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Burial Practices That Nourish the Earth
In this TedMed Talk by Caitlin Doughty (Ask a Mortician), she dives into greener death practices that nourish our earth. Practices like composting of the dead and natural burials on conservational burial grounds. You will also learn about the affects of cremation, how green it is, and America's current death-care ...
Continue ReadingA Growing Movement Of ‘Death Doulas’ Is Rethinking How We Die
For end-of-life doulas, accompanying the dying is anything but morbid. By Antonia Blumberg for the Huffington Post Amy Levine has sat with many dying individuals in her capacity as a hospice social worker. She’s often felt the same, uncanny feeling as the moment of death approaches. “All I can tell ...
Continue ReadingWhat I learned from 2,000 obituaries
"If more people tried living their lives to be famous in death, the world would be a much better place." - Lux Narayan Lux Narayan starts his day with scrambled eggs and the question: "Who died today?" Why? By analyzing 2,000 New York Times obituaries over a 20-month period, Narayan ...
Continue ReadingFuneral Homes 101: What You Need to Know At a Vulnerable Time
Dialogues on Living & Dying Well with guest, Rachel Zeldin Without knowledge of the options available to us, we are unable to make the best choice for ourselves and support our loved ones to make their own choices as well. -Kim Adams View the June 9th webinar series featuring I'm Sorry To ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: More to Dying Than Meets the Eye
In this TEDX Talk by Martha Atkins, she will explain deathbed phenomena and present on-going research about the topic. Accounts from the dying and bedside witnesses will be shared. Those who work with the dying are familiar with patients seeing long deceased loved ones, angelic beings, even hearing music and comforting ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: Biophysicist Discovers New Life After Death
Joyce Hawkes, PhD is a biophysicist and cell-biologist turned healer. Honored with a National Achievement Award for her work with the effects of environmental pollutants on fish cells, she is a post-doctoral Fellow with National Institutes of Health and was elected to the position of Fellow in the American Association for Advancement ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: A Good Goodbye with Gail Rubin
Don’t plan to die? Bad news – humans have a 100% mortality rate. Yet only 30% of us make end-of-life plans: wills or trusts, advance medical directives and pre-need funeral planning. That leaves 70% of us unprepared and devastated, not if, but when a death occurs. Listen to Gail Rubin ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: "Dying to be me!" TEDx Talk by Anita Moorjani
TEDX Talk by Anita Moorjani Doctors had given Anita Moorjani just hours to live when she arrived at the hospital in a coma on the morning of February 2nd, 2006. Unable to move as a result of the cancer that had ravaged her body for almost four years, Anita entered ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: The Gift of Near Death by Lewis Brown Griggs
A TEDX Talk by Lewis Brown Griggs: Why do so many of us focus on the story of our shortcomings? How can our uniqueness be recognized as the greatest gift we bring to one another? Through his lives and near deaths, Lewis Brown Griggs shares transformational perspectives on how our ...
Continue ReadingVIDEO: Life that doesn't end with death by Kelli Swazey
A TEDMed talk by Kelli Swazey In Tana Toraja, weddings and births aren't the social gatherings that knit society together. In this part of Indonesia, big, raucous funerals form the center of social life. Anthropologist Kelli Swazey takes a look at this culture, in which the bodies of dead relatives ...
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