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“Pleasure Healing: The Hand-Sized Guide to Self-Healing”
Step-by-step mindful practices for starting a new life after griefDuring a recent visit to the Kabuki Gardens of San Francisco’s Japantown (where I’d stopped in for a Swedish massage), I picked up the delightful read Pleasure Healing: Mindful Practices & Sacred Spa Rituals For Self-Nurturing. As I waited for my masseuse to come collect me, I nestled into one of their cozy lounges, poured myself…
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A Street Artist’s Memorial to Homicides
Artist Swoon honored the missing women of the Juarez femicides with a portrait of an early victim.In 2008, the artist Swoon, known for her life-size wheatpaste prints and cutouts of figures displayed throughout the streets of New York City, created a memorial to the victims of female homicides in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez. As with many of her other pieces, this one popped up overnight on the streets…
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A Dying Girl Shares Her Bucket List, and In Doing So Gains a Chance at Completing It
Alice Pyne’s Blog About Her Struggles With Cancer Has Touched A Worldwide NerveOne week ago yesterday, Alice Pyne, a 15-year old girl from Ulverston, U.K., started a blog called Alice’s Bucket List. The tagline reads: “I’m 15 and I have terminal cancer. I’ve created a bucket list because there are so many things I still want to do in my life … some are possible, some will…
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Baumschulenweg Crematorium
Architecture of crematorium incorporates healing, peace into space.Designed by renowned architects Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank and completed in 1999, the Baumschulenweg Crematorium in Berlin, Germany remains one of the most outstanding contemporary buildings in the city. Although bearing the title “crematorium”, the tranquil space offers far more to those mourning the deceased than its stated function of cremation. On first site,…
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AIDS at 30 Years — Positive Developments at Last
Thanks to Aggressive Spending Initiatives, Worldwide HIV Infections Are Leveling Off, But Many Challenges Lie AheadA cure for AIDS has been discovered, if only for one person. After receiving a bone marrow transplant from an individual with a genetic immunity to the disease — about one percent of Caucasians carry such an immunity — Timothy Ray Brown, also known as The Berlin Patient, stopped taking his AIDS medication, and he…
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The Detroit Triangle of Death Changes
The passing of Jack Kevorkian on Friday was particularly profound for me; not only because I hold a special place in my heart for the issue he championed, aid-in-dying — but also because Kevorkian resided in Michigan, near my hometown. Jack Kevorkian was part of what I refer to as the “Detroit triangle of…
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Today: Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Pioneer for Physician-Assisted Suicide, Dies at 83
While “Dr. Death” has passed on, his aid-in-dying legacy continues“Dying is not a crime” —Dr. Kevorkian As the topic of aid-in-dying heats up across the nation like never before, it seems fitting that Jack Kevorkian departs us — the man who first sparked the public debate on (so-called) “physician-assisted suicide” and medical ethics. A greatly contentious figure in life, most supporters of end-of-life rights…
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Is There a Disparity at the End of Life?
The Ongoing Controversy Facing Hospice Care: For Profit vs. Non-ProfitIn the midst of our nation’s perpetual health care debate, one small corner of the industry should not be overlooked, and in its way, exemplifies many of the same arguments: the balance between a person’s basic human rights and costly medical procedures, the benefits and draw backs of for-profit services, and the challenges inherent in…
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What is Aid in Dying? (Interview)
Compassion & Choices talks to SevenPonds about advance directives, aid in dying, and beginning the conversation…Compassion & Choices is an end-of-life education and advocacy organization dedicated to assisting the terminally ill and enhancing end-of-life options, including aid in dying. Carole van Aelstyn is the Client Support Coordinator for Northern California. She has been a nurse for over 24 years, including 10 as a hospice worker. Aurora: What does Aid in…
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