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The Passing of Susan Shaw:
A Gift to the Community

by Cara Thornley

On the last weekend in March, Merle Thompson, Head of Health and Well Being of the St. Johnsbury Shambhala Center in northern Vermont convened a meeting of a core care group at Susan Shaw’s home. Susan, with dignity and presence, told us she had been diagnosed with the terminal stage of cancer which had been in remission since 2010 and that she had months, maybe weeks, to live.

She wanted to die at home and was asking community support for that process. Ultimately, however, she chose to go to Vermont Respite House in Williston, VT.
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Reborn in Tibet, part 3

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Stories of Who We Are

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