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What Does an Estate Plan Cover and How Do You Make One? (Interview)
An interview with Attorney Joseph FerrucciToday SevenPonds speaks with Joseph Ferrucci, Attorney at Law P.C., whose San Francisco law office provides a full range of legal services relating to estate planning, estate administration, conservatorship and special needs, and real property. Editor’s Note: This interview has been edited for length and readability. In addition, the conversation contains general information about legal topics. It is…
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A Plan to Learn from Cancer’s Exceptional Responders
A group of scientists will study data from patients who beat the odds in a big wayAs every oncologist will tell you, cancer is an unpredictable disease. Despite rigorous research protocols that map out every aspect of each patient’s treatment, some people with a particular diagnosis do well, while others succumb to their disease in a relatively short period of time. And while researchers are beginning to understand why this is…
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“Aromatherapy, An Introductory Guide to the Healing Power of Scent”
The elusive power of aromatherapy can ease the mental and physical suffering from a terminal illnessI’m a big fan of natural smells. Actually, I adore nature’s smells. I have incense, an essential oil ceramic burner, pure scented candles, sachets in my drawers, and I only use essential oil as my perfume. What is more compelling than aromatherapy, the healing power of scent? When Donna Karan’s late husband Stephan Weiss had…
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“Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More”
Greg Allman’s beautiful tribute song to his brother reminds us to keep on keepin’ on“Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More,” recorded by the Allman Brothers on their their third studio album “Eat a Peach,” was written by Greg Allman after his brother Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle crash in 1971. Most of the music was recorded before Duane died, but it was after his death that Greg penned the…
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New Study Suggests Men Less Likely To Choose Palliative Care
Cultural expectations about gender could play a role in the disparityA new study found that men with cancer were less likely than women to choose palliative care towards the end of life. The findings were published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. Previous research has suggested that men and people with low educational achievement are more likely to still be receiving curative treatment…
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Young Widows Are More Susceptible to Ill Health because They Grieve Longer
Annual physicals lessen the health risks they faceTwenty years ago I read a letter to an editor urging young widows to go for annual physicals. The message jolted me because my 49-year-old husband had died a few weeks earlier. The article convinced me that, for my sake and the sake of my young children, I should see a doctor. He acknowledged I was in…
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“Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer” by Robert Pope
A Canadian artist chronicled life on a cancer ward before succumbing to the disease in 1992Cancer treatment is typically brutal and terrifying. The very nature of the “therapy” is at odds with the concepts of survival or healing. In order to get “well,” a cancer patient must agree to subject her body to a host of things she instinctively fears — radiation, toxic chemicals, mutilating surgery. The experience is not…
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“Do More of What Makes You Feel Alive” by Kobi Yamada
An inspirational book for anyone facing deathThis inspirational book “Do More of What Makes You Feel Alive” by Kobi Yamada and designed by Jill Labieniec is irresistibly brilliant in both its colorful format and its bold, emotionally moving messages. I immediately thought it would make a wonderful gift for someone who has received a terminal diagnosis or even for someone who…
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WWII Twins Ludwig and Julius Pieper, Who Died by Each Other’s Side, are Finally Buried Side by Side
A high school history project led to their reunion in the Normandy American Cemetery in France 74 years after their deathsIn 2016, when Vanessa Taylor, then a high school sophomore in Ainsworth, Nebraska, took on a history project, she and her teacher Nichole Flynn had no idea they were about to shape history as well. As part of National History Day’s Normandy Institute program, the pair set out to research a “silent hero” from their home state. Soon, they found…
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