• Our Annual Seven Holiday Gifts for Someone Who Is Grieving, 2023 EditionFinding a special gift for a friend who recently lost a loved one

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    Our Annual Seven Holiday Gifts for Someone Who Is Grieving, 2023 Edition
    Finding a special gift for a friend who recently lost a loved one



  • “My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more.”
    -Walter Matthau

    Photo Credit: myzerowaste.com

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  • How Ancient Nordic Viking Funeral Burials Reflect Common World Traditions
    Contrary to pop culture depictions, Norse burial funerals were conservative affairs reflective of religious belief

    While the words “Viking Funeral” may call to mind images of grandly burning pyres, warrior heroes laid to waste, set to sea to have their ship lit from afar by […]

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  • Natural Transitions Helps Teach Your Green and Holistic End-of-Life Care Options
    A resource for end-of-life and after-death care

    Natural Transitions is a Boulder, Colorado-based non-profit resource center providing education on conscious, holistic, and eco-friendly approaches to end-of-life and after-death care. The organization works with families and communities to educate […]

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  • “Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.”
    -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    Photo Credit: Be in the Know

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  • Happy New Year’s Eve
    As we bid farewell to 2012 we welcome the new beginnings of 2013!

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  • “A Song for New Year’s Eve”William Cullen Bryant compares the end of the year to the end-of-life experience

    “A Song for New Year’s Eve”
    William Cullen Bryant compares the end of the year to the end-of-life experience

    It’s the end of the year; what a fitting time for a blog about, well, “the end.” And just as fittingly, this week’s selection is “A Song for New Year’s […]

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  • Art and the Death Penalty
    Artist Julie Green’s “The Last Supper” exhibit makes a major statement about the death penalty

    Photo Credit: Joan Mitchell Foundation In an effort to illuminate the gravity of the death penalty issue, Julie Green, an associate professor of art at Oregon State University, has painted […]

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  • How Do We View Aging in Our Society? (Interview)The Eden Alternative program eliminates the plagues of long-term care facilities for elders

    How Do We View Aging in Our Society? (Interview)
    The Eden Alternative program eliminates the plagues of long-term care facilities for elders

    Today we talk with Dr. William Thomas, a Harvard-educated physician, board-certified geriatrician, author of Tribes of Eden and founder of The Eden Alternative, a program that seeks to remake the experience […]

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  • Most people can’t bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays…How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

    Most people can’t bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays…
    How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

    – Mark Twain Image by Prashanth dotcompals (Creative Commons)

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