Disempowerment is wishing for something that no longer exists. Empowerment is to fully integrate past and present with possibilities.

Social Intelligence is the New Green

Change is in the air.

Climate change is in the air.

Global warming is in the air.

Seeing further than what is imaginable.

Seeing beyond my fear of the future.

Life as usual becomes arrogance.

Sometimes when my filters are down and I hear about another catastrophic event such as the intentional burning of vast Amazonian Forest sectors for cattle grazing and agriculture, I feel my whole inside crash. When I’m reminded of our human contribution to accelerating global warming, I find no safe place to hide at that moment.

In the last few years, my interest was focused on learning and expanding my thoughts, questioning my conditioning and educating myself about the complex and diverse subjects of death and of dying. For quite some time now, throughout Canada, we’ve carried on conversations, dialogues and debates about assisted death, better palliative care and other themes and aspects regarding end-of-life issues. All with the intention and desire to improve the life quality of many. And hopefully, we will continue to do so.

United Nations predicts that the population, of 60 years old and over, will continue to grow faster than any other age group. This rapid increase of our aging masses has a strong impact on our societal structures and institutions. Politicians, policy-makers and medical professionals are scrambling to anticipate its effects and find solutions on all fronts.

Since my first involvement with death and dying studies in 2014, I see how much momentum this field of interest has gained in Canada, even more in the USA and certainly in the UK as well. In a brief search over the internet and Facebook, I saw many people joining the movement for normalizing dying, death and grief within the context of our daily lives. At school, at work, in our homes and in conversations across all spectrums people are inviting more openness, more normalization and more honesty about our mortality.