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“The Wealth of Your Life”
A handy spiral-bound booklet to prepare your ethical will in writingAn ethical will, or what I prefer to call a heart will, is perhaps the most extraordinary gift someone who is terminally ill can leave to a family member. In its simplest form, a heart will is the act of passing down ethical values from one generation to the next – typically in written form.…
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Art as a Mirror: Exploring Grief at the Met Museum
This guided event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will explore grief through art in a group discussion.The guided tour and group discussion on Sept. 27 at the Met Museum, is “a meaningful exploration of how art can illuminate and validate our personal experiences with loss.”
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26 Poetic Quotes as Symbols of Life’s End
Words of wisdom for the final journeyDeath is explored through twenty six poetic quotes as symbols of life’s end
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“Ordinary People”
Movie gives us an intimate look at a grieving family as they try to cope with loss.In Robert Redford’s 1980 directorial debut, a wealthy family deals with coping with loss as they struggle with the death of the oldest son, Buck Jarrett. “Ordinary People” explores how grief can affect people differently, as well as how losing a family member can reveal what truly happens behind closed doors. It remains an intriguing…
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Death: The “Great Equalizer”? African American Deathways and Inequality (Interview)
Death scholar and associate professor Dr. Kami Fletcher gives an interview on the history of death in the Black community.Dr. Kami Fletcher is a death scholar and associate professor of U.S. and African American history at Albright College. Her work focuses on African American deathways and deathwork, examining African American norms and ideas surrounding death as well as ways that death intersects with race, class, gender, religion, and region. Back in 2010, when Dr.…
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“Wind Phone” Provides Grievers a Chance To Call Their Loved Ones
A man set up a special phone to call his recently deceased cousin – and the idea has caught on.Little did Itaru Sasaki know that a phone he set up to use to call his deceased cousin would end up resonating with so many people. Sasaki in 2010 built a phone booth and installed it in his garden, some 300 miles northeast of Tokyo. He used the disconnected phone to talk to his cousin,…
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Research on Lithium Shows Potential To Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
A new Harvard study on mice revealed that small doses of the metal reversed symptoms.At Harvard Medical School, research scientists may have found a key ingredient that could have a major impact on ways to detect and treat Alzheimer’s disease. As a bonus, it’s a cheap and accessible metal that naturally occurs in the body and has already been used in medicine: lithium. The study, published in August in…
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“Death Canoe”
The innovative and deeply vulnerable Maggie Nelson explores the transformational nature of inescapable griefGrief flows from Maggie Nelson—as a vessel carried away by a current. Take the first lines of “Death Canoe”: “Surprised by blood passing, a large clot for morning, surprised later on in the day by the ice cold commitment to dispersal in which I am drowning.” There’s nothing neat about grief. This poem from one…
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Our Monthly Tip: Add a Personal Touch to a Cremation Ceremony
Make a cremation viewing more meaningful by bringing sentimental items to place in the casket with your loved oneOur Tip of the Month: Bring a Meaningful Object To Be Included in the Casket During the Cremation Ceremony Saying goodbye during a cremation ceremony, or cremation viewing, can feel both profound and overwhelming, and many families look for a way to make the moment more intimate. One way to do so is to place…
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