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Tag Archives: Death
Music Is Life…And Death
Families have their loved one's ashes pressed into vinyl records
Author Kurt Vonnegut once said, “No matter how corrupt and greedy our government and our corporations and our media and Wall Street and our religious and charitable organizations may become, the music will still be perfectly wonderful. If I should … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Cremains, Death, Memorial Art, Music, Music Is Life, Vinyl, Vinyl Records, Vinyly
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Should You Shield Children from Thinking About Their Own Deaths?
Three teenagers talk to their families about how they want to die
Parents of terminally ill children have a tough decision to make: to talk about funeral plans with their child or to shield them from the idea completely. It’s not an easy decision. When the child is a teenager who has … Continue reading
Marks the Spot
Dave Nance's photographic series "Descansos" documents the roadside memorials of the American Southwest
Death, so they say, is inescapable. It is a private affair that plays out in public, and the depths of grief follow the same shifting landscape of public and personal. A death is marked in the public sphere in obituaries, … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged American Southwest, Dave Nance, Death, Descansos, Grave Markers, Grief, Memorials, photography, Roadside Memorials, Tombstones
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Uganda’s Banyankole Tribe’s Death and Burial Traditions
Today we explore some of the unique death and burial traditions of the Banyankole tribe in southwestern Uganda
Contrary to many cultures, the Banyankole tribe, who reside in Ankole in southwestern Uganda, traditionally believed that death did not occur naturally but rather through methods of sorcery, scourge or spite. Therefore, when people died, their loved ones, wanting to … Continue reading
Internal Medicine: A Doctor’s Stories by Terrence Holt
Terrence Holt talks about the most surprising stories of his early medical career in this suspenseful page-turner
When you’ve worked in a hospital’s ICU as long as Terrence Holt has, you learn a thing or two about death. His book, Internal Medicine: A Doctor’s Stories, takes a parabolic twist to gritty stories from hospital residents. While plenty … Continue reading
Into the Woods
Natural German burials rooted in traditional places
Were you to walk into one of FriedWald’s EcoEternity forests in Germany, you may not necessarily know that you had entered a green burial site. No headstones to be seen, no large tombs proclaiming the importance of the interred. You … Continue reading
