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Patricia Cherry's avatar

That is phenomenal. I have subscribed so that I can watch your progress in the next twelve months.

Caroline Bobby's avatar

thank you Patricia - I am really touched 🧡

BEFRIENDING LIFE's avatar

Thank you, Caroline, for researching and bringing forth this topic. After a lifetime of chronic pain, this is a sensible alternative!

Jane Duncan Rogers's avatar

Beautifully written and an inspiration for anyone else who chooses this way to depart from life. It is indeed a ritual, and therefore has it's place for those who want it, in this weird and wonderful journey we call living.

Nadia Chambers's avatar

Thank you Caro- this writing and the rest that I know will follow, is so, so very important and much needed. You will touch, are touching, many lives, many journeys. Bless you ❤️❤️

Caroline Bobby's avatar

thank you - for more than you know - it matters to feel understood and kind of cheered on. The reality of day to day is often hardcore - knowing I have community makes a difference 🙏

Nadia Chambers's avatar

💯 behind you xxx

Sarah Wilson Gleadow's avatar

What a most moving and beautiful read. It has given me hope. I hope you your departure is peaceful and loving. I am grateful for you posting this and showing agency in your life and your death. As a retired nurse and now battling with the nhs to get any care, worried about what will happen when it is my time, I now know there are alternatives. Thank you for sharing this. 💕

Aly Dickinson's avatar

Seeing these open hearted and supportive comments is so well deserved and a lovely recogniition of your genrousity in sharing. You are a pioneer in getting this out in to the open and that is bloody hard work when met with silence, rejection or misunderstanding. Here, though, people are listening and responding wirh warmth. It;s a hard slog but you are making it easier for those who come after you. Others will stand on your shoulders even if you can't see how far this could reach

Goddess Ignis 🔥's avatar

I am so inspired by you. What bravery you have had and have. I love you. Thankyou for sharing this depth and totally new thing to me this evening. I shed a tear, smiled deeply with you and fuck, felt so empowered reading this. 🌹♥️ I have just read a book about death doula-ing and it’s definitely a space I’d love to explore at some point in my life. So this has just opened my eyes further. 🙏🌟🌈🔥♥️ I send you deep gratitude and love for your beautiful passing over ritual and ceremony. 🌻🌻🌻

Caroline Bobby's avatar

thank you and all my love to your future work - working on the threshold of birth and death is where everything is most luminious and alive - in my humble opinion anyway 🧡

Goddess Ignis 🔥's avatar

I feel that too, and in the times of human emotional turmoil, which is where I work currently. We’re all absolutely beautiful beings I believe, so complex and yet simplicity is often the tonic in all situations.

Thresholds are the places where it ALL happens. 🌟🔥💎

Tina Storey's avatar

Beautiful, brave, sensible. I wish you well on this journey. You seem to have planned it well.