Judy MacDonald Johnston: Prepare for a good end of life
ジュディ・マクドナルド・ジョンストン 「人生で良い終わりを迎えるためにするべきこと」
By day, Judy MacDonald Johnston develops children's reading programs. By night, she helps others maintain their quality of life as they near death. Full bio
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それは 誰もが きちんと考えます
お話しします
結婚生活の68年を
そこに住んでいるー
私は 彼らと知り合いました
そして
取り仕切るようになりました
いくつかのことを学びました
私たちの身体機能や
ゼロに近づいていきます
適切な人たちと組めば
分かりました
(テキスト:やり残したことを終わらせる時期)
(テキスト:やり残したことを終わらせる時期)
ジムとシャーリーは懸案となっていた牧場を
安心して前に進めるようになりました
(テキスト:受け止める時期)
(テキスト:迎える時期)
(テキスト:迎える時期)
最期の日々には静かに 安心させてほしいものです
最後の最後まで意識があったものの
ただ―
シャーリーはちゃんと面倒見る
と伝えていました
と言う人も多いですが
ビンゴに勝たせたりはしません でも―
彼女の前では 朝の体操はさぼれない
最期に聞きたい言葉です
心配から解放されるのです
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Judy MacDonald Johnston - EntrepreneurBy day, Judy MacDonald Johnston develops children's reading programs. By night, she helps others maintain their quality of life as they near death.
Why you should listen
Judy MacDonald Johnston is the Publisher and Cofounder of Blue Lake Children's Publishing, which develops educational reading tools for preschoolers through a program called the Tessy and Tab Reading Club. Johnston's credo, "love words early," and her focus on the earliest years of life, is an interesting foil for her other passion: Planning for end of life. Johnston's side project, Good [End of] Life, deals not with happy babies decoding symbols, but with a much more morbid topic: Death. Good [End of] Life is a set of online worksheets and practices that aim to help deal with difficult questions -- like who should speak for you if you cannot speak, and whether to fill out a do-not-resuscitate form -- before it's too late.
In the past 15 years alone Johnston has founded two other companies in addition to Blue Lake Children's Publishing: PrintPaks, a children's software company, and Kibu, a social networking site for teenage girls. Previously Johnston was a Worldwide Project Marketing Manager at Hewlett Packard.
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