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Death Salon Soon to Engage the Curious at Mütter Museum
The Death Salon teams up with Mütter Museum to share ideas, artefacts, and a deathly good evening of food and danceAccording to their website, the Death Salon is a collective of “historians, writers, artists, musicians, death professionals, and armchair researchers shining a light on the culture of death denial by engaging with mortality via various media.” The main minds behind this project include Caitlin Doughty (founder of The Order of the Good Death), Sarah Troop and Megan…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveWishing You Were Here With Me to Jump in Piles of Leaves 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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Art on Death by Edvard Munch
The famous painter pondered life’s end through his signature evocative paintingsIn addition to his most well-known image, The Scream, the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch created a great deal of art pondering life and death. Through the paintings below, he expressed his own grief and experiences with death and the end-of-life, as well as that of mankind as a whole. By the Deathbed This painting shares…
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Talk About Estate Planning
Sharing your estate plans with those who will be affected by them builds intimacy and trustOur Tip of the Week: For many, estate planning is a complex and distasteful endeavour full of legal jargon and a nagging feeling that you’d rather be living your life than planning for its end. However, organizing your estate can be an act of love toward those you will leave behind. Including them in your…
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“The Lonely Funeral” by Maarten Inghels and F. Starik
A documentary about how a Dutch poet and civil servant uphold the dignity of human life with “lonely funerals”For the last 20 years, Ger “Gerry” Fritz, a civil servant living and working in Amsterdam, has been meticulously arranging three pieces of music, a chapel, and flowers for funerals that no one attends. Every year, between 15 and 20 people die alone in Amsterdam, and their backgrounds are as diverse as our time: drug…
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Memorial Diamonds for a Diamond Burial
Swiss company Algordanza will turn cremation ashes into man-made diamondsA company in Switzerland has given new meaning to the sentiment that we carry the dead with us. Algordanza makes carrying your dead with you literally a possibility with their “memorial diamonds.” The Swiss company will compress your loved one’s ashes and turn them into man-made diamonds. The first reproducible diamond synthesis (a diamond produced…
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Author Jackie Collins Is Remembered for Her Tenacity
In the face of terminal illness, her spry spirit shined throughBritish author Jackie Collins died this week after a six-year battle with breast cancer, yet there were few people who even knew she was ill. That’s because the famed writer didn’t want her life to be defined by her illness. She told her close friends and family, but she kept her personal life out of…
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“Song to Woody”
This folk classic pays tribute to one of the icons of the movement“Song to Woody” holds the distinction of not only being one of the most memorable tribute songs in the world, but one of the first songs Bob Dylan ever penned. Its simple, stripped-down acoustics make it the ideal memorial song for remembering the people who influenced us and made us who we are today. This…
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