Our Monthly Tip: Involve Young Children in a Celebration of Life Event with a Colorful Memorial Lantern Project
Colorful handmade lanterns light up a sad day.
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If you’re planning a celebration of life where young children might be present, one way you can honor their age and include them in the day is to plan a meaningful activity or craft that allows them to participate and express themselves in an age-appropriate way.
Scotland Will Be One of the First in the UK to Regulate Water Cremation
a simulation of the water cremation process
credit: Israkress, Wikimedia Commons
Scotland is soon to join the ranks of countries, including over half of the United States, that offer alkaline hydrolysis, commonly dubbed as water cremation by the funeral industry, as a form of body disposition after death. It will be the first alternative to burial regulated in Scotland since the first cremation in 1895.
More Older People Are Dying From Falls in the U.S.
older Americans are experiencing more falls
Experts argue whether or not the over-prescription of certain medications could be the underlying cause of the increase in fall deaths.
“Life and Death in the Ancient World” at the Tampa Museum of Art
Mask of Father of Comedy Terracotta sculpture; Syria; Hellenistic period, ca. 2nd-1st cent. BCE. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Knight Zewadski to be shared jointly with the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 1988.034.016
Credit: Tampa Museum of Art
Currently on display at the Tampa Museum of Art, the exhibition “Life and Death in the Ancient World” brings together 400 artifacts to draw connections between the contemporary and ancient worlds. Much like the lot of us living today, the museum’s website explains, people in the past were born. They married. They worked the land, went to war. They danced, drank wine, and of course, died. They were just like us.
“A Monster Calls” Movie Review: J.A. Bayona Looks at Terminal Illness and Anticipatory Grief from a Child’s Perspective
A film poster for “A Monster Calls” directed by J. A. Bayona.
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In the 2016 film “A Monster Calls,” directed by J. A. Bayona, a 12-year-old child, Conor O’Malley, portrayed by Lewis MacDougall, endures a complicated and heartwrenching journey through his mother’s terminal illness. Based on Patrick Ness’s novel of the same name and the idea by Siobhan Dowd, “A Monster Calls” uses a unique blend of fantasy and drama to illustrate how people, particularly young children, experience illness and death.
Grieving the Loss of Health
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“We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises…But in a minute, a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity….summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.“ – John Donne
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