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“Wild”
A book redefining what it means to be strong mentally and physically in the face of lossA few weeks ago, I was very pleased to find a book had magically downloaded on my Kindle. I forgot I’d preordered it months ago after reading Cheryl Strayed’s essay, “The Love of My Life.” After her mother died suddenly when Strayed was only twenty-two, she embarked on a series of affairs that eventually…
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Is Space Burial the Funeral Practice of the 21st Century?
Celestial service companies launch a symbolic portion of your loved one into outer spaceThe last seconds till take-off feel faster. It’s as if they’re accelerating, pounding, relentless—no, that’s your heartbeat pushing against time, trying to speed it towards the moment that you have imagined for months, maybe years. It’s a dream come true. You have traveled with friend and family all the way to Cape Canaveral to watch a…
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Girl with Terminal Illness Recieves her Final Christmas Wish
Young Delaney “Laney” Brown passed away from a rare form of leukemia on Christmas — but not without the loving presence of her community“My heart breaks right now,” said the Mother of Delaney Brown, a young Pennsylvanian girl who passed away from a terminal illness on Christmas night. The loss of a child is one of life’s greatest tragedies, but at the very least the Brown family says they know their “Laney” passed away in peace, surrounded by…
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Photographer Finds Beauty in Forgotten Cremation Vessels
The majority of photographer David Maisel‘s work focuses on environmentally-impacted sites, which comprise a multi-chaptered series called Black Maps. His most recent collection, Library of Dust, looks at an intersection of aesthetics and ethics, displaying the simple beauty of death and natural transformation, and raising ethical questions without saying a word. Library of Dust is…
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What is Grief Coaching? (Interview)
Grief Coach Dhyanis Carniglia leads those in grief from Heartbreak to HappinessToday, SevenPonds speaks with Dhyanis Carniglia, a certified Heartbreak to Happiness® coach who studied at Aurora Winter’s Grief Coach Academy. She has written two books, Moving Past Grief – My Journey back to Joy and The Chakra Clearing Guidebook. She also teaches dance and writes a blog on grief and recovery. Today she is with us…
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How to Cope with Death
Everyone has their own way of copingMore from Laughter is Medicine: Voltaire’s Famous Last Words After a Priest Asks Him to Renounce the Devil “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying” “My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months…
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“Veronika Decides to Die”
A young woman’s failed attempt to die leads to a journey to discover the importance of living life to the fullest in this novelAs a fan of Paulo Coelho’s much-celebrated and classic book, The Alchemist, I stumbled upon Veronika Decides to Die at a local used bookstore and was intrigued by the topic of the book and the major questions it asks about life and death. Inspired by events from his past, Coelho tells the story of Veronika,…
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Traditional Jewish Burial Rights
How non-orthodox Jews are reclaiming traditional Jewish burial ritualsIt is hard to believe that it was just a few years ago when Hal Miller-Jacobs, a non-orthodox Jew, created “an inclusive Jewish burial society” for the Greater Boston area. The society has already made enormous strides for those in the non-orthodox Jewish community who wish to reclaim the traditional Jewish burial rites. Millers-Jacobs’ journey…
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