Session 1:

Topics covered include:
- What is compassion? Compassion for ourselves & compassion for others
- Dealing with change, a source of pain
- Physical, psychological & spiritual changes that occur as one approaches death; phases in the dying process
- Our tendency to want to "fix" things
Part I [24 min] : Download | Listen
Part II [14 min] : Download | Listen
Part III [21 min] : Download | Listen

Question & Answer: Use of morphine & procedures for the dying, communication between the dying and the caregiver, denial, euthanasia, handling abusive patients, etc.
Part I [20 min] : Download | Listen
Part II [19 min] : Download | Listen

Session 2:

Topics covered include:
- The nature of death; people's notions of "good" diseases, "bad" diseases, "good" deaths, "bad" deaths.
- Value of thinking about death & the significance of death for living a good life. [25 min] : Download | Listen

Question & Answer: How to "clean up" unfinished business, compassion & co-dependency, giving to beggars, the "right to die" movement, etc.
Part I [18 min] : Download | Listen
Part II [22 min] : Download | Listen

Session 3:

The nature of grief (There's a voice in the background for the first 4 1/2 minutes of the talk. Please ignore that.)
[17 min] : Download | Listen

Question & Answer: Handling the death of a patient as a caregiver, grieving from guilt, grieving for the future, explaining death to a child, how Ven. Chodron got on the Buddhist path, how Lee Paton became a hospice nurse, etc.
Part I [17 min] : Download | Listen
Part II [19 min] : Download | Listen