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“Songbird” by Fleetwood Mac: Christine McVie's open-ended song can celebrate both living and lost loved ones -
First the Wealth Gap, Now the U.S. Has a Growing Health Gap: Discover why the U.S. health gap is growing and how improving healthspan can enhance quality of life for Americans -
How to Comfort A Dying Loved One: End-of-life expert Dr. Marianne Matzo explains some simple ways to offer solace
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Author Archives: Antal Polony (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
“The Wind Through the Keyhole,” by Stephen King
The master of horror returns to his epic Dark Tower Series
On June 19th, 1999, famed horror author Stephen King was walking on the side of a quiet country highway outside of Lowell, Maine, when, he was struck by a pickup truck, the driver distracted by his dog in the back … Continue reading
Our Beautiful Funeral Music: “The End,” by the Doors
Songs to guide you through a loss, to play at a funeral, or to enjoy on your own
“The End,” one of the Doors’ most famous, and impenetrable songs, in its final stanzas, reveals itself as a song on death. Immortalized in Francis Ford Coppola’s viciously brutal war film, Apocalypse Now, “the End” tells a long, winding, haunted … Continue reading
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Doors, Doors The End. Doors, Eulogies, Funeral Memorial Songs, Funeral Music, Music
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What Is an Ombudsman? An Interview with Benson Nadell
Ombudsmen in San Francisco face many challenges in their mission to protect residents of long-term care facilities
Benson Nadell is Program Director of the San Francisco Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. Long-term care ombudsmen are tasked with monitoring the quality of life at licensed LTC facilities, a tall order in this age of state budget crises, and … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Assisted living, death & dying, end-of-life, long-term care, ltc, Ombudsman
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Beasts of the Southern Wild by Beinh Zeitlin
An imaginative, engaging film about the death of a way of life
In the opening sequence of Beinh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, a wildly imaginative independent film set on the Louisiana Gulf Coast, a herd of Ozarks, towering beasts that roamed the earth in the days before the Ice Age, … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Death of a Way of Life, Dying, Hospice, Louisiana, Medical Treatment, New Orleans
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What is PAWS? An Interview with Tara Whitefield
How one organization aids the sick and elderly by offering animal companionship
Tara Whitefield is the Director of Companion Animal Services at PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support), a San Francisco-based, privately funded non-profit that facilitates animal companionship for the physically ill and socially marginalized throughout the Bay Area. She sat down with … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Animals, Animals Helping EOL, PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support), Pets
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Jewish Burial Practices, Today and Yesterday
Taharah, or ritual purification, prepares the person who passed, and their loved ones, for the next stage of existence
In classic Orthodox Jewish tradition, the newly passed are treated much like the newly born. That is, they are ritualistically purified in accordance with an elaborate sacred Jewish custom called the Taharah, and therefore prepared for their next stage of … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Perspectives
Tagged chevra kadisha, Jewish burial rituals, taharah
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