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Our Annual Seven Holiday Gifts for Someone Who Is Grieving, 2024 Edition: Gracious gifts that spread love and beauty -
“Making Mobiles” by Karolina Merska: An artist’s manual on how to create beautiful Polish pajaki -
“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: Hospice
Till Death Do Us Part: Elderly Couple Leave Life Together
Edward Hale stayed by his wife's side until the New York couple shared their final breaths before dying.
Few can literally say they loved their husband or wife until his or her last breath – but New York resident Edward Hale is one of the rare cases who kept the marital promise « Till Death Do Us Part … Continue reading
Posted in Something Special
Tagged Aging couple, Batavia, Couple, Death, Death of a Spouse, Dying, Ed Hale, Elderly couple, Final breath, Floreen, Floreen Hale, Heart failure, Hospice, Hospital, Marriage, New York, Till Death Do Us Part
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I Answer the Question Most Often Asked: What Made You Start SevenPonds?
For our third anniversary I repost Dying is Not Always a Sad Process, My grandmother's glorious last hurrah
Today is the third anniversary of SevenPonds when we first began by launching our blog. So many people ask me the same question – what caused you to get into this topic of end-of-life/death and dying? So today I repost … Continue reading
Posted in Inside SevenPonds
Tagged Death, end-of-life, Florida, Hospice, SevenPonds, Stomach Cancer
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What is an End of Life Advocate? An Interview with Betsy Trapasso
Betsy Trapasso opens up about how working as an end of life guide has helped her advocate for discussions on death.
Today, SevenPonds speaks with Betsy Trapasso, an end of life guide, advocate and film producer. She has a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Fairfield University. Betsy has many years of experience … Continue reading
End of Life Care Scare: Passages Hospice Charged with Fraud
Illinois’ Seth Gillman over-extended his patients’ care, costing the government a lot of money
Seth Gillman of Lincolnwood, Illinois has been charged with health care fraud for manipulating the end of life care needs of his patients. The owner of hospice and end of life care center Passages, Gillman told his nurses to exaggerate … Continue reading
“Kettering” by The Antlers
A caretaker's haunting story of losing a loved one to terminal illness
Imagine watching the person you love succumb to terminal illness. Hospice, an album by the The Antlers, tells the story of a woman’s end of life. Told through the perspective of her caretaker, the songs teem with harrowing nightmares and … Continue reading
“The Drowned Brother” by Brendan Constantine
Brendan Constantine looks at how bureaucracy helps us cope with loss in "The Drowned Brother"
“The Drowned Brother” is a eulogy-like poem that explores the revelation of the death of a brother in Brendan Constantine’s latest poetic novel “Calamity Joe”. In the poem, the narrator Calamity Joe relates the impersonal actions of the police and … Continue reading
