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Daily Connect: Video: Koshin Paley Ellison on Death, Dying and Patients as Teachers
Koshin Paley Ellison, LMSW and Zen Teacher on death, dying and the opportunity to learn from his patients.
"For me it's like a poison for Buddhist practitioners going to work with people in death and dying because we want it to be peaceful and transformative and special, but really, it's a lot about Bob Barker and 'The Price is Right, and you know he's still around -- he's turning that wheel. But, it's a lot about watching that kind of thing with people, or being with them in their rage or their sorrow or their loneliness and not having it have to be something else."
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http://theidproject.org/events/2011/11/09/study-home-approaches-buddhism...
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Koshin film on the dying as teachers
Wow! I'm in my final year of working on an MSW at NYU and interning with a hospice in NJ. Just today a nurse told me that she wrote a script for Paxil for a patient who was depressed and I told her that ,in my humble opinion, he might just need to be allowed to process and feel his feelings -of unresolved grief over the tragic death a year ago of his son, the sudden death two weeksago of a beloved nephew and his own impending death - unmasked by meds. His wife is all for the meds, because she's struggling with her own pain and can't stand to see him suffer.