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Our Monthly Tip: Consider Live Music for a Celebration of Life: One musician can make an event as unique as the person you're celebrating -
“Briefly Perfectly Human” by Alua Arthur: A death doula explores what it means to live life authentically while facing mortality -
Neil deGrasse Tyson Prompts Ruminations on Life & Death in New Year: The famed astrophysicist celebrates the precious nature of human existence
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Tag Archives: Life
George Washington on Reflecting About Life and How to Circumvent Regrets
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one"
My Most Unusual Valentine’s Day Ever Resulted in an Epiphany About Life
What the most underrated part of life really is
Boy did I have an unusual Valentine’s Day this year, and it brought to me the most amazing epiphany! This past year resulted in a love not real (that’s the short version), followed by many Valentine’s Day gifts given and … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Drugs and Rock & Roll, Emotions, Epiphany, Gifts, Life, Love, Plutchick's Wheel of Emotions, SevenPonds, Sex, Unusual Valentine's
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Still Alice (2014) by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer
One woman’s life turns upside down with the diagnosis and progression of her early-onset Alzheimer's
Still Alice is one of those essential movies, an instant classic that has an effect on all of its viewers, regardless of their backgrounds. Alzheimer’s and dementia are growing illnesses that have a growing effect on all of us as … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Alzheimer's, award winning films, Death, Dementia, end-of-life, julianne moore, Life, Memory Loss, mental illness, still alice
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Our Weekly Tip: Plant a Tree at a Memorial
Honor life and death with a living monument
Our Tip of the Week: Make the memory of your loved one live on while helping the Earth at the same time. Give young trees or tree seedlings to the attendees at the memorial so they can watch their trees growing … Continue reading
Posted in Practical Tips
Tagged Death, honoring loved ones, Life, Memorial, Memories, monument, reforestation, tree
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”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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“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
-Winston Churchill
More from Laughter is Medicine: There are three kinds of death in this world Morty’s Play that funky music
Posted in Laughter is Medicine
Tagged after-life, Comedy, Death, Death With Dignity, Humor, Laughter, Life, Quotes about Life, Winston Churchill
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