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Our Annual Seven Holiday Gifts for Someone Who Is Grieving, 2024 Edition: Gracious gifts that spread love and beauty -
“Making Mobiles” by Karolina Merska: An artist’s manual on how to create beautiful Polish pajaki -
“Hands Up to the Sky” by Michael Franti & Spearhead: A surprisingly upbeat song about acknowledging both loss and the beauty of life
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Author Archives: Juniper Quin (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
”Finding Your Way after Your Parent Dies” by Richard Gilbert
Advice for grieving adults is mixed bag of useful insights and misleading comforts based on Christian beliefs
Richard Gilbert, an Anglican priest and the author of “Finding Your Way after Your Parent Dies: Hope for Grieving Adults,” has the very best intentions. In the introduction to the book, he is clear about breaking free of proscribed ideas … Continue reading
Study Estimates Medical Error Is Third Leading Cause of Death in USA
A recent study from John Hopkins University urges systemic change to reduce medical error
Researchers at John Hopkins School of Medicine published a report in The BMJ earlier this month that estimates that preventable medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Medical error includes surgical complications that go … Continue reading
Life Extension Pursuits of the One Percent Miss the Point Completely
Death-phobic billionaires invest in prolonging life for the select elite
What do eliminating cancer and infectious diseases, genetic modification, cryonics and artificial brains that retain original human personality have in common? All these ventures are being funded by some of the world’s wealthiest and most death-phobic people. Peter Thiel, the … Continue reading
Posted in Science of Us
Tagged A good death, Aging Research, Cancer research, Death phobia, Dying Well, ethics, Rejuvenation Research, Stem Cell Research
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Digitized Memorial Reflects Impermanence of Life
"Family Tree" from Lithuanian designers subjects at-home cremains to tech failure
Lithuanian designers Loucas Papantoniou and Asta Sadauskaite have developed the “Family Tree” — a sleek, modern, beehive-style wall mounted structure designed to keep family cremains in a single unified place within the home, complete with backlit LED memorial message screens programmable … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Accident, creative memorial, creative memorial ideas, Cremains, Installation, Power outage, SevenPonds
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Our Weekly Tip: Turn Your Grief Into a Gratitude Meditation
Use this simple process to turn painful thoughts into evolutionary tools
Our Tip of the Week: Grief and loss are deeply intertwined. Why would we grieve anyone if we felt that there was no loss? It can be useful to notice, then, what has been lost. The first thing that may … Continue reading
Posted in Practical Tips
Tagged A Grief Observed, Aging in Harmony, Graceful Mournings, Grief Tip, Hugging, SevenPonds Tips
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”The Work of the Dead” by Thomas W. Laqueur
Thomas Laqueur's epic historical survey reveals insight into how and why we care for the dead
Significant amounts of research have been invested in understanding the grieving rituals of the animal kingdom, but literature examining the role that the human corpse plays in how culture is created and sustained over time has been relatively sparse. That … Continue reading
