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The Womb Coffin
Project Womb combines ingenuity and beautiful design to help you create the perfect legacyThe Womb Coffin was conceived by designer Diddo as part of Project Womb, a project designed to address the aesthetics of the afterlife. The project brings the conversation about death and the memories of a lost loved one into the same realm we use to discuss and prepare for birth. The name implies the connection between birth…
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“At my age, I’m often asked if I’m frightened of death and my reply is always, I can’t remember being frightened of birth.”
-Peter UstinovImage Credit: Kyle May (Creative Commons)
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“Undertaker Please Drive Slow”
Delving into the grey area between fact and fiction for a compelling memoirIn December 1997, Cheri Tremble made the decision to engage in assisted dying, with the help of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Several years later Jo Ann Beard wrote about it. Cheri, who recovered from breast cancer only to lose feeling in her leg after a botched breast reconstruction surgery and relapse into the cancerous state that…
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Bringing Palliative Care into the Conversation
CSU Institute for Palliative Care addresses the growing need for education and public awareness in the fieldCalifornia State University is tackling a shortage in palliative care workers by launching the first statewide educational and workforce development initiative dedicated specifically to palliative care. With an aging population and an increase in the number of people living with serious illness, health care systems are facing the challenge of providing the care our population…
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“Death, be not proud”
John Donne suggests that death is, in fact, conquerableI once loaned my mom a book of 17th century plays I had just finished, at her request; the same day, she returned it to me, complaining about the difficult “Shakespearean” language in which it was written. The fact is, many people dislike literature of that era for this very reason. The following poem, “Death,…
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Bodybox by Leslie van Berkel
The simple casket is a practical and stylish option for green burialThis cardboard casket designed by Leslie van Berkel in 2006 for Li Edelkoort design academy offers a stylish and cost-effective burial option in an eco-friendly design. Van Berkel, along with her contemporaries, was asked to think of the notion of life and death, and create pieces that reflected various funeral rites and memorial ceremonies. Her…
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What is End-of-Life Planning? (Interview)
Author of “You Only Die Once”Margie Jenkins is nationally recognized for her work with end-of-life planning issues. She has worked for decades as a therapist, and she presents seminars across the country on this topic. In her highly praised book, You Only Die Once: Preparing for the End of Life with Grace and Gusto, Margie calls on readers to talk…
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“Beasts of the Southern Wild”
An imaginative, engaging film about the death of a way of lifeIn the opening sequence of Beinh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, a wildly imaginative independent film set on the Louisiana Gulf Coast, a herd of Ozarks, towering beasts that roamed the earth in the days before the Ice Age, thunder across the screen. These animals have significance to the main character, a young girl…
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