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How to Write a Eulogy… For Yourself

Here’s the latest from 30 DAYS OF INTENT! Iman and Natalie, accompanied by YouTube star Hannah Hart, visited Laurel Lewis for a lesson in death and dying. Laurel is a registered nurse who specialize…

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Death Makes Life Possible

When you are a grandparent, you will no longer be a baby, a teenager, or a young adult. So when it comes time to go to heaven, which of these people is going to show up? The person you are today i…

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What Happens After We Die?

Instead of being unknowable, perhaps the afterlife is something we haven’t looked at hard enough. And if so, why not? For one thing, the mind is addicted to repetition. We pursue the same desires…

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Wisdom from Sophy Burnham

When I was a young girl, barely in my twenties, my grandmother (then eighty-nine) turned to me. I still remember the look in her haunted eyes: "I'm so afraid of dying," she said. I didn't know what to…

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Talking About Funeral Arrangements

By Lacy Robinson, AgingCare.com. Of the many less-than-pleasant tasks a caregiver must take on, one is making arrangements for how a loved one will be remembered. Fear is often a motivating factor …

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Dying Consciously

In the West, we don’t have a tradition of conscious death. What you can do personally at this moment is to bring your awareness to the dying process, ridding it of excessive fear and anxiety. Thin…

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Halloween: A Spiritual Perspective on Death

by Michelle Gregg, Cortibutor to Sacred Living on Allthingshealing.com In just days, All Hallow's Eve will be upon us once more. There are those who believe it's a negative holiday, some because it…

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We Are Dying Every Day

One reads in many mystical traditions that every person dies at exactly the right time and knows in advance when that time is. But I would like to examine more deeply the concept of dying every day. …

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Your Body Is Like a Cloak

The monsoon rains swept down from the mountain overnight. Ramana could hear it in his sleep like warm dull thunder on the roof, or the knocking of the gods. It was loud enough to make him restless b…

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As Thoreau Lay Dying in 1862

"I never saw a man dying with so much pleasure and peace," was the remark made afterwards by one of his visitors--which recalls to mind the last words of Thoreau's last letter: "I am enjoying existenc…

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