by KimBoo York | Jan 29, 2013 | Mourning
“So why do we prepare ourselves for birth and death so differently? Largely because birth is good news and death is not.” This line captivated me. It’s in Planning a Funeral? Why Information Is Power at HuffPost. And it’s true, of course…but it hasn’t always been this...
by KimBoo York | Jan 14, 2013 | Podcast
Wow, it’s been a while. For such a short book, it’s taking me forever to podcast it. #FAIL But here you go, the latest of it. This is the chapter “Myths and History” which was actually one of the very first things I wrote related to Grieving...
by KimBoo York | Jan 10, 2013 | PSA
The Skeptic’s Inspirational, which is my ongoing series of daily positive, inspirational quotes and thoughts for skeptics of all stripes, has been moved to its own page: Skeptic’s Inspirational. I stopped it for a while because I thought the daily posts...
by KimBoo York | Jan 7, 2013 | Atheism, Grief
One reaction mourners get when admitting to atheism or any form of non-deism is the incredulous, well-meaning but slightly accusatory, “How can you live with the idea that it was all just pointless?” Better critics than I have unpacked the ridiculousness...
by KimBoo York | Jan 3, 2013 | Grief, Mourning
I am hitting the 20 year mark for my mother’s death. In the spring of 1993, she was diagnosed with fatal colon-rectal cancer. She had already been in pain and bleeding for nearly a year. She did not go seek medical help earlier because she believed we...
