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Author Archives: Antal Polony (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
It’s A Wonderful Life by Frank Capra
Sometimes It Takes Perspective to See the Beauty of Life
Sometimes life can be a hard slog, full of struggles and losses and triumphs and fleeting periods of happiness. Meaning is elusive, and sometimes our impact on others can seem as negative as it is positive. And, of course, our … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Classic Film, Cultural Perspectives, Death, Film Review, It's a Wonderful Life, Life, Life lessons, Suicide
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Goodbye Solo, by Ramin Bahrani
A Fascinating and Ultimately Uplifting Exploration of Loneliness and a Decision for Death
We never know very much about the two principal characters in Goodbye Solo, a 2009 film by Ramin Bahrani. We learn more about them in the five-minute opening sequence than we do in the film’s remaining 85. A charming and … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Death, Death on Film, Film Review, Goodbye Solo, Ramin Bahrani, Suicide
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Halloween’s Deathly History
Halloween Rites Reflect a Wide Range of Cultures’ Collective Struggles with the Concept of Death
It’s that time of year again. Jack O’Lanterns, false cobwebs, and paper or plastic skeletons are popping up all over the place. If you awakened from a coma, you could probably approximate the date. It’s time for Halloween, one of … Continue reading
Posted in Something Special
Tagged 9/11, Cultural Perspectives, Death, Dying, Halloween, Spirituality and Belief
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The Ongoing Aid-in-Dying Debate
A Panel of Experts In Hawaii Have Concluded that Physician-Assisted Dying is Legal
Hawaii may be on its way to becoming the fourth state that legalizes physician-assisted dying. A ten-person panel of experts on Hawaii law, medicine, elder care, legislation, and end-of-life issues convened in Honolulu, in a conference aptly titled, Is Physician-Assisted … Continue reading
Wit, by Margaret Edson
A Pulitzer Prize Winning Play Follows a Dying Woman’s Path to Self-Discovery
There are many routes to self-discovery. A lot of them are painful. In Wit (or W;t), a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Margaret Edson, the reader (or the audience) witnesses one woman’s such journey, forced upon her by a lonely … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Cancer, education, Hospice Care, medicine, Palliative Care
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The Progression of Burial and Cremation Alternatives
In Europe and Florida, Novel After-Death Disposition Options are Slowly Reaching the Public
Today, our after-death disposition choices in the U.S. are almost exclusively limited to cremation and burial. When most people think of burial, they think of full-casket funerals in a conventional cemetery with an embalmed body, suits, flower wreaths, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Something Special
Tagged environmental impact, Green Burial, Promession, resomation
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