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How to help children cope with death? (Interview)
We interview Patricia Murphy, co-founder and director of Josie’s Place in San Francisco, which offers support to grieving children and their parents.
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Die$mart, by Kathy Lane and Christine Hughes
A book exploring the hidden costs of life, death, and everything in betweenSevenPonds reviews Kathy Lane and Christine Hughes’ helpful planning guide Die$mart.
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Hairstylist Vidal Sassoon Dies at 84
Related articles Famed Hair Stylist Vidal Sassoon Dies (myfoxdc.com) Remembering Vidal Sassoon (nytimes.com) Hairstylist Vidal Sassoon dies (bbc.co.uk)
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The Daughter Who Started It All
Every May, I find myself scrambling to finish final papers, study for exams, finish out the school year, and most importantly find something to give my mother. I’ll love my mother more than she’ll ever know, but every year around the second week of May, I end up presenting her with the same corny card…
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Compassion & Choices President to Speak in San Francisco
Compassion & Choices Northern California is hosting its annual public meeting on Saturday, May 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in San Francisco. Barbara Coombs Lee, president of Compassion & Choices, will be the keynote speaker and will discuss “Liberty on the March: News from the Campaign to Expand End-of-Life Choice.”
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Maurice Sendak Dies at 83
I sadly report that we lost Maurice Sendak this morning, who died of a stroke in Danbury, Connecticut. Somewhere, I have a well-worn copy of “Where the Wild Things Are” buried in a pile of books. It was a radical book in its early days. Maurice Sendak changed our concept of a children’s book, creatively…
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Mothers of Invention
Mother’s Day arrives this week, and so I start it off with a post dedicated to our lovely mothers of invention. I will look at three different experiences involving mothers that signify why our national relationship to traditional funeral practices is radically changing. The traditional funeral practice is going away due to its failure to…
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“Alone”
Sara Teasdale’s poem views life as lonelier than deathAs I was reading Sara Teasdale’s “Alone,” I was struck by how much it reminded me of a line from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which I wrote about in this post. In the book, Dumbledore tells Harry, “‘Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without…
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