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“Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death”
A mortician answers children’s most pressing questions about death and dying in this bookIn “Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?” Caitlin Doughty, a mortician, encourages curiosity about death from readers of all ages. Drawing on science, personal experience and anecdotal evidence, she brings a lighthearted approach to questions that range from the practical to the absurd. Doughty’s latest book may not be appropriate for readers navigating the challenges…
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“You Will Be Found”
The showstopper from “Dear Evan Hansen” convinces the bereaved they are not aloneThere’s a reason the lyrics to “You Will Be Found” have been translated into four languages. The world has embraced this song from the Tony-winning Broadway musical “Dear Evan Hansen.” Though it serves as the anthem for the play’s namesake, a lost teen who suffers from a social anxiety disorder, all of us worldwide cannot help…
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“Crossing the Bar”
Tennyson writes about his own death in this famous nineteenth century poemIn his 1889 poem “Crossing the Bar,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson writes of his impending death. A sandbar in shallow water represents the barrier between life and death in this poem, in an extended metaphor for which the poem is named. “Sunset and evening star,” the poem begins, placing us in the sunset of the poet’s…
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Digital Messages to Loved Ones Reach Out After Death
A growing number of websites and apps are allowing people to document important information, store their funerary preferences and send postmortem digital messages to loved ones. Many, such as Final Wish, came about as the result of encounters with illness or the unexpected loss of a friend or family member. While spending six days in…
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Biohazard Cleanup: An Uncomfortable Subject Explained (Interview)
Today SevenPonds speaks with Emily Kil, co-owner of the biohazard cleanup company Eco Bear. Emily co-owns the brand along with her husband, Raymond Magno. Eco Bear specializes in cleaning an area after a person has died, whether it be a natural death, suicide, crime scene cleanup, or something similar. They also clean homeless encampments on…
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“It’s Ok That You’re Not OK”
In this book, psychotherapist Megan Devine invites readers to rethink their relationship to griefIt’s Ok That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn’t Understand is psychotherapist and grief advocate Megan Devine’s offering to the world of grief literature. In it she draws from her experiences as a therapist and a grieving person who had the tragic experience of witnessing her partner accidentally drown.…
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“Who You’d Be Today”
A country ballad about losing someone before their time“Who You’d Be Today,” a 2005 country song recorded by country music superstar Kenny Chesney, addresses the grief of the song’s narrator after losing someone close to him. The song appears on Chesney’s album “The Road and The Radio,” released in September of 2005. The album debuted at No. 1 on the US Top Country…
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New Research Raises Questions Around Definition of Brain Death
Scientists have restored partial function to 32 pigs’ brains hours after they died – upending our accepted definition of brain death. Using a new system called BrainEx, researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine restored circulation and oxygen flow to the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered for food. While the brains did…
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