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Can an Ombudsman Help You? (Interview)
Amity Overall-Laib of the National Long Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center (NORC) speaks up about how to find resources to help improve the quality of life in long term care facilities for the elderly and what you can do to help.Today SevenPonds speaks with Amity Overall-Laib, a representative of the National Long Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center (NORC) in Washington DC. Throughout her career she has championed the practice of individualized care and of cultural change for elderly residents living in long term care facilities. In this interview she will be drawing from her current experience…
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The Lady and the Reaper
An award winning short film about a sassy old woman’s journey to the afterlife.Related Sevenponds Articles: Miracle Max’s Expert Advice Play That Funky Music… Anthony Jeselnik: Jokes About Death
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“The Art of Gift Wrapping, 50 innovative ideas using organic, unique, and uncommon materials” by Wanda Wen
Express the depth of your love and concern with a special handmade gift wrappingNow that the holidays are upon us, there’s so much to do: the tree, holiday gifts, food and preparations. In the midst of all this hustle and bustle, there are those who are deep into the depths of a depression over a torn hole in the fabric of their life. All they can focus on…
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Celtic Dreamlands and Burial Rites
How Celts prepared for a wonderous afterlife in the otherworldAlthough many cultures adorn the dead with material comforts like flowers, coffins, and well-pressed suits, these objects are generally meant to benefit those in grief. However, for the Celts, a society that spread across Europe and the British Isles from the Iron Age until the late Roman Empire, these items were necessities that helped the…
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23andMe Says Ancestral and Genetic Knowledge Can Prevent Death
Why the startup that claims to “save your life” is in trouble with the FDAWe’re no strangers to marketing techniques with ambitious promises in America. Every day, we’re seduced by packaging that assures us we’ll be happier, thinner, healthier, etc., if only we buy or consume a company’s service or product. But just how far can a company push its packaging promises? And what gives it the right to…
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“Will You Miss Me when I’m Gone?”
A country music memorial song about missing a loved one who has passed1927 was the year country music first reared its honest, whisky-worn head from the mountains of Appalachia. Radio was already in the process of transforming the way Americans connected to the rest of their country; suddenly lyrical, empathetic voices that had sung of life and death in small-town America could speak to the remotest parts…
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“The Barter”
Joyce Carol Oates sheds light on this important stage of griefIn a recent post, I wrote about the influence of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s Five Stages of Grief; and while reading through the stories of one of Joyce Carol Oates’s collections, Sourland, I came across yet another short story which has, at its center, one of these stages: Bargaining. In “The Barter,” by Oates, a 13 year-old…
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Marc Chagall: “The Death”
With Hanukkah upon us, we look to a painting by the celebrated Jewish artist Marc ChagallIn the spirit of Hannukah (and Thanksgivukkah, because that was pretty neat), we look to the painting The Death (1908) by Jewish artist Marc Chagall. Chagall was born Moishe Segal in the small town of Liozna, Russia in 1887. Life wasn’t easy for the Segal family, in which Moishe was one of nine other young…
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What is Music Thanatology? (Interview)
Sharilyn Cohn of SacredFlight explains the nature of music thanatology, a form of palliative care that uses harp and voice to aid the terminally ill or dyingToday, SevenPonds speaks with Music Thanatologist Sharilyn Cohn from SacredFlight, a nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. She graduated with degrees in Music Performance and Music Education from from the University of Memphis and performed as a professional cellist in Memphis and Atlanta. She first learned about music thanatology on an ABC Nightline program in 1998…
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