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Tag Archives: Death Cafe
National Healthcare Decisions Day Is Around The Corner
April 16th is National Healthcare Decisions Day, dedicated to raising awareness about advance care planning
April 16th is National Healthcare Decisions Day, a national initiative to encourage the public and healthcare providers to prioritize advance care planning. Making decisions ahead of a health crisis can help put families at ease and make sure patients’ healthcare wishes … Continue reading
Posted in Something Special
Tagged Advance Care Planning, American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Changing the Face of Dying, Death and Dying, Death Cafe, Dying Well: Jack Fahey, Elder Law Section, Hospice, Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota, Minnesota Elder Justice Center, Minnesota State Bar Association, National Healthcare Decisions Day, NHDD, SevenPonds, Something special, The Clay Lab, The Conversation Project
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What is The Grief Dialogues?
An interview with Elizabeth Coplan about the non-profit artistic movement she created, Part One
This month, I had the pleasure of speaking with Elizabeth Coplan, the brain behind The Grief Dialogues, a non-profit artistic movement dedicated to creating new dialogue about death, dying and grief. The Grief Dialogues started as a live theater event that … Continue reading
What Are Death Cafés?
An interview with Lizzy Miles, host of the first Death Cafe in the United States, Part One
Today SevenPonds speaks with Lizzy Miles. Lizzy works at a hospice center in Columbus, Ohio, and was the first person to host a Death Café in the United States in 2012. The Death Café movement was originally championed by Jon … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Cafe, Cake, Columbus, Death Cafe, Death Cafes, Lizzy Miles, Ohio, Professional Advice, talking about death, talking about dying, tea
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Discussing Death Around the Globe
Coffee houses and conferences draw community who want to discuss death together
Mankind is raising its consciousness when it comes to death. Not only is the subject no longer taboo, it is the main topic of conversation at conferences and cafes around the globe. From Oxford, England’s Death Café, where visitors enjoy … Continue reading
How Can Yoga Help Us Confront Death? An Interview with Camella Nair, Part One
A yoga teacher and swami discusses impermanence
Today, in this first part of a two-part interview, SevenPonds speaks with Camella Nair, a yoga teacher and swami born in England and based in California, about her spiritual journey through yoga over the past 30 years. Camella is certified in … Continue reading
Breaking the Taboo of Death
A long journey from the grim reaper to current Death Cafes
If a person searches the word ‘death’, artists’ renditions of the Grim Reaper appear on the screen—each one depicting a similar figure of a haunting, skeleton figure, enshrouded in a black cloak, drawing us forward with his scythe. These images … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Perspectives
Tagged Black Plague, Day of the Dead, Death, Death Cafe, Death Cafes, Grim Reaper, taboo of Death
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