About Writer Maggie Vlazny is a Certified Imaga Relationship Therapist and RCI Singles Coach practicing in Fairfield County, CT. For more information, please see her website at
Dying: A Family Rite Of Passage Dying: A Family Rite of Passage by Maggie Vlazny, MSW When my mother lost her father it was sad, but not unexpected. He was 80 years old, had had that lingering kind of cancer that old men often get, and there was plenty of time to prepare for his death. Not that any of us ever acknowledged his demise or named the dread disease he lived with for so long. Until the day he died he spoke of getting...... Similar Editorial : by Garrison Wynn. | Source : Scottish Family Crests