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Everyday Elders

Rick Beeman

Care, not profit, through aging, illness, and dying.

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Article 4 of 12 — Part Two

Part One, “Unsecured,” told the story of families holding signed settlement agreements from a nursing home company that filed for bankruptcy rather than pay them — and of a state that ended up holding the same in...

11 days ago
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Unsecured

The tapes sat in an FBI warehouse for years. Snohomish County’s public utility district in Washington State pried them loose in 2004 while fighting Enron in bankruptcy court. Alex Gibney included them in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room...

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Agape: The Word the Primacy Principle Actually Needs

By Rick Beeman — Ars Moriendi Project

The first two essays in this series argued that nursing home law needs a stated primacy principle — care ranked above fiduciary return, the way ERISA ranks a plan’s duty to its beneficiaries above all...

16 days ago

The Missing Principle

By Rick Beeman — Ars Moriendi Project

The first essay in this series asked where empathy’s claim sits within a healthcare system that also has to answer to capital. And what happens to a person when that claim comes last? The answer: that...

16 days ago

Is There a Role for Empathy?

By Rick Beeman — Ars Moriendi Project

In February 2025, on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Elon Musk said: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit. They’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is t...

17 days ago
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    Chaplain, elder liberation theologian, and third-generation Methodist minister with 40+ years in chaplaincy and end-of-life education. Founder of the Ars Moriendi Project and author on aging, caregiving, and dying with dignity.

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