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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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Our Weekly Tip: Try Hypnosis For Complicated or Chronic Grief
Hypnosis works with the subconscious mind to help you move through grief
Our Tip of the Week: Grief is the natural emotional response to loss, and the temporary painful emotional states that typically arise while you’re grieving are actually your psychological tools for processing the loss. Though the anxiety, helplessness, anger, and sadness … Continue reading
Immunotherapy drug Keytruda Tops Chemo in Lung Cancer Study
FDA may offer the drug to more patients based on promising results
Researches have stopped a study of Keytruda (pembrolizumab) the immunotherapy drug that former president Jimmy Carter says helped stop the progression of his advanced melanoma, because the medication is so effective that they want to offer it to all the patients in … Continue reading
”Flight From Death-The Quest For Immortality” by Patrick Shen
Documentary explores the ways death anxiety motivates human behavior
In the documentary film “Flight From Death-The Quest For Immortality,” filmmakers Patrick Shen and Greg Bennick explore the uniquely human cognitive problem of being consciously aware of our own mortality: We are living organisms with the ability to recognize that … Continue reading
“Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.”
- Jean Cameron
Gillian Welch’s Neo-Traditional Hymn “I’m Not Afraid To Die”
A simple tune, a deep well of comfort
The first time I heard Gillian Welch’s achingly lovely neotraditional folk song “I’m Not Afraid To Die”, I heard it sung in harmony by my dear friend and her dying father. He was in hospice at home in Santa Fe, lying … Continue reading
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Tagged americana, Beautiful Funeral Songs, best contemporary funeral songs, Death and Dying, Expressive Music, Funeral Songs, Gillian Welch, Hell Among The Yearlings, hymns, I'm Not Afraid To Die, May The Work I've Done Speak For Me, neo-traditional folk, SevenPonds
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Californians May Now Opt for “Death with Dignity”
The state's End of Life Option Act goes into effect June 9, 2016
On June 9, 2016, California will become the fourth state in the United States to enact legislation that allows physicians to aid terminally ill patients in ending their lives. The legislation, known as the End of Life Option Act, was … Continue reading
