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Happy Valentine’s Day
To our SevenPonds communityAll of the stars have aligned to wish us a happy Valentine’s Day! And we wish you the best at SevenPonds. For Valentine’s Day reading you may be interested in past posts: Is “The Widower Effect” True? Also Meet the “Broken Heart Syndrome”. Speaking of Romantic Valentine’s Day Stories – It All Starts With Sex and…
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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
-Clarence DarrowRelated SevenPonds Articles: “I want to die like my father, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming and terrified, like his passengers.” Some People Just Don’t Get Death “The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”
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“Rabbit Hole”
The film follows a couple’s journey with grief after the sudden death of their son“Rabbit Hole” is a 2010 film based on the play of the same name by David Lindsay-Abaire. The story follows a young couple struggling to live with their grief after a car hits and kills their son four-year-old son, Danny. Director John Cameron Mitchell takes an honest look at the path of grief in “Rabbit…
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Love in the Language of Flowers
A look at how floriography conveys different messages of love through the gift of flowersValentine’s Day is right around the corner and for every box of chocolate or card exchanged, there will be an insurmountable number of roses and other floral bouquets gifted to loved ones in celebration of this day of love. It is nearly impossible to attribute the origin of the tradition of gifting flowers to any…
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A Complicated Grief: Moby Opens up About Parents’ Deaths
The American artist tells The Guardian how the regrets of the dying influenced his upbringing, family values and views on deathThe Guardian recently spoke with American musician Moby, who revealed what it was like to grow up poor with a single, absent mother in an otherwise ritzy Connecticut town. The artist elaborates on the effects of his parents’ death on his stages of grief, as well as the construction of his own family values. Moby…
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“I Will Follow You Into The Dark”
A lovely tribute song memorializing the inseparable bond of two loversWhen two lovers form an inseparable bond, one of their major fears is facing death alone. Death Cab for Cutie’s “I Will Follow You into the Dark,” written by Ben Gibbard, the lead singer, in less than fifteen minutes, serves as a lovely tribute song for young lovers and their impending deaths. Regardless of when…
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We Euthanize Dying Animals, Don’t We?
My grandmother starved to death as the aid-in-dying (formerly assisted suicide) debate continuesToday I write about a subject that is difficult to tackle. When we end the suffering of an animal we call it euthanasia, but for people, the new term is “aid-in-dying” or what we formerly called “assisted suicide”. This is not an easy subject for me to write about. As one industry expert comes right out…
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“2BRO2B”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. plays with complex themes of aging and death in his 1962 short story “2BRO2B”On the surface, 2BRO2B is an incredibly dark satire portraying a bleak future where death is militantly maintained by the government. As we are introduced to a futuristic society in which death and aging has been cured, and the population is strictly controlled at 40 Million citizens, the scene is ironically set with the words “Everything was…
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Pierre Christin on Images of Death in Comics
French graphic novelist explains how comic book illustrations affect our perception of deathThe French and Belgians love a good bande dessinée (comic book), or, as they’re known more affectionately, “BD.” Historically, the authors and illustrators of their comics have been ahead of the trend in garnering respect for their craft; you could say Francophone comics have long been embraced as a serious form of artistic expression. Even…
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