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Making Peace with Life Through Death, Part 2: Processing

Posted on August 9, 2020November 11, 2022 by Valerie Lovelace

Republished from Death with Dignity National Center. Maine resident Karen Wentworth is the second patient to access the Maine Death with Dignity Act, which went into effect in September 2019. In the second installment of this 3-part series, Karen reads from an essay she wrote after she obtained the death-hasteningCONTINUE READING »

Making Peace with Life Through Death, Part 1: Preparing

Posted on July 19, 2020November 11, 2022 by Valerie Lovelace

Republished from Death with Dignity National Center. Maine resident Karen Wentworth is the second patient to access the Maine Death with Dignity Act, which went into effect in September 2019. In the first installment of this 3-part series, Karen reads from an essay she wrote after she obtainedCONTINUE READING »

From the Board

Posted on June 3, 2020June 6, 2020 by Valerie Lovelace

OUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land we know as the "State of Maine" and "United States of America." We know they and their descendants suffered and continue to suffer in unimaginable ways at the hands of colonialism. We acknowledge that we live, work andCONTINUE READING »

Update: April 2020

Posted on April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 by Valerie Lovelace

I don't know about you, but it feels to me like we are in a time warp. So much has changed recently. With Health Care Decisions Day (April 16) right around the corner and a pandemic in our faces, I am certain of only one thing now: Death.CONTINUE READING »

Update: March 2020

Posted on March 16, 2020April 14, 2020 by Valerie Lovelace

As we all make plans to hunker down over the next several weeks while we in Maine do our part to slow the spread of Covid-19, I wanted to check in with a brief update. Maine's Death with Dignity Act is bringing comfort to patients in our state, justCONTINUE READING »

Emil Landau Human Rights Forum 2015

Posted on October 18, 2015June 7, 2023 by Valerie Lovelace

Skidompha Library’s 2015 Emil Landau Forum examined important end-of-life issues and options with a presentation titled, “How Do I Own My Own Death?” Executive Director Val Lovelace spoke to a group of over 80 attendees.