Caring for the Dying by Henry Fersko-Weiss

Author:Henry Fersko-Weiss
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633410367
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser

The content of a legacy project can center on a single important aspect of a person's life or a host of things that mattered to them or to the people around them. That content may come from identifying the things that were most important to the person, major events in their life, values they held, things they learned in life, their relationship with family and friends, accomplishments, involvement in the community, their work to change society, and on and on.

Above all, the legacy project should focus on how the dying person hopes people will remember them or the messages they wish to speak into the future—perhaps to continue influencing the people who go on after they die—in other words, the emotional, intellectual, and even spiritual inheritance that family and friends receive because this person was part of their life. This form of legacy is much more valuable than the money and objects a person might pass along.

In contemplating the content for a legacy project and trying to see the best way to narrow its focus, a dying person may also reveal things about meaning in their life. The two play off each other and impact each other in a back-and-forth dance of discovery. In the act of shifting from thinking about content to the form that will capture that content, the process shifts from an inward focus to one that is oriented outward. People in the family may contribute at this point in the process, bringing their own perspectives and enriching the project.

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