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Poetree: The Innovative Urn: Margaux Ruyant's urn honors the life of the deceased while cultivating the new life of a tree -
Putting It Back Together: Exploring Grief through a near-death experience: A 21-year-old woman's near-fatal accident alters her relationship with life. -
Buddhism and the Eastern Middle Ground: In Buddhist tradition, our death falls into a plane of existence that continues even after our final breath
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
-Havelock Ellis
Posted in A Right of Passage
Tagged Havelock Ellis, Havelock Ellis Quotes, Quotes about Life
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What Does the Film Seven Pounds Have to Do With Our Site SevenPonds?
We debunk 7 myths about the movie and its relationship to our site
Every once in awhile, when someone tries to say “SevenPonds,” they accidentally say “Seven Pounds”, referring to the film. Initially, before the film’s release, the producers intentionally put the name out there as a mystery mechanism to build suspense for … Continue reading
The “Pause” of Shock
Reading Octavio Paz's "Between Going and Coming" as a reaction to death
Octavio Paz received some seriously impressive accolades during his lifetime: he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1982, and for a period he held the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry … Continue reading
Gain Comfort and Solace Through Laughter
Frank & Funny greeting cards give you a unique way to offer your sympathies
A new greeting card line written exclusively by stand-up comedians offers road-tested jokes for all occasions. “Frank & Funny,” created by Seattle comedian David Crowe, even has a few cards that let you laugh out loud at aging, illness, and … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Aging, David Crowe, Death, end-of-life, Greeting card, Illness, Laughter, Loss, Stand-up comedy, Sympathy Cards
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What is Advance Directive? – An Interview with Judy Epstein
You already knew about the importance of filling out an advance directive; what about a POLST?
Dr. Judy Neall Epstein is a naturopathic physician and the Clinical Director of the Compassion & Choices End-of-Life Consultation Program. Dr. Epstein spent ten years in private practice before accepting her position at Compassion & Choices, where she works with … Continue reading
The AIDS Crisis and Representations of Heaven in “Angels in America”
The play's poignant, brutally honest take on the physical, mental, emotional crisis of an AIDS patient
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America is almost too big to discuss: a sprawling three-part, six-hour play ambitiously covering themes ranging from love and abandonment, to homosexuality and Mormonism, to faith and religion, to disease and dying, to politics and justice, … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged AIDS, Angels, Angels in America, Death and Dying, Heaven and Hell, terminal illness
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Growing Through Loss
Twin lessons from the death of two parents
This is Katy Polony’s story of her parents’ death, as told by her son, Antal Polony Of my two parents’ deaths, the death of my mother was the more significant for me. Partly because it came first, and partly because … Continue reading
Posted in Opening our Hearts
Tagged End-of-life Art, End-of-life Decisions, Good Death, osteoporosis, Sleep
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The Names of Those Lost in the Aurora Shooting
As we learn about the victims, we honor their memory and offer our condolences to those mourning
On behalf of the SevenPonds team, we share these emerging facts and the sympathies of those around the country. James Eagan Holmes was seen in public Monday for the first time since his arrest following the deadly shootings at a … Continue reading
Sally Ride Dies
A physicist, the first woman in space and president of her own company
Astronaut Sally Ride died peacefully after a battle with cancer. It was not revealed until her death that she had had a 27-year relationship with her female partner, Tam E. O’Shaughnessy, a psychology professor and a childhood friend. Sally Ride … Continue reading
”Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. “
~Arundhati Roy
Love and Death
Hartley Coleridge's intentional ambiguity reveals conflicting emotions
Many people know and love the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; but what they may not know is that Coleridge had three children who also grew up to be writers. The oldest of these children was Hartley Coleridge, who wrote … Continue reading
Loss and Consequences: The Drunk Driving Project
Students design visual messages to warn of the serious consequences of drunk driving
The Maryland Highway Safety Office and Urbanite Baltimore Magazine partner in Loss and Consequences: The Drunk Driving Project to develop unique anti-drunk driving messages that focus on the possible consequences of drunk driving: loss. The project utilizes the creativity of … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Ads, Art, Death, Driving under the influence, Drunk Driving, Loss and Consequences, Maryland
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How to deal with Grief? – An Interview with Ken Breniman
How the practice of yoga can aid the grieving process
Ken Breniman is a yoga therapist based out of San Francisco. His studio focuses on classes specifically designed to those with physical impairments, and those grappling with difficult emotions, which oftentimes become one and the same. He teaches a special … Continue reading
Film Review: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
To defeat Bane and his army, Bruce Wayne must recover from mourning and Batman must return from hiding
Well, it had to come to an end eventually. Nothing lasts forever, and, indeed, when it comes to super hero movie series, that might not be such a bad thing. If we are to believe the trailers and the media, … Continue reading
“I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.”
-George Burns
Announcement #2: We’ve Fully Launched SevenPonds!
BUT you may need to lend a helping hand to properly view us
For those who are just coming in to read our latest blog posts – yes, we’ve launched the full website! If you are a return visitor, you may find our new user interface a bit scrambled. So please lend a … Continue reading
Posted in Inside SevenPonds
Tagged launch, SevenPonds, SevenPonds Announcements, SevenPonds Team
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Nora Ephron Pre-planned Her Own Memorial Service
The tribute to the late writer and director was a poignant example of modern ways to celebrate a life well-lived
Around the world, people are moving away from traditional funeral services in favor of more eclectic and personal remembrance events. The days of somber funerals and wakes are gone. Instead, modern-day memorial services are more often focused on celebrating a … Continue reading
“He made death his ladder to the skies.”
-Edmund Spenser
Posted in A Right of Passage
Tagged Edmund Spenser, Edmund Spenser Quotes, Quotes about Death
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Starting Anew
The role of realizations in Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes"
They say the best revenge is living well, and in Mary Oliver’s “When Death Comes,” this is exactly the attitude the poet takes—against death itself. Oliver has an antagonistic view of death, comparing it to a “hungry bear in autumn” … Continue reading
Digital Death
Have the online White Pages become our digital tombstones?
Lately, you may have noticed there’s been a fair amount of discussion bubbling up about digital death. Facebook has just introduced a new app called Evertalk that provides FB memorial pages. Yesterday, the San Francisco Chronicle ran an article called … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Digital Death, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Online Memorial, Tombstones, White Pages
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