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I found it through reading The Wild Hunt or if you prefer [livejournal.com profile] the_wildhunt (about something completely unrelated). It is a survey of the end of life and death wishes of Pagans. I am not sure if anyone is interested, but I figured I would post the link just in case (I am kind of addicted to surveys).

http://www.circlesanctuary.org/endoflifesurvey/

--Phae

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Date: 2006-07-23 05:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] desree42.livejournal.com
Beh. It conflates wicca/nature worshipper/pagan so much that I would be pretty surprised if the results were very helpful or an accurate slice of pagans.

What's the saying? Ask 20 witches how to do something and you'll get 30 answers? I just hope they keep in mind that pagans are people too, treat me with respect and discretion and I'll be a pretty happy dying camper.

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Date: 2006-07-24 05:56 am (UTC)
elf: Rainbow sparkly fairy (Default)
From: [personal profile] elf
I pushed diversity & individualism a lot in my answers--kept pointing out that what's good for one pagan may not be what another wants. Made sure my own preferences, when they asked about them, were weird enough that they'd have to seriously think about what kind of "trend" info they're gathering. (My chosen method of body disposal is soup a la Stranger in a Strange Land. Which I know is illegal, and not gonna happen, and so I mentioned that too.)

I also mentioned that most pagans aren't going to expect the staff to know or understand their beliefs--what they expect is respect and consideration, and a willingness to accept their preferences once they've been stated.

And that many pagans find comfort in images that many Christians think are grotesque or macabre. I thought that was worth mentioning--that yes, the witchy person may actually *want* her deathbed to be surrounded with skulls and pictures of rotting corpses.

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Date: 2006-07-23 05:29 pm (UTC)
elf: Rainbow sparkly fairy (Default)
From: [personal profile] elf
Where would you like your death to occur?
  • Feeding tubes
  • Home
  • Hospital
  • No preference
  • Other
Errm... "Feeding tubes" is a place? I wanna go there...

Overall, I liked the survey. (I like surveys; I get to skew the results. And quote the Principia. Always a fun thing.)

I love being able to say "yes, there are specific medical procedures I have religous objections to: the fill-out-useless-forms and follow-standard-protocols parts." (As a Discordian, forbidden to believe what I read, the forms are... interesting.)

I think some of the questions were scrambled a bit.

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Date: 2006-07-24 05:57 am (UTC)
elf: Rainbow sparkly fairy (Default)
From: [personal profile] elf
I was worried that the repeated questions were just me, some kind of browser error. (I used the "back" button a couple of times when I clicked "next" too soon.)

I mentioned in the answers that they were duplicate questions, and which questions they duplicated, in case their readout only shows answers & question #'s.

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