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The Meaning of a New Year’s Day When You’re Terminally Ill
Taking stock is different when life is about to endToday is New Year’s Day, the day when many of us take stock of our lives and make plans for the year to come. For some of us, this involves New Year’s resolutions — promises to ourselves about living better, happier, more fulfilling lives — that we almost never keep. We make to-do lists of…
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What Is an End-of-Life Planner? (Interview)
An interview with Alua Arthur, Los Angeles based end-of-life planner, Part OneToday Sevenponds speaks with Alua Arthur. Alua is an end-of-life planner who founded Going with Grace to provide consulting services for those facing death and for their families. She is a former lawyer and a trained death midwife whose mission is to help those facing dying and bereavement with everything from emotional support to logistical and legal support.…
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“On Living”
A hospice chaplain writes about life, death and what happens in betweenTo be perfectly honest, I was prepared not to like Kerry Egan’s “On Living,” despite it’s unfailingly positive reviews. I am not a religious person, and I fully expected a book written by a hospice chaplain to be brimming with off-putting references to monotheism, spiritual redemption, and communion with God. But that’s not what happened,…
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“I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Miserables”
A young woman sees her dreams collapse around her“Les Miserables, which features the song, “I Dreamed a Dream,” is a popular musical that opened in London in December, 1985. The producer was Cameron Mackintosh. Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel wrote the lyrics in French, while Herbert Kretzmer translated them into English. Claude-Michel Schonberg composed the music. The work is based on the book…
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New Algorithm May Help To Provide Better Palliative Care
The algorithm predicts when patients may die, which can help palliative care teams to know when to interveneThe ways in which technological advancements can help to improve end-of-life care are numerous. One such breakthrough comes from Stanford University, where researchers recently developed a deep neural network algorithm to help doctors decide when to implement palliative care. The algorithm uses a patient’s medical records to predict their chance of dying within the next three to…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates beautiful hearts as a tribute to enduring loveIt’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of enduring love.The project began in 2005, when Page Hodel first met Madalene Rodriguez and fell “instantly, dizzyingly in love with her.” Soon afterwards, Page began leaving handmade hearts on…
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Why Giving Makes Us Feel Good
Giving gifts at Christmas may be more natural than we thinkGiving gifts at Christmas is a time-honored tradition that dates back several centuries, and is firmly entrenched in most Western cultures today. And while it’s not clear why gift giving became associated with the Christian celebration of Jesus’ birth, it has evolved into a symbol of what we view in our culture as a “Season…
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