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The Continuing Adventures of the Psychopomp: What is the Vocation of a Psychopomp?

This is the first of a series of posts about our death-denying and death-phobic culture and the “usefulness” of a psychopomp as a means...

Advance Health Care Planning and the Death Taboo

Early on in my blog on this website, I wrote a post entitled Law as a Healing Profession, which included a discussion of a...

People Die Every Day, It’s Perfectly Safe – Why Would I Need a Guide?!

This is a picture taken outside my favorite fry bread restaurant, in Bluff, Utah.  The Navajo Twins, the rock formation depicted (and name of...

Capacity and Incapacity: A Broad Context for Financial Abuse of Elders (part 1)

  Aging is a process.  The fact is that most of us, especially my age cohort (the Baby Boomers), really don’t like to think...

Dementia and Memory: Out of Time, Out of Mind I

So I’m back to that rather slippery theme of memory again – this is the first of two parts. The online Merriam-Webster defines memory...

The Freshly Minted Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act

This just in!  (sort of) – on July 16th the Uniform Law Commission approved the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.  What does...

Inherited IRAs in light of last week’s US Supreme Court decision (Clark v. Rameker)

Everyone knows what an IRA is – right?  We think IRAs have been around a really long time, but they only came into being...

Jefferson County Senior Law Day is Saturday, June 7, 2014.

The 4th  Annual Jefferson County Senior Law Day will be held at Faith Bible Chapel, located at 63rd and Ward Road, Arvada, Colorado, beginning...

April 16, 2014 is National Healthcare Decisions Day!

What, you say you haven’t yet seen the greeting card celebrating this event?  Well, it might contain a warm greeting along the lines of...

Who is the Real Beneficiary of a Spiritual-Ethical Will?

This title is a bit of a trick question – by ethical will I refer to a nonlegal document, a personalized writing by someone...

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