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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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My Evening with Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin – Who Would Have Thought We’d Be at This Feminist Junction
Feminism takes on it’s final movement: the right way to both age and die well
When I saw the name Gloria Steinem on the City Arts and Lectures mailer (also known as the NPR interviews,) I immediately phoned in for my ticket. I had no intention of missing one of my all-time favorite female pioneers. … Continue reading
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Tagged breast cancer, C Word, Cancer, City Arts and Lectures, Dealing with an Illness, Death and Dying, Gloria Steinem, How to Be A friend To A Friend Who’s Sick, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Loss, Ms Magazine, NPR, Sickness, terminal illness, The Big C, What to Do When Dealing With Terminal Illness
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From The Old American Way of Death to the New American Way
A fan sends me a strong message to please examine the funeral business
As SevenPonds grows, I continue to be deeply touched by fans who reach out to me in a multitude of ways. I receive emails, calls, letters and some even approach me at conferences and events. I cannot begin to tell … Continue reading
My Sunday Making Hearts With Page Hodel
Beautiful hearts made of all kinds of things in loving memory of Madalene
This past Sunday, I had the amazing experience of taking part in Page Hodel’s weekly ritual of making hearts in San Francisco. More than 8 years ago, Page Hodel moved into a new apartment in San Francisco when she met … Continue reading
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Tagged CA, Death of a Loved One, Heart, Hearts for Madalene, In Loving Memory, Loss of a friend, Loss of a Lover, Love and Loss, Making Hearts, Monday Hearts for Madalene, Oakland, Ovarian Cancer, Page Hodel, Priscilla Rice, Sayings About Death of a Friend, Women's Cancer Resource Center
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For Those Who Have Lost A Spouse Today
They take pleasure in talking about their dead husband or wife in a loving way
It’s been a long month with a lot going on here at SevenPonds. Goodness, it’s all I can do to keep up with the influx of our growth! On top of the sheer workload, I’m also dating a wonderful man, … Continue reading
How Did SevenPonds Come to Be?
We revisit our beginning
It’s been two years at SevenPonds since we launched our first blog post and it’s hard to believe we have arrived at our second anniversary already! What a wild ride it has been. I cannot begin to express how heartwarming … Continue reading
Speaking of Romantic Valentine’s Day Stories — it Starts With Sex and Then Love Kicks in
In the end we are left with the memories of the most romantic love letters ever
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After Two Years of a Lot of Hard Work, Including Existing in a Mood-Altering State
This startup founder returns refreshed with a new perspective on life
As you may have noticed by the lack of my recent Sharing Suzette posts, I took a writing hiatus the month of December. Ok, ok, I admit it was longer but I had good reason. This is officially our two-year … Continue reading
Have You Considered What to Read Before you Die?
A book about 1001 movies to see before you die nicely highlights the greatest moments of the Boomer generation
According to my earliest memory when considering my own death, albeit far in the future, I was still a child at the time. I had no fear of the possibility of dying and assumed I’d go in a most natural … Continue reading
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Tagged 1001 Movies to See Before You Die, Classic Film, Film, Filmmaking, I am Cuba, Psycho, Soy Cuba, The Big Chill
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Is There Anything as Enchanting as the Meaning of Flowers?
Today an old fashioned nosegay is a new way of offering sympathy flowers
I’ve always had a fascination with the meaning of flowers. Back in the Victorian days each flower had a meaning attached as a form of expressive comunication. Flowers were offered in dainty, informal, often hand-picked arrangements called a tussie-mussie, that … Continue reading
What’s Halloween without a Ghost Story?
My true story of a cocktail party in an 1866 haunted house in New York state!
It’s Halloween this month and we start to think things like – are ghosts real? Let me start by saying I absolutely DO NOT believe in ghosts or anything else like that!! Yet once, my brother Jon told me of a … Continue reading
Choosing to Leave a Deeply Meaningful Gift of the Heart – an Ethical Will
Today, it’s more commonly called a heart will
An ethical will, or what I prefer to call a heart will, is perhaps the most extraordinary gift someone who is terminally ill can leave to a family member. In its simplest form, a heart will is the act of … Continue reading
Do You Want to Live Forever?
Aubrey de Grey is out to prove we can
I was recently introduced to Aubrey de Grey, who’s on a mission to show us how we can live forever and raise the funding needed to start the research process to do so. Sound crazy? Well, if given the chance … Continue reading
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Tagged Aging, Aging and Elder Care, anti-aging, Aubrey de Grey, Blade Runner, Death and Dying, Future, Living Forever, Nanotechnology, Physics, Physics of the Future, Raymond Kurzwell, Rejuvenation Research, Research, Science, SENS Foundation, SevenPonds, TEDMED, Western Medicine
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Bucket Lists – Everyone Has a Bucket List!
But how many have a “gift of dying” list?
Things have been really busy lately since the full launch of our site. I’m finally out from behind the computer (whew!) and am busy building a new life as well as reaching out to industry experts. It’s so great getting … Continue reading
In A Palliative Care Nursing Home
A cranky old man dies and his legend goes viral.
This is a poem that has gone viral. It’s suppose to be a true story. Either way it’s a poem to share and who can resist a good yarn. An old man died in a palliative care nursing home in … Continue reading
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
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
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Tagged Digital Death, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Online Memorial, Tombstones, White Pages
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Widowhood is Back
From Scarlett O'Hara to Alexander McQueen, a Victorian way of living and dying is returning
I have a theory about design and culture, that everything trickles down from the fashion world in some shape or form. Fashion pulls from life events to create formalized trends. What was once high-fashion becomes mainstream, reflecting and shaping how … Continue reading
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Tagged Death and Dying, Fashion, Loss of Husband, Mourning, Victorian, Widow, Widowhood
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Sir Anthony Hopkins Creates Beautiful Music For Living
"Someone died, and the waltz goes on"
I just returned from a much-needed vacation in Florida. Meanwhile, our team has been hard at work preparing for the imminent full launch of the SevenPonds website. In the name of getting the site pushed out to you, our users, … Continue reading
How to Divide Family Heirlooms
My mom’s five tips to a peaceful division of family treasures
It’s rather expected that every mother has her own set of rules she expects her children to abide by. As far back as I can remember, one of my mother’s top rules was a method she wanted us to use … Continue reading
SevenPonds Helps You Shop Funeral Services
Four tips to guide your decisions when selecting cremation services
Are the details of shopping funeral services a mystery? Today I present four tips to help you sort through your options and make better-informed decisions when shopping funeral providers for cremation services: 1 What if I only want to purchase … Continue reading
