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Tag Archives: end-of-life
Elderly New Zealanders And Their DIY Coffins
Seniors across New Zealand get together to socialize and build their own coffins
According to the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand, the average cost of a funeral there can be between $6,500 and $7,000. A coffin alone can range between $1,000 and $10,000. Now some clever New Zealand seniors have come up with an alternative to … Continue reading
Join Us at the End of Life Resource Fair
Sponsored by the San Francisco Jewish Community Center
The San Francisco Jewish Community Center is featuring its second annual resource fair dedicated to death and dying, Embracing the Journey: End of Life Resource Fair. The event will be held on Sunday, November 13th from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., so mark … Continue reading
“Hospice matters. The end of life deserves as much beauty, care and respect as the beginning.”
-- Anonymous
What is a Death Care Midwife? An Interview with Akhila Murphy: Part One
An expert shares her advice on alternative ways to personally memorialize your loved one
Today SevenPonds speaks to Akhila Murphy, a trained death-care midwife who has been practicing since 2013. Murphy’s job is to help families create beautiful personalized memorial services for loved ones inside their own homes. In this first part of our … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Death, Death-Care Midwife, end-of-life, Family, Final Passages, Full-Circle Living & Dying Collective, green burials, Grief Loss and Bereavement, Guide, Home Funeral, Home funeral rituals, Home funeral service, Hospice, Interview, Life, Loved One, Memorial, Mortuary, Parlor, SevenPonds
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“There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle and a very happy start.”
- Shel Silverstein
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged alive, Death, Dying, end-of-life, Life, Living, Martin Luther King Jr., Quotes, Quotes about Death, Quotes about Life, Right of Passage, SevenPonds, Unknown
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