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“Garden State”
Loss of mother leads to self-discovery in this quirky indie filmGarden State begins with protagonist Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff) being informed via phone message that his paraplegic mother has died after a tragic bathtub accident. The death serves as a sort of trigger to the rest of the action: when Largeman flies home from Los Angeles to New Jersey to attend the funeral, he simultaneously…
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“Making Toast”
The beautiful, tragic memoir tells the story of a grandfather losing his daughterIn his 2010 memoir, Making Toast, Roger Rosenblatt paints a beautiful portrait of what it means to lose someone too soon. After his daughter, Amy, dies suddenly of a rare heart abnormality, Rosenblatt and his wife move in with their son-in-law to help raise the children she left behind. Through brief vignettes of his day-to-day…
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Coachella Honoring the Dead
The music festival, Coachella honors our dead in quite the interesting and creative way.
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Advance Directives Let You Take Control at the End-of-Life
Do you know what kind of medical care you would want if you were too ill or injured to express your wishes? How do you ensure that your wishes — or the wishes of your loved ones — will be followed in such an event? Across the country on Monday healthcare organizations, compassionate care advocates,…
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How to deal with loss of a loved one? (Interview)
When a child is diagnosed with a serious illness, a myriad of medical, physical, financial, psychological, and social issues are suddenly thrust on a family. While doctors and nurses are busy at work with medical treatments, these medical social workers stand by to field the psycho-social concerns of patients and their families.
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“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
The Poignant Book About A Child Coping with the Loss of His Father Turned into a Poorly-Critiqued Film in 2011In the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning…
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A Glimpse into Contemporary Iranian Passing
As an Iranian-American, I spent the first five years of my life in Tehran before moving permanently to the US. I have experienced both the traditional Islamic Iranian funeral in Iran and the contemporary ceremony in America. Despite the fact that both ceremonies are rooted in the same culture, my perception of each was completely different from…
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