About Dying??

I've been asked many times why the URL of this site is dying.about.com if my topic is really palliative care. You can see from my last post that palliative care isn't only for the dying so there does seem to be some disconnect between my topic and it's corresponding URL.

This site used to be About Death and Dying with palliative care and hospice only one aspect of it. It contained a lot of fluff - poetry about death, information about pet death, suicide, etc. - that isn't really on-topic with palliative care and hospice. In attempts to re-shift the focus of this site to more medically sound information about palliative care, hospice, and end-of-life care, the powers that be at About.com renamed the site to About Palliative Care and that's where I stepped in.

Unfortunately, the web is a strange and mysterious place which I'm only beginning to understand and the technicalities of changing URL addresses remains a mystery. What I do know is that changing the URL would have been a disservice to the thousands of subscribers and frequent visitors to the site and forum. So, it made more sense to keep the URL dying.about.com.

I hope that clears it up for you curious folks out there. And I hope it doesn't keep any weary prospective palliative care patients from accessing important information about palliative care options.