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Sara Williams Fights for Affordable Funeral Options: President of Funeral Consumers Alliance, she balances weighty end-of-life issues with humor and candor -
Dying Inmates’ End-of-Life Choices Are Routinely Ignored: With our prison population aging rapidly, there are more and more terminally ill inmates not receiving the care that they're entitled to -
“Dying for Sex,” Starring Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate: The FX miniseries - inspired by a true story - is raw, real and more than a little raunchy
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Tag Archives: Resilience
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” Directed by Julian Schnabel
Schnabel's award winning film show us we can endure and overcome
How expansive is the human mind? How resilient is the human spirit? These are questions few of us ask ourselves as we go about our daily lives. Yet when tragedy strikes, the answers may be crucial to our ability to … Continue reading
“Remnant” by Jean L. Kreiling
Allowing the storm to transform understandings of self and world
“Remnant” by Jean L. Kreiling challenges our desire to go back to the way things were. We all wish for that at some point or another, being tugged out of our comfort zone by life’s insistent and dynamic flux. And … Continue reading
Kifudu Funeral Dance of the Giriama People
This African dance brings communities together to send spirits of loved ones to ancestral realms
The Giriama are an agricultural and hunter-gatherer sub-group of the larger Mijikenda ethnic group who live along the coast of Kenya. One of the distinguishing features of their cultural and spiritual life — and a main reason why they were able … Continue reading
