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The Progression of Burial and Cremation Alternatives
In Europe and Florida, Novel After-Death Disposition Options are Slowly Reaching the PublicToday, our after-death disposition choices in the U.S. are almost exclusively limited to cremation and burial. When most people think of burial, they think of full-casket funerals in a conventional cemetery with an embalmed body, suits, flower wreaths, and a gravestone. All of this can be expensive and environmentally unsound. Cremation, often a far more…
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“Ringer” by executive producers Peter Traugott and Pam Veasey
Cult series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” provides an honest, unflinching portrayal of the loss of a loved oneThis past week marked the triumphant return of actress Sarah Michelle Gellar to the small screen, as her new thriller/drama Ringer premiered on the CW to strong reviews. Ringer has Gellar playing twins Bridget and Siobhan, sisters with very different lives but similarly checkered pasts. The pilot was promising, and media has been abuzz over…
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Finally Charlie Sheen dies
His Last Two and a Half Men EpisodeSpoiler Alert As most fans expected, the season premiere of Two and a Half Men started with a bang, in the form of a funeral. Charlie Sheen’s loosely based character, Charlie Harper, was killed off after he slipped in front of a train in Paris and, as his mentally unstable fiancé explained, “exploded like a balloon…
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“The Dead” by James Joyce
James Joyce shows us the importance of equilibrium between past and presentThis past week in my Twentieth Century Literature class, we discussed “The Dead,” a short story by James Joyce that is part of his larger work, Dubliners. I remember borrowing this book from the library one summer in high school, to read for fun, and being thrown by Joyce’s use of dashes instead of quotation…
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In Lieu Of Flowers, A Conversation For the Living
A Personal Favorite Book of Stories About LossCertain books just stick with you, long after you turn the last pages and put them back on the shelf. In Lieu of Flowers, A Conversation for the Living by Nancy Cobb is one of those books for me. I read it many years ago, and as I pull it off my bookcase, overflowing with…
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Art to Honor Lost Children
Asher’s “Toy Box” Finds Unexpected Beauty Left Behind in GraveyardsThe artist Asher has a knack for capturing unexpected beauty in the graveyard. He’s been photographing in these sites for years, with some results that have even surprised him. Today, we are lucky enough to have the opportunity to share some pieces from the collection Toy Box, as well as offer you the chance for…
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What is Integrative Medicine? (Interview)
She Introduces the Emerging Practice of Private Medical Advocacy and GuidanceI sat down with Lael Conway Duncan, MD, to discuss her work at Good Medicine, a group of healthcare professionals focused on the emerging field of private medical advocacy and guidance in the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating with honors from the University of Washington Medical School in the early nineties, Dr. Duncan started…
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Green Burial Makes its Way to South Africa
Last month, South Africa opened the country’s first green cemetery. Weisenhof Legacy Park was created within the oldest privately-owned nature reserve in the country. The park set aside a portion of its space for burial and memorial sites. It will remain a nature reserve, but the designated portion, previously agricultural land, will now be available…
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“The End”
Rabindranath Tagore’s poem reminds us that those we lose are always with usMy grandma died a little over four and a half years ago; it’s hard to believe it’s been that long. She is, to this day, my role model, undoubtedly one of the sweetest, most loving people I have ever known. And she could read me like a book: I think this is what I miss…
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