Author Archives: Kimberly Lane (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

Should You Consider Organ Donation? An Interview with Marisa Hemenez

Marisa Hemenez of the California Transplant Donor Network speaks with us about the importance of planning ahead for organ donation

Today SevenPonds speaks with Marisa Hemenez who works as a Family Care Services Educator for the California Transplant Donor Network (CTDN) in Oakland. Marisa has extensive experience in and has worked with counseling families as they deal with loved ones … Continue reading

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God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet

Dr. Victoria Sweet shares how medieval medicine and slow medicine can be used in modern hospitals to create life-changing experiences from which both doctors and patients can learn to grow

What is the most efficient strategy of providing health care? Should quality food and one-on-on doctor-patient care be replaced with high tech machines and fast-paced diagnostics? What does it truly take to turn a hospital into a community? God’s Hotel … Continue reading

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Traditional Inheritance and Burial Rites of the Maasai People

Traditional practices of ‘The Father’s Chest’ and Predator Burials in Maasai culture

For the Maasai people, death does not traditionally hold any secrets of the afterlife. Once an individual has passed, their journey has ended. All of their possessions and any of their sins are transferred to the loved ones who survive … Continue reading

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”Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

- Rumi

Read more from “A Rite of Passage” here.

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“At the Funeral” by Mark Twain

Mark Twain offers us some lighthearted guidance on how to act at a funeral in his 1881 essay “At The Funeral”

For some, death has a unique way of not only modifying your perspective of a person but also altering your understanding of your own relationship with him or her. You may find that suddenly, after passing, an acquaintance has become … Continue reading

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What is a Dementia Provision? An interview with Mike Turbow

Mike Turbow shares how his professional and personal experiences in dealing with death have helped seek out a solution to help others take control of their own deaths

Today SevenPonds talks with Mike Turbow, who has 40 years of experience as a practicing oncologist and more than 25 years of experience as a hospice medical director at Stanford University. Although he no longer practices medicine, Mike is an … Continue reading

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