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  • A Moving Quote From Alphonse DeLamartine About Losing the One You LovePlus a beautiful handmade heart made of flowers from SevenPonds

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    Kathleen Clohessy

    A Moving Quote From Alphonse DeLamartine About Losing the One You Love
    Plus a beautiful handmade heart made of flowers from SevenPonds

  • Our Ongoing List of Touching Funeral Songs: Fire and Rain
    James Taylor sings of loss: “But I always thought that I’d see you again”

    One of the top classic funeral songs about the loss of a good friend: I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never […]

    Suzette Sherman

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  • “Nothing Twice”Discussing "YOLO" and Wislawa Szymborska's "Nothing Twice"

    “Nothing Twice”
    Discussing “YOLO” and Wislawa Szymborska’s “Nothing Twice”

    My sister is among the many, many young people currently obsessed with the phrase, “YOLO”: that’s “you only live once,” if you’re not hip to the lingo. It’s essentially the […]

    Kelly Larsen

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  • Return to the Sea
    Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto aid the artist’s healing through grief.

    Return to the Sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto from John Reynolds & Lee Donaldson on Vimeo. Japanese installation artist Motoi Yamamoto was born in Onomichi, Hiroshima, and worked in a […]

    Dana Sitar

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  • What is the Conversation Project? (Interview)The Conversation Project seeks to share and encourage end-of-life discussion

    What is the Conversation Project? (Interview)
    The Conversation Project seeks to share and encourage end-of-life discussion

      Martha Hayward is the former Lead for Public and Patient Engagement at the Conversation Project, a Boston-based non-profit “dedicated to helping people talk about their end-of-life wishes.” The Conversation […]

    Antal Polony

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  • “My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.”
    -Rita Rudner

    Photo Credit: LOL Comedy TV Flickr

    Kelly Larsen

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  • “A Terrible Thing Happened”A story for children who have witnessed violence or experienced trauma.

    “A Terrible Thing Happened”
    A story for children who have witnessed violence or experienced trauma.

    Sherman Smith saw the most terrible thing happen. At first he tried to forget about it, but soon something inside him started to bother him. Research has shown that children […]

    Dana Sitar

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  • Hinduism: How the World’s Oldest Religion Is Not, Strictly Speaking, a ReligionHindu death rituals are carefully defined and lovingly observed

    Hinduism: How the World’s Oldest Religion Is Not, Strictly Speaking, a Religion
    Hindu death rituals are carefully defined and lovingly observed

    Every culture, and every person within that culture, has a different way of dealing with death. A different set of rules, beliefs, practices, personal and societal rituals, strategies for dealing […]

    Antal Polony

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  • Talking to Kids Facing DeathReporter shares the stories of families who have faced this difficult conversation

    Talking to Kids Facing Death
    Reporter shares the stories of families who have faced this difficult conversation

    Last month, Chicago Tribune writer Barbara Brotman was tasked with writing a story about new research presented in Chicago on “a particularly uncomfortable subject” — how to talk to kids […]

    Dana Sitar

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  • “Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
    -Roland Barthes

    Kelly Larsen

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