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How Can You Arrange an End of Life Celebration Through a Cremation Service Provider? (Interview)
Ronette Leal McCarthy shares with us the insights of creating a special end-of-life ceremony.Today SevenPonds interviews Ronette Leal McCarthy, an Illinois licensed attorney and counsel at Elements, the cremation company. Ronette earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and Chicago. She earned her Juris Doctorate from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Ronette serves as in-house legal counsel to Elements, the cremation company, which provides cremation services throughout…
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“I have a long-standing friendship with death. When it comes, I will ask her to sit down and relax, then I’ll suggest to her champagne. Because, in fact, I’m a coward.”
– Salvador DaliYou may also like: George Carlin Gives Us Some Straight Talk on Death Planning Ahead “If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.”
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“A Very Easy Death“
In writing on her mother’s death, French writer Simone de Beauvoir touched on palliative and end-of-life care questions long before her timeThe most remarkable thing about Simone de Beauvoir’s A Very Easy Death (1964) is its author’s deft choice to seek the ordinary. Beauvoir’s is not a story we haven’t heard before — mother is diagnosed with cancer; children struggle by her side during the treatments and surgeries until, six weeks later, she dies. It’s the…
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The Chinchorro Created Mummies Thousands of Years Before the Egyptians
The ancient Chinchorro people from South America may have been the first to explore mummificationWhen most people hear the word mummification, they probably think of Ancient Egypt. They probably recall the Egyptian kings, their pyramids and their golden sarcophagi. But few people consider—or even know about—the Chinchorro people and their mummification practices. And why should they? Because the Chinchorro mummies predate their Egyptian counterparts by more than 2,000 years.…
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Should We Have the Right to Choose Our Deaths?
Assisted dying opens a difficult question on whether we should choose our own deaths or facilitate others’Should someone with terminal illness, chronic pain or an otherwise severely compromised quality of life have the right to choose the time of his or her own death? How should they decide? Who should help them? How should they do it? These difficult and very real questions arise from one of the most controversial issues…
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“Gaudeamus Igitur”
A tongue-in-cheek graduation song that tells us to make the most of life before we dieSummer’s here. The school year’s over and many of our siblings, friends, children and grandchildren are graduating from university. Just imagine the opportunities before them. What will they do next? Where will they go? Whom will they meet? As their new lives embark, we wish them the best. May their dreams come true. Some of…
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Predicting Parkinson’s?
Oxford scientists say a new “resting state fMRI” scan can detect onset of Parkinson’sAn Oxford study in last week’s Neurology brings new hope to the prospect of detecting Parkinson’s disease in its earliest stages. Currently, the disorder has no cure, remaining one of the most painful chronic illnesses due to its gradually degenerative nature. Although there are medications available to offset Parkinson’s symptoms—such as shaking, slowed movements, speech…
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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveIn Memory of the 8th Anniversary of Madalene’s Death Every week, 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…
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