans, we attempt to explain something that already exists fully, on its own, without words. If you would like to share a response to this episode, please feel free to reach out to us on our social media platforms. Additionally, if you would like to share your story of a Completed Life on our podcasts, whether for yourself or a loved one, please reach out to us via email at https://completedlife.org/. https://www.youtube.com/@thecompletedlifeinitiative/podcasts ------- Follow the Completed Life Initiative: -https://linktr.ee/completedlife -https://www.facebook.com/completedlifeinitiative -https://www.instagram.com/completedlifeinitiative/ -https://www.threads.net/@completedlifeinitiative -https://twitter.com/completedlife -https://www.linkedin.com/company/completed-life-initiative/

15 MAR 2024 · In this episode, our hosts discuss the word "Suerza" – a combination of the Spanish words for luck and force: suerta and fuerza. It was coined by the author John Koenig in his book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Lexicon of Life and Death is a new podcast series where https://completedlife.org/staff/lynn-barger-elliott/ and https://completedlife.org/staff/mark-barger-elliott/ will explore the vocabulary we employ to express beliefs, hopes and attitudes towards life and death. While asking what it means to live a completed life, they will probe ways that language guides us towards embracing full and whole moments in our lives. As we come into the world, we inherit language to interpret and to express our experiences and emotions. Language evolves as the world changes – evidenced by the 690 new English words Merriam-Webster added to the dictionary last year. Language can also limit our abilities to interact with and to describe the world we inhabit. As the poet Jane Hirschfield once observed, as humans, we attempt to explain something that already exists fully, on its own, without words. If you would like to share a response to this episode, please feel free to reach out to us on our social media platforms. Additionally, if you would like to share your story of a Completed Life on our podcasts, whether for yourself or a loved one, please reach out to us via email at https://completedlife.org/. https://www.youtube.com/@thecompletedlifeinitiative/podcasts ------- Follow the Completed Life Initiative: -https://linktr.ee/completedlife -https://www.facebook.com/completedlifeinitiative -https://www.instagram.com/completedlifeinitiative/ -https://www.threads.net/@completedlifeinitiative -https://twitter.com/completedlife -https://www.linkedin.com/company/completed-life-initiative/

8 MAR 2024 · Welcome to Lexicon of Life & Death, a new podcast series from the Completed Life Initiative. In this series, https://completedlife.org/staff/lynn-barger-elliott/ and https://completedlife.org/staff/mark-barger-elliott/ will explore the vocabulary we employ to express beliefs, hopes and attitudes towards life and death. While asking what it means to live a completed life, they will probe ways that language guides us towards embracing full and whole moments in our lives. In this first episode, our hosts discuss the Finnish word, "Sisu," which literally translates to "guts" or "intestines" – but is informed by political and cultural history to carry much more meaning. As we come into the world, we inherit language to interpret and to express our experiences and emotions. Language evolves as the world changes – evidenced by the 690 new English words Merriam-Webster added to the dictionary last year. Language can also limit our abilities to interact with and to describe the world we inhabit. As the poet Jane Hirschfield once observed, as humans, we attempt to explain something that already exists fully, on its own, without words. If you would like to share a response to this episode, please feel free to reach out to us on our social media platforms. Additionally, if you would like to share your story of a Completed Life on our podcasts, whether for yourself or a loved one, please reach out to us via email at https://completedlife.org/. https://www.youtube.com/@thecompletedlifeinitiative/podcasts ------- Follow the Completed Life Initiative: -https://linktr.ee/completedlife -https://www.facebook.com/completedlifeinitiative -https://www.instagram.com/completedlifeinitiative/ -https://www.threads.net/@completedlifeinitiative -https://twitter.com/completedlife -https://www.linkedin.com/company/completed-life-initiative/

23 FEB 2024 · Welcome back to Gifts of the Completed Life: Transitions and Transformations. In this episode, Executive Producer Lynn Barger Elliott reflects upon transformations - when we no longer find ourselves in that in-between space. Inspired by the works of Rebecca Solnit and Eric Carle, this episode considers the gift of "instarring" and what emerges on the other side of life's transitions. Gifts of the Completed Life will include reflections and interviews with authors, artists, physicians and philosophers who help us explore the many ways of answering, “What is a Completed Life?” This series will be hosted by our https://completedlife.org/lynn-barger-elliott/, and will highlight voices from our staff. If you would like to share a response to this episode, please feel free to reach out to us on our social media platforms. Additionally, if you would like to share your story of a Completed Life on our podcasts, whether for yourself or a loved one, please reach out to us via email at https://completedlife.org/. https://www.youtube.com/@thecompletedlifeinitiative/podcasts ------- Follow the Completed Life Initiative: -https://linktr.ee/completedlife -https://www.facebook.com/completedlifeinitiative -https://www.instagram.com/completedlifeinitiative/ -https://www.threads.net/@completedlifeinitiative -https://twitter.com/completedlife -https://www.linkedin.com/company/completed-life-initiative/

