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Let’s Have a Discussion About End-of-Life Care
A recent article in the San Jose Mercury News not only let writer Lisa Krieger share the story of her father’s final days with intrigued readers, but also taught the author some valuable lessons about what she considers “a good death.” ” How could the hospital bill for the final 10 days of this frugal…
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“The Bridge”
A documentary that brings attention to mental health, suicide prevention, and the importance of compassionate careThis article discusses themes of suicide. If you are struggling or in crisis, please seek immediate professional support or contact a local crisis service. When we hear news of a recent suicide, whether near or remote to our own lives, everything in us stops still. We naturally think: “why suicide?” Understanding and examining suicidal tendencies…
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“Prospice”
Robert Browning’s poem views dying as a victoryBack in February I wrote about a love sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Today, I’m analyzing a poem by her husband, Robert Browning, who was also a famous poet. The poem is called “Prospice,” which is a Latin term meaning to examine the future, or look toward the future. The title is fitting for the…
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[A]Dressing the Dead: Garments for the Grave
Pia Interlandi is a fashion designer, artist, funeral celebrant, and teacher based in Melbourne, Australia. She often incorporates ideas of death, ritual, and transformation into her unique designs, and has even designed clothing for burial, informed by a fascination with human biology and death as a scientific and psychological concept. While studying Design, the artist began…
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What is mind-body Medicine? (Interview)
Lora Matz has been a leader in the field of Integrative Medicine for many years. She is a psychotherapist, lecturer, and writer who works extensively throughout the country in the area of Mind-Body Medicine and Transpersonal Development. She works in in curriculum and program development with organizations in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) and around the…
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“A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”
A Memoir of a Strange and Unique Life After the Loss of a Loved OneThrough his popular memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, San Francisco author Dave Eggers chronicles his experience raising his younger brother Toph after the family loses each of their parents to cancer. The book is, indeed, at times heartbreaking and staggering. Watching Dave and his older sister navigate their unexpected circumstances while maintaining much…
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Art Guides Children and Parents Through Grief
Author Ann Faison‘s understanding of grief began with her own grieving process after giving birth to her still-born child. She is trained as a visual artist, a musician, and a healer, so her healing process naturally leads to a focus on art. She believes that the best path towards healing is through expressing grief creatively…
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“Mid-Term Break”
Seamus Heaney’s “Mid-Term Break” is raw, realSeamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 for his poetry, and it is no wonder why; his works have their own beauty and rhythm that gives them a kind of musical quality. One of his poems, “Mid-Term Break,” manages to be beautiful despite its tragic content. Its subject is the death…
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