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How Does Hospice Improve Quality of Life? (Interview)
Sheena Boyd illuminates how hospice services can improve the quality of life for clients with terminal diagnosesToday SevenPonds speaks with Sheena Boyd, a former UK hospice worker at St. John’s Hospice in central London. Boyd has had 10 years of hospice experience as a day services manager, where she would help clients maintain a quality of life in the face of a terminal diagnosis. Most recently, she was volunteering with AgeSong…
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Our Weekly Tip: Celebrate Their Stories
Create a reflective space for your memorial ceremony with this walkable photo albumOur Tip of the Week: When you’re planning a memorial ceremony, it can be difficult to pick the right photos of a loved one. Each life is rich and complex, which is why we think this walkable photo album craft makes for a special memorial ceremony experience. How-to Suggestion: This DIY project works best in…
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“Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without“
One woman’s grief over the loss of her husband is shared in page by page momentsThe book, “Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without,“ is visually written to appear like poetry, but it’s not really poetry as we know it. Yet there is indeed something poetic about its approach. More stream of consciousness, with carefully crafted words, that spill out in long threaded lines vertically down each page. The author, Natasha…
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Death and the Birth of the Little Black Dress
An exhibit of mourning attire from 1815 to 1915 at the Met reveals the changing role of a bereaved woman in Victorian culture“Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire,” a current exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is more than just a tour through the epoch of Victorian funeral fashion: It is a look at the changing stature of a woman in Western culture. Elaborate mourning rituals preserved the social order of the time and…
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Say Hello to Heaven: Why People Want to Believe in Near-Death Experiences
One boy’s false tale about visiting Heaven has left the Christian publishing world in an existential crisisWhen 6-year-old Alex Malarkey told his parents he went to Heaven and saw angels, they had no desire to doubt him. Malarkey had just woken up from a coma after being seriously injured in a car crash. Who would accuse an injured child of lying? Certainly not his parents or his publisher. With the help of…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveMemories of how I found your 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…
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Eco-burials: Planting the Seed
Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel envision a cemetery dotted not by headstones but by treesThere’s been a rising trend in the past decade to reduce our end-of-life footprint. It is a hefty task, and one that calls for us to re-evaluate our burial options amongst other things. For many, that means having a “green” or “eco” burial in which use of formaldehyde and non-biodegradable coffins is swapped for more…
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