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Dr Janine Kirby

End of Life Mindfulness

Death was once a deeply human, relational, and often sacred passage. Today, it is frequently medicalized, occurring behind hospital curtains disconnected from loved ones, rituals, and spiritual traditions that help us make sense of life’s final chapter.

 

Mindful Dying offers a different path. Through gentle mindfulness practices, reflection, and compassionate guidance, the invitation is to reclaim dying as a human experience — one that allows presence, dignity, connection, acceptance, and peace.

 

 

Dr Janine Kirby is a family physician and homeopath living in KuGompo City (formerly East London)

on the eastern seaboard of South Africa. Janine has over 30 years of experience in palliative care and has also been teaching mindfulness since 2010. Janine is the Chairperson of IMISA (Institute of Mindfulness for South Africa) and a board member of eamba (Earth Alliance of Mindfulness Based Associations).

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