Tag Archives: Suffering

“On Pain” by Kahlil Gibran

Timeless funeral poem coaches us to meet the lessons of pain with openness
Posted on October 17, 2016 by Juniper Quin (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. So begins Kahlil Gibran’s poem, “On … Continue reading →

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“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

-Mark Twain
Posted on August 30, 2016 by Kristen Capano (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
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We Euthanize Dying Animals, Don’t We?

My grandmother starved to death as the aid-in-dying (formerly assisted suicide) debate continues
Posted on February 10, 2014 by Suzette Sherman (Founder, SevenPonds)

Today I write about a subject that is difficult to tackle. When we end the suffering of an animal we call it euthanasia, but for people, the new term is “aid-in-dying” or what we formerly called “assisted suicide”. This is not … Continue reading →

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