A Sense of Doubt blog post #2850 - Death Series #008: Don't Offer Advice

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2850 - Death Series #008: Don't Offer Advice

I have to learn this one.

I consider my opinion very important. I am always trying to fix everyone, to seem like an expert, even when I am not, which is often.

I am accused often of man-splaining.

Sometimes, it is man-splaining; sometimes, it is teacher-mode. After all, I AM a teacher.

I am sure it is probably both most of the time.

I am getting there.

I am learning.

It's not easy.

THE DEATH SERIES - POST #008 OF 10

In a series of ten posts over 12-13 days, I am presenting a fact a day about death from the book I am reading titled Advice for Future Corpses by Sallie Tisdale. I hope the thought provoking facts that I share will enrich your life as much as they have enriched mine.

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.


TODAY'S PASSAGE:

"Don't offer advice unless you are clearly asked for it. And if you are asked for advice, give it gently and openly, leaving room for differences. Don't try to cheer a person up. Please don't say: practice gratitude. And don't "Kübler-Ross" a person. Don't say: I see you're in the bargaining stage. Don't assume you understand a person's reasons for their behavior" (Tisdale 73).

Work Cited

Tisdale, Sallie. Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying. Gallery Books, Simon and Schuster, 2018.

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