Tibetan Perspectives on Death and Dying Draw Large Audience at Minnesota Hospice Symposium

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Reporting on a session of a conference devoted to the science and practice of end-of-life care under the auspices of the state-level Minnesota Network of Hospice & Palliative Care, “friends of Gyuto Wheel of Dharma Monastery”* writes that while in Western medicine, a “good death” is often defined in terms of pain control, symptom management, and patient autonomy, the Tibetan perspective expands that definition to answer the question: what does it mean to prepare for death, offering a coherent framework that places suffering, meaning, and awareness at the center of the human experience.

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