Professional Advice - Seven Ponds

Category: Professional Advice

Interviews with experts

When facing end-of-life challenges, you don’t have to navigate them alone. This column brings together voices from across the mortality field—death doulas, grief counselors, medical examiners, child-life specialists, bioethicists, and more. Each expert shares insights on topics that apply to aging, terminal illness, and beyond, covering experiences that span infants to adults. Discover the wide range of professionals available to support you through whatever specific journey you’re facing.

What is Sacred Body Washing? (Interview)

An interview with Ellen Hufschmidt: Chaplain, ritual artist, author, grief counselor and death educator.

13 Heartfelt Ways to Celebrate the Holidays with a Loved One on Hospice Care (Interview)

Lightways Director of Grief and Integrative Therapies, Patrice Martin, shares her advice on celebrating the holidays in hospice care in an interview

Meaningful Things to Consider After the Sudden Death of a Loved One, Prior to Making Final Arrangements (Interview)

An interview with Erica Hill, licensed funeral director and founder of Sparrow, a contemporary funeral home

What is the Dougy Center? (Interview)

The Dougy Center’s Senior Director of Advocacy & Education talks about child and youth peer support, expression, and “post-traumatic growth”

Death: The “Great Equalizer”? African American Deathways and Inequality (Interview)

Death scholar and associate professor Dr. Kami Fletcher gives an interview on the history of death in the Black community.

Family-Directed Home Funerals Are Having a Resurgence (Interview)

Heidi Boucher discusses how an age-old practice has been revived for our modern world