Death and Dying

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Touched by Death and Dying

A Friend recounts sacred moments of transition between this world and the next. Marcelle Martin

New Year’s top five: The most popular articles of 2017

We’ve been sharing our most-read articles of 2017 on Facebook and Twitter. Here is the full list. #5 Mystical Experience, the… Staff
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A Simple State of Being That Never Truly Dies

Moving toward death is its own kind of expectant worship. Robert Stephen Dicken

Grief Manifesto: Linda Heacock’s Death As Told by Her Daughter

As I did some yard work for a friend, I found a dead bird in one of her beds. I… Hannah Jeffrey

Empathy

I sit quietly in meeting for worship, envisioning the Light Within and knowing that I am being held very gently… Lee Neff

A Brief Dance with Death

In October 2008 I had my first mammogram. The next day, I received a call. "There is an asymmetry on… HollyJeffries

Parting Time

The end came early and unexpectedly for my friend Sue, and in a few days I will join her family… StephenRedding

Haunting Presentations

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Into the Abyss and Back

Held in the Light: Norman Morrison’s Sacrifice for Peace and His Family’s Journey of Healing By Anne Morrison Welsh, with… Robert Dockhorn

Living Near the End of Life: Queries for the Elderly

Crosslands is one of a number of Quaker retirement communities in the Philadelphia area. In existence for over 30 years,… Brigitte Alexander

The Living Tithe

Still, I've made a step toward that goal by opening myself to transformation into someone who more deeply lives the… Chuck Hosking

The Miracle of Death

On May 10, 2006, my wife and partner of a quarter century, Deborah "Misty" Gerner, who was under treatment for… Philip Schrodt
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