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“Summons” by Aurora Levins Morales: Peaceful activism opens arms for grief and mourning in a beautiful poem -
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AMA Adopts New Policies Expanding Access to Palliative Care: The American Medical Association encourages physicians to offer palliative care, regardless of prognosis
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Tag Archives: Heaven
“The Tenth Good Thing About Barney” by Judith Viorst, Illustrated by Erik Blegvad
A child learns about death after the loss of a pet
“The Tenth Good Thing About Barney,” written by Judith Viorst and illustrated by Erik Blegvad, teaches children about death by discussing the death of a pet cat. The story is told from the point of view of a male narrator … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged cats, Children and Death, Death, Funerals, Grief, Heaven, Loss, The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
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“Death is Nothing at All” by Canon Henry Scott-Holland
Canon Henry Scott-Holland’s poem shows us that a death doesn’t have to leave us with something missing in our lives.
If life is just a game that we play, then death is one of the greatest game-changers there is. Like all the great milestones in life, from getting married to having children, death is a change that is facilitated through … Continue reading
”Suggestion to persons entering heaven: leave your dog outside. Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and the dog would go in.”
-Mark Twain
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged author quotes, Dog, entering heaven, Heaven, Mark Twain, samuel clemmins
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”The connections we make in the course of a life—maybe that’s what heaven is.”
—Fred Rogers
You might also enjoy: “Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.” “It’s being here … Continue reading
”The Five People You Meet in Heaven” by Mitch Albom
A man’s journey through heaven teaches readers the importance of a life cherished
Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven reverses its order by starting with his protagonist’s (an elderly man) death on his own birthday. Then, he carefully intertwines the details of his life through each of his encounters with … Continue reading
“Proof of Heaven” by Eben Alexander, M.D.
Neurologist Eben Alexander describes his “visit to heaven” in a Near Death Experience
“It was like being struck by a freight train,” said neurosurgeon Eben Alexander in his book Proof of Heaven (2012) on the pain he felt at 4:30 A.M. on November 10th, 2008. As both a stubborn husband and a man … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Death, Dr. Eben Alexander, Dying, E-Coli, Eben Alexander, God, Heaven, NDE, Near Death Experience, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Proof of Heaven, Real of the Earthworm Eye, Religion, Sprituality
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