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Life and Death Matters Festival Kicks Off Tomorrow
The first-annual Life and Death Matters Festival begins tomorrow at the Nomad Theatre in Boulder, Colorado, and runs through Sunday, September 4th. The festival, which was conceived last fall as a platform for filmmakers who addressed the journeys of life and death, features twenty-seven films, nine original plays, and more than twenty educational seminars, community…
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The Passing of Burning Man’s Urban Planner
Rod Garrett, renowned urban planner behind the annual Burning Man Festival, passed away on August 23rd at the age of 74. As Burning Man’s numbers swelled, well beyond the 20-strong gathering around a 1986 bonfire on San Francisco’s Baker Beach, or the 10,000 or so who made the first pilgrimage to the Nevada Desert in…
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Joining the 27 Club
It is a story as old as any: a creative genius laid low by the fruits of their own talent. More than anyone else, the death of Amy Winehouse, an undeniable musical talent who reinvigorated a genre and won fame perhaps far earlier than she should have, has been compared to that of Kurt Cobain.…
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Robert Ettinger Passes From his First Life
Robert Ettinger, the father of Cryonics, passed on July 23rd. For details on the cryonic process Ettinger scientifically proved possible (which involves slowly freezing the body, followed by suspension in a container of liquid nitrogen), click here. Life brings themes into our lives, and for me, Cryonics is one of them. First, I’m a young girl…
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MLK Memorial Opens to Public in Washington, D.C.
Monday was the soft opening for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The 30-foot-tall memorial is the first in the Mall to honor an African American, as well as the first to honor a person who has not served as president of the United States. The memorial,…
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Celebrity Death Hoaxes
One morning this week I opened up my Yahoo! Instant Messenger account and read the latest celebrity hoax – Jackie Chan is dead. Jackie Chan is dead?! I never knew he died. I am always out of the loop on these kinds of antics. But I ask you, our readers, just what is up with…
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“From a Train Window”
Nature reminds us that death is part of her poetryWhen I was fourteen, my family went on a vacation to Ireland. We drove through the much-too-small roads in a much-too-big rental car: a Mercedes van that seated ten. It sometimes felt perilous weaving through quaint little towns in a car that would have been considered oversized even in America, but that didn’t stop…
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Shine On Brightly: The Art of Reverence
Shine On Brightly offers artist-created cremation vessels and custom memorial art pieces to honor the deceased. Their mission states: “We believe that art has the power to heal, to unite, and to express felling when words sometimes can’t be found.” The company was launched in 2008, an attempt to respond artistically to the changing attitude…
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An Interview with Jerrigrace Lyons
Jerrigrace Lyons is a family funeral guide and educator—one of the original pioneers of the home funeral movement. She is a founding member of the Home Funeral Alliance, and the founder and director of Final Passages, through which she both guides families and certifies home funeral consultants. In this introduction to her two-part interview with…
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