Aimee Copeland
Thank you for coming to this site to read updates on Aimee, and to learn how you can be of support to her and her family.
As of today, Thursday, May 26, all updates will be on a new website that I set up for her
This new site is the same collaborative effort between her father and I. It’ll be easier now to read his posts, and to find fundraisers, blood drives, and other ways to help.
With gratitude to all of you for your support,
Ken Lewis
3 Ways to help:
1) Donate blood
Donate blood in Augusta at the Shepeard Community Blood Center, 1533 Wrightsboro Road, Augusta, GA 30904 (706) 737-4551.
Donate blood anywhere -give blood to help all of those in need. Giving blood is giving life.
2) Donate money
Instead of flowers (which aren’t allowed in the ICU) and gifts, Aimee’s father is requesting financial support.
Or, send a check made out to an account set-up by her father:
“The Aimee Copeland Fund”
United Community Bank
2168 Scenic Highway
Snellville, GA 30078
This money will be used for hospital and/or rehabilitation expenses.
The fine print: The Paypal account is secure, allowing for donations to meet the needs of Aimee situation. We cannot allow for tax-deductible donations as we were told by our local community foundation that “you can’t use nonprofit status to donate to an individual.”
Fundraisers: see Aimee Copeland Fundraisers
3) Raise awareness
Homemade zip lines are dangerous. Leave zip line construction to professionals.
About Aimee: bright star, lover of life, infinitely generous of heart and spirit. From Snellville, GA. B.A. from UGA in 2010. Nearing completion of her Master’s degree at UWG Psychology. Loved dearly by family and friends.
Click here for some photos of Aimee
Aimee is a masters student here at University of West Georgia Psychology. It is a program that attracts students who are seeking a psychology with heart. With Maslow’s Humanistic Psychology as our foundation, we explore existential-phenomenological and transpersonal, amongst other, approaches to understanding the human experience. Aimee was attracted to this program because she sees psyche and spirit as inseparable. She feels that psychology divorced from spirituality is “reductionist,” and is missing the greater Unity of Existence; that humans are not things or objects, yet rather are an inseparable part of the Web of Life. We are no different that the leaf which has no separate existence from the tree, from the ecosystem, and from the totality of Existence itself- whatever you may call it (i.e. God, Gaia, All, Cosmos).
Aimee is particularly interested in eco-psychology; the study and practice of re-harmonizing with Nature as a means for creating psychological health and vitality. She believes in the power of Nature to heal the trauma of the psyche. Indicative of an eco-psychologist perspective would be this:
“Take some time away from the man-made world, go into nature, and realize that you are an inseparable part of Existence. It is not a sign of dysfunction to not be able to harmonize with society. Society is inherently ungrounded, as it is based upon the thoughts of other.
“Let go into nature and you will find all of the support to open your heart and to be the full person that you were destined to be. In nature you can let go of all that is untrue, all the conditioned parts of your personality, and your true self will emerge. This true self is not a personality, but your Being itself, having a human experience.”
Aimee largely created this: Psychology department newsletter. It reads:
The Department of Psychology at the University of West Georgia is unique in that our theoretical roots are in humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Our courses range from classically humanistic concerns -like the centrality of human subjective experience in psychology, holistic approaches to psychological understanding,human growth and development, and the enhancement of human potential – to contemporary attention to transpersonal and spiritual horizons. Themes such as the meaning of genuine community, sociality, understanding oneself and others, and the myriad ways through which we grow and develop are central to our academic learning environment.
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The Copeland family thanks you for your support through prayers, money, and blood. This website has had hundreds of thousands of visitors over the past few days. The shared hosting server that we were on collapsed, and we had to upgrade to an expensive enterprise grade designated server.
Two businesses donated the resources to fund the additional expenses that this site was unprepared for; the Bulk Bag Discharger manufacturer Sodimate and the Chicago Midway Airport Hotel Carlton Inn Midway. We thank them for their generosity. We hope that all technical issues are behind us. We apologize for the periods that we were down. We have been working day and night to keep this site available and updated with the latest, most comprehensive, and most accurate information. Thank you all.