Tag Archives: Life

“The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

- Jack London
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“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

- Ernest Hemingway
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“My life is an open book. But it is very poorly written and I die in the end.”

-Anonymous
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Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It’s Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

- Steve Jobs

 

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

-Martin Luther King Jr.
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