Blogmersion Part 1: YouTube & Me
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Death
I See Dead People
David Horton | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living
Humans are the only animals that know about their own death? How do we know that? Not elephants, or whales, or gorillas, or dolphins, or chimps, or bears, or pigs? Are we sure?
Too Young For This: Patient of Courage Nomination
Alice Crisci | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living
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Plastic Surgery,
Courage,
Breast Cancer,
Health,
Alice,
Patient,
Cancer,
Crisci,
Death,
Life,
American Board of Facial and Reconstructive Surgery,
Living News
I recall choking out "its cancer," for the first time, two small words with a mere nine letters that bear so much weight on the human heart, few can top them. Is this what courage means?
There's A Lot Of Knock, Knock, Knockin' At Depressions Door
Stacie Krajchir | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living
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Survivor,
Ruslana Korshunova,
Suicide,
Independance Day,
Death,
The Inner Life,
Guinness Beer,
Emotional Balance,
Sepression,
Living News
Numbers, dates, times, anniversaries. These are all enemies to those who have walked though suicide, yet it is also the markers of honor and memory.
Marlene Dumas: Eros and Thanatos
Peter Clothier | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living
Who would have predicted, twenty years ago, when painting had been pronounced "dead" and figure painting deader still, that today's hottest-selling woman artist would be a painter -- and a figure painter, at that?
How To Die Gracefully
Telegraph | Posted 06.23.2008 | Living
Death got a rave review the other day. That doesn't happen often. Just off one of London's traffic thoroughfares, there was a profound little exhibiti...
Tim Russert's Eyes Were Nothing Like The Sun
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media
Tim Russert was fair-minded to the point of utterly lacking any active moral sense whatsoever. But there is one thing Tim Russert did that no other living journalist has yet done: he died.
Father's Day
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.15.2008 | Living
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Jack Abramoff,
Death,
Culture War,
Tom Brokaw,
William Kristol,
Tim Russert,
Father's Day,
Living News
On this father's day, I'm wondering what kind of men spawned the likes of William Kristol, Newt Gingrich, Jack Abramoff, Bill Bennett, Dick Cheney, and all the other crooks and liars.
Pringles Can Inventor Buried In Pringles Can
AP | Posted 06.02.2008 | Business
CINCINNATI — The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has ...
Hell on Earth? How About Hell in Heaven?
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.22.2008 | Living
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Dr. Michael Newton,
Spiritual Journey,
Near-Death Experiences,
Spirit,
Spiritual,
Life Between Life Therapy,
Spiritual Path,
God,
Afterlife,
Death,
Concetta Bertoldi,
Heaven,
Ian Stephenson,
Reincarnation,
Living News
That we'll be "greeted by loved ones" at death has become conventional wisdom, so for those who define family as people we wouldn't choose to hang with, heaven will require a significant attitude adjustment.
My Dog is Dead
Terence Smith | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living
Rooney, our elegant, black-and-white Borzoi, or Russian wolfhound, is dead. At age five. From bone cancer. A terrible conclusion, by any description. Not big news, perhaps, but it is to me.
A Death in the Family Today
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.09.2008 | Living
A creative, musical, progressive, thoughtful, mature, interesting, fun-loving, happy, athletic person; open to new adventures and ideas, putting up wi...
We Are Family!
Tom Gerdy | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living
My wife's, mother Zee died on the morning of April 10 after a relatively short battle with brain cancer. When a loved one dies, your thoughts take yo...
The Last Lecture and Living in Technicolor
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.19.2008 | Living
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Randy Pausch,
Kimberly Brooks,
The Last Lecture,
Exhibition,
Light,
Nature,
Earth,
Landscapes,
Painting,
Fine Art,
Illness,
Death,
Family,
Living News
Much has been made recently of Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture". He is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon and six months ago he was diagnosed with pancr...
Tax Time Deliberation: Married or Not?
Sara Whitman | Posted 04.08.2008 | Living
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Taxes,
LGBT Finance,
LGBT Issues,
Irs,
Finance,
Same-Sex Marriage Rights,
Parenting,
HRC,
Financial Planning,
Death,
1040e,
Same-Sex,
Same-Sex Marriage,
Lgbt,
LGBT Rights,
LGBT Couples Taxes,
Living News
As married, heterosexual couples across America pull out their tax forms, same-sex couples are slapped in the face one more time with their second-class citizenship.
