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Flawed Kidney Function Test Discriminated Against Black Patients: Race-based criteria has been removed from kidney functioning tests -
Does Grief Heighten Clumsiness?: Some research and anecdotal evidence suggests the answer may be “yes” -
Harmony Amidst Change: Japan’s Kezouin Fuchu-shi Cemetery: Explore Japanese cemetery design, societal shifts, and the harmonious coexistence of past and present burial customs
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Tag Archives: Suffering
“On Pain” by Kahlil Gibran
Timeless funeral poem coaches us to meet the lessons of pain with openness
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. So begins Kahlil Gibran’s poem, “On … Continue reading
Posted in The Next Chapter
Tagged God, Grace, Graceful Mournings, Kahlil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran poetry, pain, Pain versus suffering, State of Grace, Suffering
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“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
-Mark Twain
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged before life, born, Death, Death Quotes, Dying, End of life fear, end-of-life, Fear, Infinity, Mark Twain, SevenPonds, Suffering
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We Euthanize Dying Animals, Don’t We?
My grandmother starved to death as the aid-in-dying (formerly assisted suicide) debate continues
Today I write about a subject that is difficult to tackle. When we end the suffering of an animal we call it euthanasia, but for people, the new term is “aid-in-dying” or what we formerly called “assisted suicide”. This is not … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Kitty Dies, Stomach Cancer, Suffering
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