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Bookstore shelves may be loaded with thoughtful books about death and dying - but caregivers, or terminal patients themselves, often don't have time or energy for them.
Though discussion is targeted toward caregivers, the information could also be valuable to dying patients.
Because so much information is presented, and caregivers may have little time, Doherty suggests watching the videos a bit at a time and rewinding when needed.
"I didn't think they could be as effective for people already in a highly charged emotional state. There needed to be something else that was more matter-of-fact," Doherty says.
Doherty decided to produce a set of videos: one about how to best provide physical, emotional and spiritual comfort to loved ones, and one that addresses wills, advanced directives and other legal matters. Two more videos were released the following year culled from the original footage, one about understanding end-of-life patient needs and the other about the gift of being there for the terminally ill patient.
It wasn't that Doherty didn't get information from health care workers and hospice professional.
The couple - Jess Doherty, 41, a television producer, and Rebekah Morris, who was director of KLRU-TV's advertising and public relations department - have left a legacy behind.
She talks about how profound questions of faith can surface for the dying person - and how that can be disconcerting to those around them.
"My questions were varied and seemed endless," he has written. "I craved information so I would have some idea what to expect."
In the second video, a lawyer and Hospice Austin workers talk about options for burial, cremation and donating organs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and how to deal with bills and insurance.
The first includes doctors, Hospice Austin workers, family members and patients talking about everything from pain medication to the stages of death.
But the information came bit by bit and not necessarily when he needed it, he says.
"It's as if the threads (connecting them to the world) start to become thinner and thinner," she says.
In it, Rev. Janet Maykus, director of spiritual care at Hospice Austin, talks about how those who are dying gradually disassociate from what's happening with friends, co-workers or family members. Just as there is a shutting down of the body, she says, there is a shutting down of relationships.
"Facing Death," sold nationally, has received an award from the National Hospice Organization and is being used by Stephen Ministries, as well as Hospice A
Other videos on the subject were well done but often emotionally wrenching, Doherty says, containing little of the concrete information he had been looking for as a caregiver.
Also discussed: advanced directives, living wills, do not resuscitate orders, and how to obtain a power of attorney for health care.
The four-part videotpe series, called "Facing Death," answer questions Doherty and other caregivers had when Rebekah, 30, was dying.
She died in April of 1994. Out of his pain and grief has come help from others: a series of videos that help prepare viewers for the realities of death.
There is discussion about dealing with disfigurement, about using humor to diffuse uncomfortable situations.
With the go-ahead to produce the videos, which was shot and edited by David DeWitt, Doherty consulted with experts from Hospice Austin.
Maykus reminds viewers not to talk around people who are dying, as often happens, but to them.
After months of chasing treatment options, of refusing to give up hope but finding none,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she is gone and he is reeling.
"Don't feel that you've got to be overly careful," says a man with a terminal illness. "Don't feel that you're standing on a crate of eggs - you're not.
Doherty pitched his idea to Rick Geyer, president of Family Experiences Productions,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Inc., an Austin-based company that produces consumer health and patient education videos.
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