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“Hands Up to the Sky” by Michael Franti & Spearhead: A surprisingly upbeat song about acknowledging both loss and the beauty of life
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Tag Archives: end-of-life
Planning for End of Life: Final Care After Death
Planning for death is overwhelming. We asked home funeral professional Sally Shannon for insight into your after-death options.
3 Tips for Understanding Your After-Death Options: One of the most important things to consider during your end of life planning is the final care you will receive after death. Home funeral expert Sally Shannon gave us a few tips … Continue reading
”Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”
-Rabindranath Tagore
More from A Rite of Passage: Memorial Music: “The Show Must Go On” by Queen Memorial Music: “Dreams Old Men Dream” by the Cold War Kids Memorial Music: “Will You Miss Me when I’m Gone?” by The Carter Family
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Art, Death and Dying, end-of-life, Grief, Leaves, Life, Memorial Flowers, Poetry, Quotes, Quotes about Life
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Calico Picks Up Steam: Cynthia Kenyon Joins Google ‘Anti-Death’ Project
UCSF geneticist Cynthia Kenyon joins Google’s new biotech company to explore death, aging, and end of life diseases.
This week, it was announced that high profile UCSF geneticist Cynthia Kenyan will be joining the new Google start-up “Calico.” Kenyan is renowned in the genetic research community for exploring anti-aging technology, and her addition to the Google team is … Continue reading
Posted in Science of Us
Tagged Aging, Anti-death, Calico, Cynthia Kenyan, Death, Dr. Kenyan, end-of-life, Google, Google calico, Larry Page, UCSF
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What is a Chaplain? An Interview with David Franzblau
David Franzblau talks about Chaplains and how they help those who are terminally ill.
Today, SevenPonds speaks with David Franzblau, a Chaplain currently working at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, California. He will answer a few of our questions about being a chaplain and will offer some tips that anyone can do. Gabriella: … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Buddhism, Chaplain, Dying, end-of-life, Grief, Health, Hospital, interfaith, Patient, Religion, terminal illness
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As Time Goes By: Chinese Designers Zijina Li and Xueping Chen’s “43 Minutes With Grandma”
Designboom’s Design for Death competition features an interactive urn for cremated remains.
Chinese designers Zijina li and Xueping Chen want to redesign the way we look at urns and cremated remains. Their design, “43 Minutes With Grandma,” was featured by Designboom’s Design for Death competition last April and makes urns much more … Continue reading
Elizabethtown by Cameron Crowe
“Deep, beautiful, meloncholy of everything that happened” Claire Colburn
Films are exits from reality. They allow you to escape into your own fantasy—but they can offer more than just that. Films are a way of broadening our perspectives and of learning things that we have yet to experience. … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Cameron Crowe, Cremation, Elizabethtown, end-of-life, Grieving, Grieving Guidance, Humor, Kirsten Dunst, Loss, Loss of Father, Orlando Bloom
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