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The Link Between Grey Matter and Blood Type in One’s Risk for Alzheimer’s
Researchers in the U.K. discover which blood type has the lowest risk for Alzheimer’s diseaseThe longer we live, the greater the likelihood we will develop some type of cognitive decline. The brain, like our other body parts, isn’t immune to the eventual decline on the road to death. While it is virtually inescapable the longer we live, a new research study at the University of Sheffield in the United…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveWedding Bells & Love Tolls for Us Too It’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us to 2005: the moment Page Hodel encountered Madalene Rodriguez and fell “instantly, dizzyingly in…
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Witnessing the Changes Around Funerals and Burials
My evening attending a discussion on new practices and needed policiesI attended a recent event in San Francisco to help support the green burial and natural death care movement. For those who are unaware of just what green burial is you can read about it on SevenPonds here or natural death care here. Janelle Orsi of The San Francisco Sustainable Economies Law Center sponsored an…
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A Moment of Life and Death
Sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch vanitas paintings weave life and death into a single, still momentLife is fleeting, and death apparently eternal. Still life paintings that came out of the Netherlands in the late 1500s through the 1700s, known as vanitas, gather symbolic objects of death into a memorialized moment, halting the processes of both life and death in a tangle of visual thought. What started out as paintings of…
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What Happened When an Assisted Living Facility Was Abandoned with Residents Still There? (Interview)
A true story that broke our hearts becomes a film “If We Left”Today SevenPonds speaks with Miles Maker, both an Executive and Creative Producer for an (in process) film titled “If We Left.” The film is based on a true story that has received much national coverage. Valley Springs Manor, an assisted living facility in Northern California’s San Mateo County, was forced to close down due to…
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A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut talks to readers about the meaning of lifeKurt Vonnegut is undeniably funny, and so is A Man Without a Country. But Vonnegut’s sort-of-memoir goes beyond wry witticism. He distills all that he has learned in his decades on this planet into this one short book. It’s a glimpse into the mind of one of the greatest authors who has ever lived. As…
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Irish Hunger Memorial
A piece of Ireland in Manhattan helps visitors contemplate world hungerThe Irish Hunger Memorial, located in the midst of Manhattan’s financial district, commemorates the Great Irish Famine that took the lives of up to a million people in Ireland — and drove so many to New York City. The Memorial was designed by artist Brian Tolle, landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, and the firm 1100 Architect,…
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