Tag: grief
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Remembering our Dead
Recently, my family and I spent some time together for a much needed vacation. This felt like the first time in ages that we were all together for fun, and not for death, illness or surgery support. This visit also coincided with the one year death anniversary of my mom, who died on the Summer…
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Alternative Funerals
I’ve been thinking a lot lately, on how the importance of sacred rites of passage and how this might look for a home funeral and home death care. Traditionally, over the past 150 years or so, we left the dead to the funeral parlor and director who came to take the body immediately from a…
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Dying
Look how the sky’s doors open to your beauty. Look how the goddess waits to receive you. This is death. This is the life beyond life. Look how the day is breaking in the east. Look how the goddess awakens you. Listen to us singing to you, there among the stars. -Egyptian Coffin Texts Death…