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“Hospice matters. The end of life deserves as much beauty, care and respect as the beginning.”

-- Anonymous
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What is a Death Care Midwife? An Interview with Akhila Murphy

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

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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
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 “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.
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“I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don’t have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?”

-Anonymous
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“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

-Mark Twain
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