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Author Archives: Suzette Sherman (Founder, SevenPonds)
Our Beautiful Funeral Music Series: Sheltering Sky
Ryuichi Sakamoto's music for the film speaks volumes on the vast desert landscape of life and death
The film, Sheltering Sky evokes the most exotic and memorable moments of life through a musical score perfectly suited as beautiful funeral music. We provide a brief narration from the film to accompany the main musical score: Narrator: Because we … Continue reading
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Funeral Memorial Songs, Funeral Music, Music, Sheltering Sky
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“The Wealth of Your Life”
A handy spiral-bound booklet to prepare your ethical will in writing
An ethical will, or what I prefer to call a heart will, is perhaps the most extraordinary gift someone who is terminally ill can leave to a family member. In its simplest form, a heart will is the act of … Continue reading
It’s Do Not Text and Drive Day
Please stop and think before you text and drive - and help prevent car accident deaths
Did you know today was national “Do Not Text and Drive Day?” Please join the nationwide effort to prevent car accident deaths due to texting while driving. Here’s some facts to make you think twice: FACT #1: Five seconds is … Continue reading
Our Touching Funeral Songs Series: God Will
Johnny Cash sings "God will walk with me down the streets where no one else will"
A sweet hymn and most angelic funeral song, Johnny Cash reminds us God will be there no matter what: God will walk with me down the streets where no one else will walk God will talk with me of things … Continue reading
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Beautiful Funeral Songs, Contemporary Funeral Songs, Funeral Memorial Songs, Funeral Song For a Friend, Funeral Song List, Good Memorial Songs, Memorial Music, Memorial Song, Memorial Songs For Funerals, Our Beautiful Funeral Music, Religious Funeral Music, Religious Songs, Top Funeral Songs
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Bill Moggridge Dies at 69
Co-Founder of IDEO and designer of GRID Compass, the first laptop computer
I awoke this morning to the news in my Facebook thread that Bill Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer, had died. I had no idea he’d had cancer, and I was shocked. As always, the unexpected news is like being socked. … Continue reading
Posted in Just Passed
Tagged Bill Moggridge, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Design, GRID Compass Computer, IDEO
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Do You Want to Live Forever?
Aubrey de Grey is out to prove we can
I was recently introduced to Aubrey de Grey, who’s on a mission to show us how we can live forever and raise the funding needed to start the research process to do so. Sound crazy? Well, if given the chance … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Aging, Aging and Elder Care, anti-aging, Aubrey de Grey, Blade Runner, Death and Dying, Future, Living Forever, Nanotechnology, Physics, Physics of the Future, Raymond Kurzwell, Rejuvenation Research, Research, Science, SENS Foundation, SevenPonds, TEDMED, Western Medicine
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