“What’s so important about saying it out load?” I was asked a few months ago during a Q&A session at the end of one of my presentations that talked about “creating an organic legacy.” Good question I replied. What is so important about trying to get our aging parents to speak openly to us about the story of their lives? The short answer is “in the nick of time” insights.

My wife Janet shared with me a very moving article about end of life conversations from a doctor’s perspective entitled: Talking Frankly at the End of Life. Here is the link.

A woman in her early sixties was dying of a terminal illness. Her parents were gone, which left a younger sister as her only means of family support. But there was long standing disagreements between the sisters that had left them distant and disconnected. Now the younger sister was struggling to do her best to help her older sister but was feeling frustrated, unappreciated, angry, and guilty. “What should the younger sister do?” a friend of the family asked me. It was a good question I had not considered before.

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If you had a word to describe your feelings about diabetes, what would it be?
That’s the question that the folks behind the Diabetes Handprint initiative want to know. They are asking everyone to create a virtual handprint that has the word you’d like to use to help bring awareness to diabetes. In exchange for every virtual handprint made, they will give $5 to one of two diabetic charities.

With the recent death of Sylvia Plath’s son, the question of inherited suicide has been once again raised in the news. A recent article at CNN says that a “first-degree relative — a parent, sibling or child — of a person who has committed suicide is four to six times more likely to attempt or complete a suicide” themselves.

Doctors get a bad rep sometimes. Because of the high cost of health care in the United States, doctors can be an easy target. Yes, some medical procedures may be pricier than they need be and some doctors are in it for as much money as they can get, but I’d be willing to be that they’re in the minority.

If you thought Tuberculosis (TB) is something you no longer can get, think again. The disease is still deadly and according to one article, “killing millions worldwide.” In the state of Indiana alone, there were 118 active cases last year.

Robin Williams underwent heart surgery on March 13th, which included replacing the aortic valve and repairing the mitral valve.  The 57-year-old comedian is reportedly doing very well.

It’s a bone that no-one thinks that much about unless you break it or you’re staring in the mirror and you think it sticks out too much: your collar bone. Today, Tour de France winner seven times over, Lance Armstrong, is thinking about his collar bone more than he ever did before, I’m sure.