Obituary: Kim Stagliano, 86, Leaves Three Autistic Children Behind
Kim Stagliano | Posted 03.31.2008 | Living
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Autism,
Death,
Vaccines,
Long Term Care,
David Simon Autism,
Causes of Autism,
Vaccines Autism,
David Simon,
Long Term Care Autism,
Leila Simon,
Living News
Who will care for my girls when Mark and I are gone? Their autism has wiped us out financially already. My beautiful girls will be at the mercy of the state.
Divine Impulses: Video Interviews
Deepak Chopra | Posted 02.29.2008 | Home
Highlights from a recent interview Sally Quinn of the Washington Post on religion, Hinduism, Christianity, death and healing. Chopra on religion, Cho...
Profiting From Death Bonds
Los Angeles Times | Marc Lifsher | Posted 02.20.2008 | Business
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Life Settlement,
Death Benefits,
Death Securities,
Death Bonds,
Life Insurance Policy,
Death,
Life Insurance Settlements,
Life Insurance Policies,
Business News
Selma Mannheim is one of a growing number of older Americans and their relatives who are taking advantage of a booming life-settlement industry that i...
What Happens When We Die
The Guardian (UK) | Rebecca Atkinson and Sarah Tavner | Posted 02.18.2008 | Living
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Dying,
Death Cremation,
Death Certificates,
Death Embalmer,
Death Pathology,
Death Burial,
Death Resomation,
Death,
Death Handlers,
Death Funeral Arrangements,
How to Arrange a Funeral,
Living News
Dr Clare Gerada General practitioner When you die, you have to have your death certified by a doctor and a death certificate or a cremation certifica...
In Honor of My Mother and the Power of Love
Norman Solomon | Posted 01.23.2008 | Living
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Economic Injustice,
Grief,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
War,
George W. Bush,
Mourning,
Workmen's Circle,
Washington Post,
Iraq,
Torture,
Death,
Living News
My mother was among the hundreds of thousands of civil-rights supporters who gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial and heard King's speech that day in 1963.
Can We Talk About Susan Sontag's Death and Then Maybe Our Own?
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 01.14.2008 | Media
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Swimming in a Sea of Death,
Public Intellectuals,
Single Mothers,
Susan Sontag Death,
Susan Sontag,
Memoir,
Susan Sontag Cancer,
Hillary Clinton,
Cancer,
David Rieff,
2008 Election,
Death,
Media News
Through her son's bold, unflinching account of her refusal to accept her "extinction," Sontag may help us begin public and private conversations about dying that are long overdue.
First Person Artist: Chris Roth To The Rescue!
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 01.12.2008 | Living
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The Inner Life,
Chris Roth,
Holy Trinity,
Religion,
Fine Art,
Jesus,
Santa Claus,
Fear,
Death,
Stained Glass,
Craft,
Living News
The fear of death is a massive subject for artists. Even the medium itself alleviates it. Almost every piece created promises to outlive us and we can enfold ourselves the warm fantasy of immortality.
LiveBlogging the Kid Nation Finale: At Last, Greg Can Go Home and Masturbate in Private
Gabriel Delahaye | Posted 12.13.2007 | Entertainment
Oh man. Did no one tell these kids that this was just a TV show? Kids, I'm sorry, there is no task force watching this in anticipation of handing the keys to society over.
Oppenheimer, Bush, and the Bomb
Justin Frank | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
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Death,
Bush,
Destroyer,
A-Bomb,
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
War With Iran,
Iran,
Atomic Bomb,
Politics News
A genuine peacemaker is aware of his destructive urges and potential. Bush is unaware of his destructive desires, of his pleasure at the possibility of destroying even more lives.
Dying Now: Green Funerals
Portland Press Herald | JOHN RICHARDSON | Posted 10.29.2007 | Living
Klara Tammany's mother didn't want a typical American funeral. No embalming, no metal casket, not even a funeral home. When she died after a long ill...
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Doug Bremner | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living