14 FEB 2024 · Welcome to this special Valentine's Day episode of Voices of the Completed Life. In this episode, we will hear the “voice” of New York Times-Bestselling Author of In Love, Amy Bloom – from our 4th Annual Fall Conference – with additional commentary by Executive Producer, Lynn Barger Elliott. Voices of the Completed Life will highlight the lives and work of those who are exploring End of Life options. If you would like to share a response to this episode, please feel free to reach out to us on our social media platforms. Additionally, if you would like to share your story of a Completed Life on our podcasts, whether for yourself or a loved one, please reach out to us via email at https://completedlife.org/. https://www.youtube.com/@thecompletedlifeinitiative/podcasts ------- Follow the Completed Life Initiative: -https://linktr.ee/completedlife -https://www.facebook.com/completedlifeinitiative -https://www.instagram.com/completedlifeinitiative/ -https://www.threads.net/@completedlifeinitiative -https://twitter.com/completedlife -https://www.linkedin.com/company/completed-life-initiative/

9 FEB 2024 · Welcome back to Gifts of the Completed Life: Transitions and Transformations. In this episode, we explore the external and internal signs, and the “complete moments,” that indicate it is time to leave the “in-between spaces” of our lives. Gifts of the Completed Life will include reflections and interviews with authors, artists, physicians and philosophers who help us explore the many ways of answering, “What is a Completed Life?” This series will be hosted by our https://completedlife.org/lynn-barger-elliott/, and will highlight voices from our staff. If you would like to share a response to this episode, please feel free to reach out to us on our social media platforms. Additionally, if you would like to share your story of a Completed Life on our podcasts, whether for yourself or a loved one, please reach out to us via email at https://completedlife.org/. https://www.youtube.com/@thecompletedlifeinitiative/podcasts ------- Follow the Completed Life Initiative: -https://linktr.ee/completedlife -https://www.facebook.com/completedlifeinitiative -https://www.instagram.com/completedlifeinitiative/ -https://www.threads.net/@completedlifeinitiative -https://twitter.com/completedlife -https://www.linkedin.com/company/completed-life-initiative/

2 FEB 2024 · Welcome back to Gifts of the Completed Life: Transitions and Transformations. In this episode we discuss Visions, Perfume, and How the Heart Heals, by continuing to explore “in-between spaces" – and specifically the liminal space between life and death. Gifts of the Completed Life will include reflections and interviews with authors, artists, physicians and philosophers who help us explore the many ways of answering, “What is a Completed Life?” This series will be hosted by our https://completedlife.org/lynn-barger-elliott/, and will highlight voices from our staff. If you would like to share a response to this episode, please feel free to reach out to us on our social media platforms. Additionally, if you would like to share your story of a Completed Life on our podcasts, whether for yourself or a loved one, please reach out to us via email at https://completedlife.org/. https://www.youtube.com/@thecompletedlifeinitiative/podcasts ------- Follow the Completed Life Initiative: -https://linktr.ee/completedlife -https://www.facebook.com/completedlifeinitiative -https://www.instagram.com/completedlifeinitiative/ -https://www.threads.net/@completedlifeinitiative -https://twitter.com/completedlife -https://www.linkedin.com/company/completed-life-initiative/

29 JAN 2024 · Welcome to a new Gifts of the Completed Life podcast series – Transitions and Transformations. Join us as we begin with In Between the Tides, an exploration of the “in-between spaces” that we experience in our families, health, workplaces, and relationships. These are transitions that can be unsettling, challenging, and yet, there are also gifts that can be discovered in that space between where we were – where we are – and where we are going. Gifts of the Completed Life will include reflections and interviews with authors, artists, physicians and philosophers who help us explore the many ways of answering, “What is a Completed Life?” This series will be hosted by our https://completedlife.org/lynn-barger-elliott/, and will highlight voices from our staff. If you would like to share a response to this episode, please feel free to reach out to us on our social media platforms. Additionally, if you would like to share your story of a Completed Life on our podcasts, whether for yourself or a loved one, please reach out to us via email at https://completedlife.org/. https://www.youtube.com/@thecompletedlifeinitiative/podcasts ------- Follow the Completed Life Initiative: -https://linktr.ee/completedlife -https://www.facebook.com/completedlifeinitiative -https://www.instagram.com/completedlifeinitiative/ -https://www.threads.net/@completedlifeinitiative -https://twitter.com/completedlife -https://www.linkedin.com/company/completed-life-initiative/