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Author Archives: Antal Polony (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
What is a Good Death?
Elizabeth Edwards’ Death by Metastatic Cancer and Our Conception of a Good Death
Every person might have a different idea of what constitutes a “good death.” Perhaps a good death would center on emersion in the love of family or reconciling conflicts with those who were once important to us. Our culture’s discomfort … Continue reading
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Tagged Cancer, Elizabeth Edwards, Good Death, Health, John Edwards, Metastatic Cancer, Palliative Care
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The State of Organ Donation Today
The Waitlist is Growing for an Organ Donation Many May Never Receive
Organ donation remains one of the most pressing and complex subjects in medical care. The recipient waitlist continues to grow: currently over 110,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for some form of major organ donation, and many of them … Continue reading
The Legal Progress of Aid in Dying
Does an Election in Vermont Suggest a Changing Political Reality?
There are a handful of issues in American politics that consistently enflame passions, aggravate divisions, and defy solutions. Debates over the death penalty, abortion, and Second Amendment protection call into question our basic understanding of life and its relation to … Continue reading
Who Wrote the Saddest Song of the Century?
Oh Where Oh Where Can My Baby Be?
Everybody knows the song “Last Kiss.” Everybody’s heard it at least once, and after they do, they tend to remember it. The haunting refrain “Oh Where Oh Where Can My Baby Be?” just stays with you, cuts through whatever else … Continue reading
Vadis Turner’s “Burial Party” at Manhattan’s Lyons Wier Gallery
Confronting the Last Taboo
Artist Vadis Turner has long specialized in re-visualizing the everyday from a subversive, feminist perspective. Her 2009 piece “Vanity: My Beautiful Education,” presented an almost violently arrayed set of sculptures, composed of materials such as tampons, fake eyelashes, fake fingernails, … Continue reading
