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“This grand show is eternal. The dew is never dried all at once; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
- John Muir (1838-1914)
More from “A Rite of Passage”: Funeral Music: “Today’s The Day” by Lucy Kaplansky Memorial Music: “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel Memorial Music: “Gaudeamus Igitur” is a tongue-in-cheek graduation song that tells us to make … Continue reading
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Death, Death Quote, John Muir, John Muir quotes, John Muir sayings, Muir, Muir woods, Nature and death, Sayings About Death
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The Busting Cancer Project
Australian women and The GroundSwell Project launch an intimate, powerful art workshop for cancer awareness
The Busting Cancer project is a unique arts workshop for breast cancer survivors in Western Sydney, Australia. The project began almost five years ago and is the brainchild of Australian artists Cassandra Hard-Laurie and Niki Read. The two women collaborated … Continue reading
How Can You Arrange an End of Life Celebration Through a Cremation Service Provider? An Interview with Ronette Leal McCarthy
Ronette Leal McCarthy shares with us the insights of creating a special end-of-life ceremony.
Today SevenPonds interviews Ronette Leal McCarthy, an Illinois licensed attorney and counsel at Elements, the cremation company. Ronette earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and Chicago. She earned her Juris Doctorate from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Ronette … Continue reading
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
In writing on her mother's death, French writer Simone de Beauvoir touched on palliative and end-of-life care questions long before her time
The most remarkable thing about Simone de Beauvoir’s A Very Easy Death (1964) is its author’s deft choice to seek the ordinary. Beauvoir’s is not a story we haven’t heard before — mother is diagnosed with cancer; children struggle by … Continue reading
Predicting Parkinson’s?
Oxford scientists say a new “resting state fMRI” scan can detect onset of Parkinson’s
An Oxford study in last week’s Neurology brings new hope to the prospect of detecting Parkinson’s disease in its earliest stages. Currently, the disorder has no cure, remaining one of the most painful chronic illnesses due to its gradually degenerative … Continue reading
A Will For The Woods by Amy Browne, Jeremy Kaplan, Tony Hale, and Brian Wilson
Explores the growing natural or green burial movement
The film A Will For The Woods answers one of the most asked questions I get — just what is green burial? (For the answer, see links at the end of this post). Few are familiar with this age-old concept … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged A Will For The Woods, Death, Green Burial, Green Burial Cemeteries, Hodgkins Lymphoma, lymphoma, Natural burial
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