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  • Octogenarian Author Jane Seskin Offers a Model for Aging and Living Well (Interview)A long life marked by resilience, boldness, humor and caring

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    Mitch Lobrovich

    Octogenarian Author Jane Seskin Offers a Model for Aging and Living Well (Interview)
    A long life marked by resilience, boldness, humor and caring

  • What Is Whole Body Donation? (Interview)The Director of the Willed Body Program at UCSF talks to us about donating a body to science

    What Is Whole Body Donation? (Interview)
    The Director of the Willed Body Program at UCSF talks to us about donating a body to science

    SevenPonds interview with Andrew Corson, Director of the Willed Body Program at the University of California, San Francisco. A division of the UCSF Department of Anatomy, the program provides donated human remains to the UCSF medical and dental schools and a variety of research and educational programs across Northern California. Today Andrew speaks with us…

    Kathleen Clohessy

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  • Our Weekly Tip: Use Loving Kindness Meditation to Find Comfort When You’re GrievingA simple mediation can help ease the pain of loss

    Our Weekly Tip: Use Loving Kindness Meditation to Find Comfort When You’re Grieving
    A simple mediation can help ease the pain of loss

    Our Tip of the Week: When you are in the midst of deep grief, the intensity of your emotions can make it seem that life will never be OK again. Negative feelings may easily become overwhelming, leaving you feeling disconnected from others and terribly alone. At these times, directing loving kindness to yourself and those…

    Kathleen Clohessy

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  • “According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”- Jerry Seinfeld

    “According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
    – Jerry Seinfeld

    Debra L. Stang

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  • “Flight From Death-The Quest For Immortality”Documentary explores the ways death anxiety motivates human behavior

    “Flight From Death-The Quest For Immortality”
    Documentary explores the ways death anxiety motivates human behavior

    In the documentary film “Flight From Death-The Quest For Immortality,” filmmakers Patrick Shen and Greg Bennick explore the uniquely human cognitive problem of being consciously aware of our own mortality: We are living organisms with the ability to recognize that our drive to survive will ultimately fail.  The film begins with a series of short…

    Ellary Allis

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  • “The Promise”Heartfelt memorial song gives voice to loss, longing and remembrance

    “The Promise”
    Heartfelt memorial song gives voice to loss, longing and remembrance

    Tracy Chapman’s song “The Promise” is as much as song of separation as it is of togetherness. As listeners, we can place ourselves in the role of speaker/singer addressing a loved one, but it is just as easy to imagine our loved one speaking to us through these lyrics. The song opens with: If you…

    Juniper Quin

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  • Suicidal Doctors: What Happens When Caretakers Need Help ThemselvesIn the wake of doctors committing suicide, hospitals focus on healing the healers

    Suicidal Doctors: What Happens When Caretakers Need Help Themselves
    In the wake of doctors committing suicide, hospitals focus on healing the healers

    It’s easy to forget that doctors and nurses are people too. Like their ill patients, they get tired; they get hungry; they get frustrated; and they get discouraged. Working so closely with illness and death is a draining experience for those in the healthcare professions, and in recent years, it’s led to an outbreak of physician…

    Marissa Abruzzini

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  • The Confusing Truth About Increasing Cancer RatesThe increased incidence of cancer is not as startling as it seems

    The Confusing Truth About Increasing Cancer Rates
    The increased incidence of cancer is not as startling as it seems

    There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that the incidence of cancer is increasing worldwide. According to recent statistics from the National Cancer Institute, men and women in the United States have a lifetime risk of developing some form of cancer of 40 percent. In the United Kingdom, that risk is 1 in 2, according to…

    Kathleen Clohessy

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  • Monday Hearts for Madalene
    Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of love

    It’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 love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us to 2005: the moment Page Hodel encountered Madalene Rodriguez and fell “instantly, dizzyingly in love with her.” The couple’s first meeting was…

    Suzette Sherman

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  • The Tanatorium Sheds Literal Sunlight on Grieving FamiliesAn architect builds a space for families to remember loved ones in peace

    The Tanatorium Sheds Literal Sunlight on Grieving Families
    An architect builds a space for families to remember loved ones in peace

    When you think of a death-centered art project, you probably don’t picture a massive concrete building. Yet this is exactly what architect Juan Carlos Salas created when he designed a unique tanatorium (literally “mortuary”) located on the outskirts of Zaragoza, Spain. On the surface, the tantorium is an unassuming white concrete building with no intricate carvings or design details…

    Marissa Abruzzini

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