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  • Our Monthly Tip: Create a Unique Handmade Candle for Your Grieving FriendInvite them to light the candle each time they think of their loved one

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    Celeste Willis

    Our Monthly Tip: Create a Unique Handmade Candle for Your Grieving Friend
    Invite them to light the candle each time they think of their loved one

  • The Legal Progress of Aid in Dying
    Does an Election in Vermont Suggest a Changing Political Reality?

    There are a handful of issues in American politics that consistently enflame passions, aggravate divisions, and defy solutions. Debates over the death penalty, abortion, and Second Amendment protection call into […]

    Antal Polony

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  • [Don’t let me leave you, I may die]
    by Kseniya Marennikova (translated by Daniel Weissbort)

    Don’t let me leave you, I may die faster than they think, because what is death. just a walk in the cold just a walk in the cold in an […]

    Aurora Wells

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  • Honoring Life at DeathEnd-of-life evolution in America

    Honoring Life at Death
    End-of-life evolution in America

    America is beginning to rethink the way it bids farewell to life.  Traditional burial services are becoming less and less common as people begin to think of the funeral as […]

    Dana Sitar

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  • “Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
    – Teilhard de Chardin

    Aurora Wells

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  • The Science of Death
    How we measure life through time and space

    As each of us reaches a point in life where our own mortality begins to signal our radars, the measure of our life by “time” becomes ever more important. Each […]

    Suzette Sherman

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  • What is natural burial? (Interview)
    The manager of Fernwood Cemetery talks green burial

    Fernwood, a beautiful historic cemetery located in Mill Valley, CA, is the second cemetery in the United States to offer green burial.  SevenPonds caught up with Kathy Curry, the manager […]

    Aurora Wells

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  • “Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
    – Lao Tzu

    Aurora Wells

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  • Love and Death, Carried by Fire

    “Let not their dust be parted for their two hearts in life were singe-hearted.” — Purified by Fire Our world is always changing; and today, the scattering of cremation ashes […]

    Suzette Sherman

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  • Vadis Turner’s “Burial Party” at Manhattan’s Lyons Wier Gallery

    Vadis Turner’s “Burial Party” at Manhattan’s Lyons Wier Gallery

    Artist Vadis Turner has long specialized in re-visualizing the everyday from a subversive, feminist perspective. Her 2009 piece “Vanity: My Beautiful Education,” presented an almost violently arrayed set of sculptures, […]

    Antal Polony

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