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Tag Archives: Death
Our Weekly Tip: Estate Planning During the Holidays
What better time to talk about something that concerns the whole famiy: death and estate planning
Our Tip of the Week: San Francisco’s O’Grady Law Group raised a pretty good question this month: Why not bring up the topics of death and estate planning during the holiday season? It is, after all, the one time of … Continue reading
Posted in Practical Tips
Tagged Death, Estate planning, Estate Planning Tips, Holiday tips, Tips
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
A young woman's funny, heartfelt memoir of working as a mortician and revolutionizing how we think of death
From her opening line “A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves,” I could tell this isn’t your run-of-the-mill memoir. Caitlin Doughty’s Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory is at once laugh-out-loud funny and … Continue reading
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“Love Box” for Children in the Stages of Grief
An easy healing craft to help kids express their grief
Our Tip of the Week: There are plenty of DIY activities out there for those who are grieving – remembrance quilts, balloon releases, etc. But what about activities specifically made for children in the stages of grief? It’s important to … Continue reading
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Tagged Art therapy, Children, Children in grief, Death, Grief, Grieving, Grieving kids, Heart, Stages of Grief
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Atul Gawande Says Doctors And Patients Should Stop Running From Death
The physician explains that patients often live longer when they opt out of unecessary medical interventions
Holding onto life is our most basic and natural instinct. If we have every medical treatment that can extend life at our fingertips, why not use it? Physician Atul Gawande disagrees. In his latest book Being Mortal, he questions whether these … Continue reading
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Tagged Atul Gawande, Daily Show, Death, Death and Dying, Design, Diana Athill, End-of-life care, Hospice, Quotes about Death
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Our Weekly Tip: Memorial Photo Album
Rethink the traditional photo album by creating a beautiful memorial album for a loved one
Our Tip of the Week: We’ve all experienced it. You’ll be dusting the impossible reaches of your bookshelf as it catches your eye: the old family photo album. It’s a bit of a relic — you probably only flip through it … Continue reading
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Tagged album DIY, Celebration of Life, Death, Memorial, Memorial album, memorial DIY, Memorial ideas, photo album
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