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Tag Archives: Death and Dying
What’s Halloween without a Ghost Story?
My true story of a cocktail party in an 1866 haunted house in New York state!
It’s Halloween this month and in honor of one of my favorite holidays, I will repost one of my favorite Sharing Suzette’s from the past. On Halloween, we start to think things like, are ghosts real? Let me start by … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Cocktail party, Death and Dying, Ghost Story, Ghosts, Halloween, Halloween Story, Haunted, Haunted House, Holidays, New York, Old House, West Point Foundry
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The Apocalypse Tapestry of Angers, France
The medieval French tapestry chronicles biblical scenes of heaven and death
In the belly of the Chateau d’Angers in Angers, France, hangs one of the world’s oldest vestiges of medieval woven art: the Apocalypse Tapestry. At 328 feet, the tapestry remains one of the largest in the world. But perhaps most … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Angers, Apocalypse, Apocalypse Tapestry, Art, Book of Revelation, Château d'Angers, Death, Death and Dying, Faith, Flemish, France, French, Middle Ages, Midieval, Plague, Religion
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As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
How the Bundren Family’s Journey to Bury Their Dying Matriarch Speaks to Life as Much as Death
Faulkner was a “Southern” writer, in the vein of Flannery O’Connor, but like O’Connor, his works tend to speak to larger themes. His third novel, As I Lay Dying, concerns a relatively simple set of events: the death of the … Continue reading
Giving a Talk at Toastmasters Seems so Benign
But taking about death can be a seriously touchy trigger to those who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder
Recently, I found myself in the position of being in the line of fire to suffer the residual effects of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I had delivered my public talk “Changing the Last Taboo – Death” to my San … Continue reading
Funeral Rites in the Buddhist Tradition
Exploring the ways Buddhists embrace death
Buddhists take a positive stance when it comes to death: the best way to approach it is without fear. On Buddhanet, you can find an abundance of information focusing on the beliefs about death and dying in the Tibetan Buddhist … Continue reading
