Below is a framework from Dr. Ira Byock that outlines some of the issues many people can comtemplate as they approach the end.
- Sense of completion with worldly affairs
- Sense of completion in relationships with community
- Sense of meaning about one’s individual life
- Experiencing self love
- Experiencing love of others
- Sense of completion in relationships with family and friends
- Acceptance of the finality of life — of one’s existence as an individual
- Sense of a new self (personhood) beyond personal loss
- Sense of meaning about life in general
- Surrendering to the transcendent, to the unknown — “letting go”
