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What Is The Benefit of A Member Owned Cooperative Funeral Home? (Interview)
The Co-op Funeral Home of The People’s Memorial’s Managing Director discusses the cooperativeToday is SevenPonds interview with Nora Menkin, Managing Director of The Co-op Funeral Home of The People’s Memorial in Seattle. The Co-op Funeral Home of People’s Memorial is one of the only cooperative funeral homes in the country, and here Nora talks about its origins, how it works and how she became involved. Ellary: I…
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Our Weekly Tip: Include Ancient Ancestral Practices in Funeral or Memorial Services
Ancestral practices tie the living to the dead across time and placeOur Tip of the Week: In this age of secular dying and grieving, many people struggle to find meaningful ways of memorializing their loved ones that don’t lean on a superficial spirituality or empty platitudes. If this resonates with you, and if you do not have a daily consciousness and connection to your ancestral lines,…
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“The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing,”
A collection of powerful poems focused about loss and healing from lossThe Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing is a collection of 150 poems on the heartbreaking, confusing, universal and inevitable experience of mourning, compiled by American poet and Emory University professor Kevin Young. It is a rarity in the world of poetry anthologies, where there’s a noticeable dearth of collections that focus on loss…
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“I’ll Fly Away”
Covered by countless artists, this hymn stands the test of timeThis is black history month and so I have uplifting gospels on my mind. Sometimes, simplicity is everything. When you’re grieving the loss of a loved one, or you’re coping with your own mortality, nothing is more soothing than a handful of clear, uplifting words. This is the concept behind Albert E. Brumley’s “I’ll Fly Away.”…
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The Incidence of Dementia in Various Racial and Ethnic Groups
A new study looks at dementia incidence between six racial and ethnic groups over a period of 14 yearsThe National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA), signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2011, is a multi-pronged effort to address the many challenges facing people with Alzheimer’s disease. The goals of NAPA are: to improve early diagnosis and the coordination and care and treatment for the disease; to coordinate with international bodies to fight Alzheimer’s…
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Mortality Risk Assessment: A Tool for Planning End-of-Life Care
Nurse practitioners make inroads in advanced care planningA recent study from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners shows that sharing realistic information with patients about their medical prognosis helps facilitate discussions about end-of-life care. The study, published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners on Oct. 25, 2015, also examined the impact of advanced care planning on patient attitudes…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveThe Gears of My Love For You Never Stopped When You Departed 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…
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Literal and Figurative Wounds in Frida Kahlo’s “La Venadita”
The painting is one of the artist’s clearest interpretations on death and sufferingChoosing just one Frida Kahlo work about death isn’t an easy task. The artist flirted with death in nearly every painting she released, owing to her numerous near-death experiences. One of my favorite Kahlo paintings is also one of her most literal interpretations of her hardships and the inevitability of death. “La Venadita” (which translates…
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